Posted on 12/21/2016 8:48:16 AM PST by Navy Patriot
On Dec. 26, 1991, the Soviet Union officially ceased to exist. Its flag, with its famous hammer and sickle, was lowered outside the Kremlin at 7:32 p.m. Within a half-hour, the red, white and blue Russian flag had been raised in its place.
For almost 70 years, the totalitarian Soviet Union had curtailed the free speech and human rights of its citizens. By the late 1980s, it was painfully obvious that its economic policies had led to a dramatically lower quality of life than in the West.
But even so, few celebrated its demise.
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You’re absolutely correct.
Take a look at this upscale grocery store that they had during Gorbachev’s perestroika:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWTGsUyv8IE
-PJ
Been deep in the heartta Russia...beyond the tourist places in Moscow. Very sad those people live that way...they’re very nice people in general.
The USSR successfully infiltrated every Federal agency,most are still in very senior positions.
The Left has never forgiven the Russians for ditching Communism.
"Uzbeks - They are the weak link in the Great Chain of Socialism."
Many Russians don’t think of Stalin as a Communist, they think of him more as an “Ivan the Terrible” type. The Iron Fist that ruled the country. That doesn’t necessarily mean they want to bring back Communism.
A fact I lament every April 15th.
Uzbeks proudly told me their most admired historical figures were all conquerors; Tamerlaine, Temujin [Genghis Khan], and Aleksandr Makedonskii [Alexander the Great]. But oh how they hated their dictator, the late Islam Karimov.
BINGO!, true and another very important post (and fact).
Soviet shills include Obama's maternal grandparents (Stanley Dunham).
There are a whole bunch of people who lament the loss of the USSR and its allies. When the wall was up, we knew who our enemy was and stood shoulder to shoulder to keep him from gaining an inch of the free world.
The left got money from the Soviets. Now they don’t.
BINGO!, another pointed response and true fact.
So many FReepers are on the ball!!
Thanks Navy. And congratulations on being new and improved.
Thank you for your service.
Nobody over here in the US misses the Soviet Union -- apart from the tiny CPUSA clique. Younger people have forgotten the USSR existed or never knew it to begin with. Come to think of it, young Russians may not really understand what the Soviet system was actually like, and that's why they miss it.
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