Posted on 05/12/2015 6:16:00 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A few of them got the zot already, but mainly because they got abusive. They do seem to turn abusive unilaterally when anyone questions the line they’re pushing, though.
Why would Stalin, from Tbilisi, have any “patriotism” for Moscow? He was an internationalist-type Communist even in spite of his “socialism in one country” publicized theories, which actually showed a tendency towards national socialism just to keep the people in relatively good spirits.
Communist one-party states are kleptocracies first and foremost.
But, as Mikhail Leontiyev, commentator for Russia's state-controlled Channel One television, recently noted, repeating a phrase popular among the siloviki: "Americans got so drunk at the USSR's funeral that they're still hung over." And stumbling around in their post-inebriation haze, many of these Americans have only recently begun noticing that they had prematurely written the KGB's epitaph, even as it was arising vampire-like from the coffin.
My grandfather left Russia in 1923, leaving behind 5 siblings and his parents. Fast forward to 1994 - one of my grandfather's nephews (my dad's first cousin) got out. I asked him what it was like to be done with the Communists, and he responded, "Same wall, different wallpaper." We all now understand what that means - Soviet Communism was not a successful brand, so the Company's owners have tossed that brand aside and come out with the same exact product in a more acceptable-looking package.
I agree. I don’t get it. It’s like letting the KKK post here. That’d never happen. Yet for some reason now that Putin poses as putative conservative his fan club gets to post here.
Putin pretends to be a conservative and a christian, so the dumb and dumber buy in.
OH, oh, oh, the Russians collaborated with the Nazis.
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