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Solzhenitsin slams West policy towards Russia
Voice of Russia ^
| 25.07.2007
| Voice of Russia
Posted on 07/26/2007 5:43:10 AM PDT by JohnA
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posted on
07/26/2007 5:43:10 AM PDT
by
JohnA
To: JohnA
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is a Slavophile. He has no love for the decadent West and he thinks his country being held to impossible standards. It will take Russia decades to emerge from the wreckage of Communism.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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posted on
07/26/2007 5:46:35 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: goldstategop
“he thinks his country being held to impossible standards”
What - is it too much to ask to not arm the Muslims who are killing our boys in the middle east - or to arm Iran with Nukes.
I don’t think you belong here.
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posted on
07/26/2007 5:51:04 AM PDT
by
spanalot
To: JohnA
Russia is only starting to build democracy and it's all too easy to take it to task with a long list of omissions, violations and mistakes. Mr Solzhenitsyn,the things that Putin is saying and doing can *NOT* be classified as "mistakes".Read the newspapers once in a while.Putin has brought the gulag to London (was it plutonium?) and he's also brought it to Ukraine (bringing Ukraine's communication system to a standstill).
Wake up and smell the vodka,friend....Putin is not the friend of anyone,*anywhere*,who values freedom,democracy and openness.
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posted on
07/26/2007 5:51:29 AM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(If martyrdom is so cool,why does Osama Obama go to such great lengths to avoid it?)
To: JohnA
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posted on
07/26/2007 5:52:23 AM PDT
by
spanalot
To: AdmSmith
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posted on
07/26/2007 5:56:01 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
([there are bad people in the pistachio business] (...but his head is so tiny...))
To: JohnA
I think Russia is on a track to nowhere fast.
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posted on
07/26/2007 5:57:30 AM PDT
by
yldstrk
(My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
To: Gay State Conservative
Putin is an autocrat. That doesn't make him a friend of the West. Russia has more or less reverted to the Soviet period except now nationalism rather than Communism is the source of its aggressive designs on Europe and elsewhere. Solzhenitsyn doesn't see this since he has a blind worship of Russia's government. A democracy isn't built by repressing internal dissent and murdering your own enemies abroad. The Slavophiles imagine they're bringing about freedom. In fact, they're helping to bring into being its exact opposite.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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posted on
07/26/2007 5:59:52 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: Gay State Conservative
The trouble with chatboards is that nobody holds posters like you to the facts.
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posted on
07/26/2007 6:09:02 AM PDT
by
JohnA
To: yldstrk
You are entitled to an opinion. You should also take into account the opinions of others who may embarrass you.
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posted on
07/26/2007 6:10:17 AM PDT
by
JohnA
To: goldstategop
Russians were dominated by authoritarians for centuries before the Bolsheviks came along. Paranoia is in their DNA.
To: JohnA
I think I need to read the Der Spiegel article before commenting
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posted on
07/26/2007 6:12:56 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
([there are bad people in the pistachio business] (...but his head is so tiny...))
To: JohnA
For a guy that was so critical of the Communists in the past, Solzhenitsyn sure gets fired up when the west doesn’t trust a “former” KGB agent? I wonder why he defends old Putin so much?
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posted on
07/26/2007 6:15:58 AM PDT
by
caver
(Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
To: nuconvert
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posted on
07/26/2007 6:17:47 AM PDT
by
JohnA
To: caver
You make too much of a credential you fail to expand upon.
What, in your view, was Putin's job with the KGB. Please fill us in.
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posted on
07/26/2007 6:20:18 AM PDT
by
JohnA
To: Eric in the Ozarks
I suppose if you’d have been invaded a few times, and you took heavy hits, you’d be a little paranoid too. Instead, you have two very valuable allies ...always. These are called the Atlantic and the Pacific.
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posted on
07/26/2007 6:22:21 AM PDT
by
JohnA
To: spanalot
So exactly WHAT is your problem here?
Not everything “Russian” is bad.
You might try visiting the country someday.
There ARE things we could learn from them.
To: Eric in the Ozarks
The Russian people are also the most SPIRITUAL on this earth. (In spite of Communist attempts to destroy that aspect).
To: JohnA
“You make too much of a credential you fail to expand upon.
What, in your view, was Putin’s job with the KGB. Please fill us in.”
What are you talking about? Are you trying to deny that Putin is a “former” KGB agent? And what am I trying to make too much of? Once a Communist, always a Communist.
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posted on
07/26/2007 6:26:43 AM PDT
by
caver
(Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
To: caver
I wonder why he defends old Putin so much? He's damn near ninty, that and the poor nutrition he received in the prison camps have probably eroded his thinking capacity considerably.
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posted on
07/26/2007 6:27:25 AM PDT
by
hunter112
(Change will happen when very good men are forced to do very bad things.)
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