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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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To: wetphoenix

Khrushchev was an ethnic Russian, who was Moscow’s man in the Ukraine in the 1940s.


21 posted on 04/20/2014 6:01:45 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: RayChuang88
Stalin was just starting another major purge at the time of his death.

Beria caught wind of it, and poisoned Stalin, allegedly, he told the rest of the Politburo, which was going to be purged, along with Beria himself, "I saved all of you."

22 posted on 04/20/2014 6:03:37 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: luvbach1

Hitler was perhaps the biggest Socialist monster. He was the only person in history to ever give Communism something they’ve never had before or since- The Moral High Ground.


23 posted on 04/20/2014 6:06:20 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople (Nothing is more savage and brutal than justifiably angry Americans. DonÂ’t believe me? Ask the Germa)
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To: MuttTheHoople

Good point in your post #23.


24 posted on 04/20/2014 6:08:45 AM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished)
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To: dfwgator

True, I was probably fooled by his habit to wear Ukrainian national dress and his overall connection to Ukraine. Anyway he has moved to Ukraine as a 15 yo and started his career there.


25 posted on 04/20/2014 6:18:06 AM PDT by wetphoenix
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To: wetphoenix

In Soviet Union, Ukrainians were fellow “Homo Sovieticus” with the Russians. They tried to eliminate all notions of nationalism.


26 posted on 04/20/2014 6:37:27 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: SeeSharp

I don’t know what you are talking about, the commies have absolutely nothing to do with it


27 posted on 04/20/2014 6:52:49 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin

The errors may convey that it was not “official”.

It’s very existence shows a dangerous mindset, too close to the front lines to be ignored.


28 posted on 04/20/2014 7:50:00 AM PDT by G Larry (There's the Beef!)
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To: dfwgator

Didn’t do Beria much good, huh?

The NKVD had gotten WAY too powerful by then, and Beria was a notorious sexual pervert, so the rest of the Politburo had him accused of spying and shot not long after Stalin died.


29 posted on 04/20/2014 9:04:52 AM PDT by Kodos the Executioner (.. the revolution is successful, but survival depends upon drastic measures..")
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To: Kaslin
I don’t know what you are talking about, the commies have absolutely nothing to do with it

Actually, I think you don't know what you are talking about. You asked for an example of some good deed done by the Russians after the murder of the Tsar. I gave you one - unless you are going to say the Soviets don't count as Russians. And it was Russian communists who killed the Tsar in the first place. So yes, the commies had a lot to do with it.

30 posted on 04/20/2014 9:15:25 AM PDT by SeeSharp
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Pol Pot killed 2.5 million

FYI do you know how they did it? Killed more than a quarter of their own population? We have that movie, The Killing Fields, where masses of people are killed by suffocation, but that's drama. You can't really kill millions of people by putting plastic baggies on their heads. The Khmer Rouge was always a small minority and too much overt killing would have produced a rebellion.

The Khmer Rouge abolished money. The elimination of money caused a complete collapse in the social division of labor. Without pricing every sort of production became grossly inefficient. Agriculture was no exception, and most of the people who died simply died of starvation and starvation related diseases.

31 posted on 04/20/2014 9:30:13 AM PDT by SeeSharp
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To: cripplecreek

Given that China’s poulation was around 600,000,000 that would be about 13% for Mao ... Still, Mao’s 76M high body pile would be far higher the Pot’s meager 2,000,000 ... Just a rounding error for Mao.


32 posted on 04/20/2014 10:35:42 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Hardastarboard

Preaching to the choir ...


33 posted on 04/20/2014 10:36:26 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Kozak

Khrushchev was born in Russia. His father later got a job in Ukraine and the family moved there.


34 posted on 04/20/2014 2:52:41 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus (ADES)
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