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Maybe Russians Should Apologize for the 20th Century First
Townhall.com ^ | April 20, 2014 | John Ransom

Posted on 04/20/2014 4:11:44 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 04/20/2014 4:11:45 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Marx wasn’t Russian to start with.
Lenin was a German intelligence agent as well.
Stalin was Georgian.
Khruschev and Brezhnev were Ukrainians.
Well, finally Gorbachev was Russian. Let him apologize.


2 posted on 04/20/2014 4:17:23 AM PDT by wetphoenix
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To: Kaslin

The ADL and the Chief Rabbi of the Ukrainian town where the leaflets appeared both seem to be blaming Kiev and it has people worried. Could it be the “good guys” put out the leaflets to make the Eastern Ukraine protesters look bad?


3 posted on 04/20/2014 4:22:51 AM PDT by icwhatudo (Low taxes and less spending in Sodom and Gomorrah is not my idea of a conservative victory)
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To: Kaslin

During the reign of Josef Stalin, essentially unfettered mass shootings, labor camps, forced exile and deliberate famine killed so many people in the Soviet Union that the death toll was just stunning—43 to 60 million plus may not be far from the truth. If Stalin had just lived two years longer, we could have added several million more—Stalin was just starting another major purge at the time of his death.


4 posted on 04/20/2014 4:32:52 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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Mao Tse-Tung is the champ here with 76,702,000 to his ‘credit’. Given a few more years maybe he could have topped 100M ...


5 posted on 04/20/2014 4:57:45 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Kaslin
Blame the commies. We have one in the White Hut. He likes to apologize for everything.
6 posted on 04/20/2014 5:04:50 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: PIF

Percentages matter. Pol Pot took out a full 20% of the Cambodian population.


7 posted on 04/20/2014 5:12:38 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: PIF; RayChuang88
Read "Death by Government" by RJ Rummel (cited in the article) or "The Black Book of Communism". Those books spell out how many people "Progressives" have murdered throughout history.

When you hear someone say "From my cold, dead, hands", that's just what "Progressives" have in mind.

8 posted on 04/20/2014 5:18:13 AM PDT by Hardastarboard (Please excuse the potholes in this tagline. Social programs have to take priority in our funding.)
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To: Kaslin
Seriously, name one Russian accomplishment that has helped the world since y'all killed the Czar and his family, who by the way, was one of the finest Russians your country ever produced.

The eradication of small pox was a Soviet project carried out under the UN banner.

Can't think of anything else.

9 posted on 04/20/2014 5:22:01 AM PDT by SeeSharp
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Well, finally Gorbachev was Russian. Let him apologize.

LOL. Gorbachev was half Ukrainian.

10 posted on 04/20/2014 5:29:27 AM PDT by SeeSharp
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To: Kaslin

Has the Russian army ever liberated anyone? I’m drawing a blank.


11 posted on 04/20/2014 5:30:51 AM PDT by BillyBonebrake
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To: wetphoenix

Krushchev was NOT Ukrainian. He was one one of those Russians who spoke Russian born on Ukrainian territory so in vogue these days. He says so HIMSELF in his autobiography:

“In his memoirs he remembered his time there with special warmth: ‘I myself am a Russian and wouldn’t want to ·slight the Russian people, but 1 must attribute our success in the restoration of Ukrainian agriculture and the reconstruction of Ukrainian industry to the Ukrainian people themselves.’

He also comments in his autobiography that his internal passport was marked Russian under nationality.

Brezhnev was also an ethnic Russian born on Ukrainian territory
“Brezhnev was born in Kamenskoe into a Russian worker’s family”
(Although he identified himself as Ukrainian until 1952 when he changed it to Russian)

And F ing Russians are welcome to both those monsters as well as the original monster Lenin.If the Revolution hadn’t gained power in St Petersburg and Moscow the Soviet Union would never have happened.


12 posted on 04/20/2014 5:34:43 AM PDT by Kozak ("It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal" Henry Kissinger)
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and Mao-tse, 60+ million dead, too!
...upwards towards 110+ million deaths/murders! in the last century..and it's coming here.
"One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic." - Joseph Stalin

Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/joseph_stalin.html#9MxZg3Fb0sKLFEhj.99


13 posted on 04/20/2014 5:35:11 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. Cattlegate..0'Caligula / 0'Reid? ;-)
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To: wetphoenix
Don't forget Trotsky, who returned from Brooklyn to Russia AFTER the abdication of the Tsar in March 1917 and the free elections in April 1917. Lenin,who was of German ancestry, had been living in Switzerland for the previous 10 years 1907-1917.

The Bolsheviks were composed of an international conspiracy of an estimated 35,000 terrorists who flooded in from around the world in order to overthrow the elected government (and thereby commit treason during wartime against the Russian people).

The author of this diatribe probably is ignorant of the fact that related Communist groups ALSO overthrew the government and seized power in Hungary, Bavaria (Munich), and made serious efforts in Vienna and other German-speaking cities
http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/museum/his1h.htm
-- which of course proves that Russians had nothing to do with them since they were conducted by locals of those countries.

"The Russians" have absolutely nothing to apologize to the world for. They were just the first and greatest victims of a demonic force unleashed upon the world.

14 posted on 04/20/2014 5:37:08 AM PDT by wildandcrazyrussian
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To: Kozak

~HIMSELF in his autobiography:

“In his memoirs he remembered his time there with special warmth: ‘I myself am a Russian and wouldn’t want to ·slight the Russian people, but 1 must attribute our success in the restoration of Ukrainian agriculture and the reconstruction of Ukrainian industry to the Ukrainian people themselves.’

He also comments in his autobiography that his internal passport was marked Russian under nationality.

Brezhnev was also an ethnic Russian born on Ukrainian territory “Brezhnev was born in Kamenskoe into a Russian worker’s family” (Although he identified himself as Ukrainian until 1952 when he changed it to Russian)~

Being a Russian was more prestigious at the time and Russia was the most populous state in the Union. Claiming a Russian heritage was their way to campaign. Both were culturally Ukrainian, especially Khrushchev.


15 posted on 04/20/2014 5:40:40 AM PDT by wetphoenix
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To: BillyBonebrake
Has the Russian army ever liberated anyone? I’m drawing a blank.

They "liberated" Germany from Hitler?

16 posted on 04/20/2014 5:44:41 AM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished)
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To: cripplecreek; All
Percentages matter. Pol Pot took out a full
20% of the Cambodian population.
thought it was more than that..1 out of 3,...
Liberal are feckless, They blamed US(A) for these slaughters.
The only liberal; I can respect is Folk Singer, Joan Beaz,
(of "They Drove Old Dixie Down" fame)
she (bitterly) railed against these slaughters. She became,
Persona non Grata in liberals circles.

17 posted on 04/20/2014 5:53:48 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. Cattlegate..0'Caligula / 0'Reid? ;-)
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To: Kaslin

While there were victims of communism, most Russians were either indifferent or active supporters and collaborators, including the Russian Orthodox Church, which has never been anything but an arm of the state.


18 posted on 04/20/2014 5:55:31 AM PDT by Clemenza (Lurking)
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To: Hardastarboard
Thank You, Very much...I was looking for that source.

19 posted on 04/20/2014 5:55:46 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. Cattlegate..0'Caligula / 0'Reid? ;-)
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According to Wiki, Pol Pot killed 2.5 million out of a population of about 8 million.


20 posted on 04/20/2014 5:58:25 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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