Posted on 08/09/2014 8:30:12 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
OK you can stop right there. They don't call it Pravda anymore (I think) but really, believe anything that comes out of those countries "news organizations" and you probably are in some way related to either or .
Why is it that the Russian people have allowed themselves to be ruled by savages for the last couple of hundred years?
Will they let me travel to Vladivostok?
Yes
No papers?
No papers
Those who followed were savages. However you should consider their way of doing business. If you were an entrepreneur or excelled in something or were in opposition to the regime, you were killed. If you were a successful farmer, you were killed. They killed off the best and the brightest by the millions. Many others simply left, and are still leaving for better opportunities.
You would expect that the ones left over are somewhat more docile, since the gene pool has been sanitized of counter revolutionaries. A text book case of how to turn a population into obedient followers.
It is the new APPARENT class submarine.
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