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Posted on 07/25/2014 11:10:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
No. His body count isn’t that high—yet.
It seems that Pat believes that FDR’s friendliness and appeasement toward Stalin set the standard by which US-Russia relations should be measured today.
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Hey sparky, VK is Russian Facebook.
Lol. .. hashtag fact
> Your dislike of Obama has hopefully only temporarily caused you to lose your perspective.
And what makes you think he’s going to leave? There are reports from credible sources that martial law signs are being shipped and stored at different locations that aren’t Snopes rumors which have been debunked. These reports are from credible people directly out of their mouths not posted Internet hoax rumors. I realize that could be done initially as a propaganda measure due to the Wizard of Oz administration we have in place to cause fear but it’s still best to pay attention. They’re both tyrants just different ruling styles.
> We are being primed for war. Zero’s legacy will be WWW3.
And many politicians’ coffers will be overflowing due to their influence on getting military contracts approved...
Girkin bragged that they shot the plane down before he knew it was a civilian airliner, then after he found out he removed the post. He’s cold busted. You can try to deny it but the whole world knows what the Russky savages did.
Lol
Writer yo be trippin!
Obama has done more damage to the USA than Putin.
As for the downing of the Malaysian airliner, Putin did not order that. Sen. John Cornyn says U.S. intelligence has not yet provided any “smoking gun” that ties the missile-firing to Russia.
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Whoa. That’s not going to go over well here.
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Before we get too upset about Putin’s supplying missiles to the rebels who pressed their buttons, we need to find out how ISIS is getting its weapons in Iraq and Syria. There have been reports about American weapons ending up in terrorist hands.
~My concern is that zer0 is up there with Stalin hitler and Mao. We are in a world of hurt. We are being invaded in the south and our dear leader is out there fund raising.~
In defense of Stalin, when the Japanese started this crap on his south border in 1930s he hurt them so badly that they rejected any plea from Hitler to help him out in Russia later.
So you guys still defend Stalin, that is why most of us here think you haven’t changed, and never will.
You seems to be the most anal person I ever met, Ansel. I have never defended Stalin, I just find comparison between Stalin and Obama on border issues ridiculous. Isn’t it?
I'm surprised your people still defend him, would you say that most of the people in your section of Russia have fond memories of him or despise him?
Scholastics much, Ansel?
I think there is a group of some 70 yo admirers, these same idiots gathering around Lenin statues. Some liberal teenage jerks emerged among these idiots, same type which wears Che Guevara shirts in the West. The rest (majority) population takes Stalin for what he is. Gulag Archipelago by Soljenitsyn is part of a school program since mid 1980s in Russia.
I was just judging from your post interjecting a defense of Stalin, and polling of your nation.
“The Carnegie report, released Friday, was based on the first-ever comparative opinion polls in Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. It found that support for Stalin in Russia has actually increased since the Soviet collapse.
The report concluded that attitudes toward Stalin have improved during President Vladimir Putin’s 13-year rule, as the Kremlin has found Stalin’s image useful in its efforts to tighten control.”
“Lev Gudkov, a sociologist at the Levada Center, which conducted the survey, noted that in 1989, the peak of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s efforts to liberalize the country and expose Stalinist crimes, only 12 percent of Russians polled described Stalin as one of the most prominent historical figures.
In the Carnegie poll last year, 42 percent of Russian respondents named Stalin as the most influential historical figure.
“Vladimir Putin’s Russia of 2012 needs symbols of authority and national strength, however controversial they may be, to validate the newly authoritarian political order,” Gudkov wrote in the Carnegie report. “Stalin, a despotic leader responsible for mass bloodshed but also still identified with wartime victory and national unity, fits this need for symbols that reinforce the current political ideology.”
Putin has avoided open public praise or criticism of Stalin, but he has restored Soviet-era symbols and focused on the nation’s Soviet-era achievements rather than Stalinist crimes. Kremlin critics have seen attempts to whitewash Stalin’s image as part of Putin’s rollback on democracy.
Many in Russia have been dismayed by government-sponsored school textbooks that paint Stalin in a largely positive light and by a reconstruction of Kurskaya metro station that restored old Soviet national anthem lyrics praising Stalin.”
~I was just judging from your post interjecting a defense of Stalin, and polling of your nation.~
Well
Do you realize that the term ‘defense’ has different meaning. All I have told is Stalin had better border control than Obama. Am I factually wrong or what?
~“Lev Gudkov, a sociologist at the Levada Center, which conducted the survey, noted that in 1989, the peak of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s efforts to liberalize the country and expose Stalinist crimes, only 12 percent of Russians polled described Stalin as one of the most prominent historical figures.
In the Carnegie poll last year, 42 percent of Russian respondents named Stalin as the most influential historical figure~
It us all taken out of context. Do you realize a difference between being ‘an influential figure’ and ‘nice person’? I An author of your cite obviously aren’t. On the other hand he simply has an agenda.
Stalin was influential figure for sure. It wasn’t all that good influence but it is another question.
(Reuters) - Soviet dictator Josef Stalin was voted Russia’s third most popular historical figure in a nationwide poll that ended on Sunday, despite the famine and purges that marked his rule.
The “Name of Russia” contest run by Rossiya state television channel over more than six months closed on Sunday night with a final vote via the Internet and mobile phones. It drew more than 50 million votes in a nation of 143 million.
Millions of Soviet citizens perished from famine during forced collectivization, were executed as “enemies of the people” or died in Gulag hard labor camps during Stalin’s rule which lasted for almost 30 years until his death in 1953.
“We now have to think very seriously, why the nation chooses to put Josef Vissarionovich Stalin in third place,” prominent actor and film director Nikita Mikhalkov, one of the contest’s judges, said after the results of the vote flashed on a screen.
Is popular = nice to you?
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