Posted on 08/14/2018 12:39:34 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
> Being anti-the current political incantation of Russia is not the same as being anti-Russian.
If you’re an American, it’s none of your business how Russia handles its internal affairs. Those who think it is are just the kind of troublemakers the American people rejected in Clinton and Bush.
If you’re not American, then you got some nerve trying to convince Americans to be anti-Russian.
You’re not fooling anyone - everyone knows that the people who are on an anti-Russia jihad right now are the Clinton crowd and the Deep State crowd, and are no friends of Americans.
Not sure what you mean by not fully denouncing Stalin, Lenin, Communism, the USSR, and the real and actual harm done to hundreds of millions of people throughout the world. Do not forget the effect that Mao had in China and what communism has done to Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. No rational , reflective, decent person can fail to see the harm and tragedy.
Yet history, its lessons and consequences must be analyzed without the blinders of political correctness or the passionate wishing that actual events were not what they were.
Stalin was alcoholic, paranoid, cruel and murderous. Yet he once held power, made decisions, inspired others ( through fear and other means.) His legacy continues to affect our times. It continues to affect us the way the Kaiser and Hitler’s decisions to wage wars in 1914 and 1945 that fundamentally altered Western culture continues to affect us. Best to understand these people,study their actions and motivations however bad they were, and interpret them objectively if we hope to understand our current state and the immediate future.
Is you’re going to post crap from EuroZine, at least inform people that it’s a Soros neo-fascist rag that’s a propaganda tool for the EU deep state.
Evil and tragedy should inspire compassion for the victims and passion for their memory and its lessons. Especially if they affected your families directly as they did in Russia.
What you call 'objective' I call bureaucratic soullessness and apathy. People --even dead people, are not expendable statistics as Stalin would have had you believe.
Postponed grief over Soviet trauma is a problem in Russia and directly impacts the country's psyche. Hence the alcoholism, high male mortality, and other social ills. PTSD operates in nations as well as inviduals. Denial, as Putin's govt promotes, only makes things worse.
When people post articles here Newsweak or Washington Compost or NY Slimes on an array of topics, I don’t see you complaining. You’re just mad I don’t like Putin.
“You’re just mad I don’t like Putin.”
No, I’m just mad because you’re a Soros troll.
Your love for EuroZine has a stack of Soros garbage:
Example -
Orbán’s assault on academic freedom | Eurozine
https://www.eurozine.com/orbans-assault-on-academic-freedom/
Apr 5, 2017 - The CEU, which embodies the liberal spirit of its founder George Soros, is an attractive place to study for masters and doctoral students in the ...
Example -
The European project and the case for Remain | Eurozine
https://www.eurozine.com/the-european-project-and-the-case-for-remain/
Jun 9, 2016 - Apart from the outstanding efforts of George Soros’s Open Society Institute and Foundation, whose contribution to defending the civilization of ...
This is deep state EU propaganda, troll.
I should not engage with a Stalinist, but EuroZine is no more or less liberal than our mainstream publications.
And I have posted pro-Hungary stuff as well as pro-Brexit..... Polish and other Eastern European media is anti-Soros and also anti-Putin. Get over yourself.
“I should not engage with a Stalinist, but EuroZine is no more or less liberal than our mainstream publications.”
And I should not engage with a neo-Nazi Soros troll. I asked that you ID EuroZone as a Soros propaganda vehicle. Do you work for EuroZone? Or do you just spread the fascist EU manure?
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