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The Day Frozen Pudding-Pops Destroyed Boris Yeltsin's Faith in Communism
Reaganite Republican ^ | 09 April 2015 | Reaganite Republican

Posted on 04/09/2015 10:19:06 AM PDT by Reaganite Republican

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21 posted on 04/09/2015 10:48:36 AM PDT by GeronL (CLEARLY CRUZ 2016)
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To: SpeakerToAnimals

‘Medved’ Chevrolet?

Must have struck him that that was Russian-American owned, too... made him think of what is possible here

The Soviets sure gave those people the mushroom treatment, even VIPs and Politburo members had no idea what it was like over here in the States


22 posted on 04/09/2015 10:48:53 AM PDT by Reaganite Republican
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To: Reaganite Republican

From “One, Two, Three”.......

Peripetchikoff: No formula, NO DEAL!
C.R. MacNamara: OK, NO DEAL!
Borodenko: We do not need you! If we want Coca-cola, we invent it ourselves!
C.R. MacNamara: Oh, yeah? In 1956 you flew a bottle of Coke to a secret laboratory in Sverdlosk. A dozen of your top chemists went nuts trying to analyze the ingredients. Right?
Mishkin: No comment!
C.R. MacNamara: And in 1958, you planted two undercover agents in Atlanta to steal the formula. And what happened? They both defected! And now they’re successful businessmen in Florida packaging instant borscht. Right?
Peripetchikoff: No comment!
C.R. MacNamara: Last year you put out a cockamamie imitation “Kremlin-kola!” You tried it out in the satellite countries, but even the Albanians wouldn’t drink it. They used it for SHEEP DIP! RIGHT?
Mishkin: No comment!
C.R. MacNamara: So either get down to business or get off the pot!


23 posted on 04/09/2015 10:49:58 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Regulator

even North Korea is now faking it, trying to pretend to have coffee shops and burger places (only the favored few can afford them, of course) Potemkin village stuff to show the foreigners.


24 posted on 04/09/2015 10:51:05 AM PDT by GeronL (CLEARLY CRUZ 2016)
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To: SpeakerToAnimals
He wanted to know how the government got all this food into a little mountain town

And you told him that the government didn't do it!

25 posted on 04/09/2015 10:51:57 AM PDT by GeronL (CLEARLY CRUZ 2016)
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To: Alex Murphy

Exceptional? Today’s NYT thinks we’re the pits.

Yet let’s get real. All this hasn’t benefited all Americans. A newly released global index finds that America falls short, along with other powerful countries, on what matters most: assuring a high quality of life for ordinary citizens.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/opinion/nicholas-kristof-enjoying-the-low-life.html


26 posted on 04/09/2015 10:53:25 AM PDT by sparklite2
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To: Reaganite Republican

We hosted a group of business and political people from Russia In Wisconsin several years ago and we took them to Old World Wisconsin, an historic area recreated on how Wisconsin citizens lived in the late 19 century.

They indicated that many still lived in similar circumstances in Russia.


27 posted on 04/09/2015 10:53:27 AM PDT by ADSUM
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To: Reaganite Republican

The first time I went to a “Randall’s”, I was pretty darn impressed myself....Nice stores!!


28 posted on 04/09/2015 10:55:00 AM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Reaganite Republican

I too am infinitely more impressed with supermarkets than with NASA.


29 posted on 04/09/2015 10:56:14 AM PDT by all the best
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To: Vigilanteman

Absolute obedience to the state is a leftist wet dream.

North Korea would be a dream come true for them.


30 posted on 04/09/2015 10:56:37 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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31 posted on 04/09/2015 10:56:53 AM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
I enjoyed his memoir years ago.

32 posted on 04/09/2015 10:57:49 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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To: Reaganite Republican

I remember an interview with kid from the Soviet Union, Walter Polovchek, who did not want to go back to the Soviet Union with his parents. What opened his eyes was when he went to an American supermarket and saw an entire aisle filled with a wide variety of dog food.


33 posted on 04/09/2015 10:57:59 AM PDT by forgotten man
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To: all the best

did they really think a massive GOVERNMENT boondoggle would be more impressive than a show of free market capitalism?


34 posted on 04/09/2015 10:58:43 AM PDT by GeronL (CLEARLY CRUZ 2016)
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To: Reaganite Republican
Medved Chevrolet is on I-70 west of Denver. It is huge. The conversation was interesting. When I told him there were dozens of car dealers like that he asked what we did with all those cars. I told him to look around. Bumper to bumper traffic everywhere.

After a day of dashing through the snow we went to a steak house. He thought he was being given the honor of dividing the steak for everybody. Then ours showed up. He could not believe everybody got a huge slab of beast.

35 posted on 04/09/2015 10:58:49 AM PDT by SpeakerToAnimals (I hope to earn a name in battle)
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To: Regulator; Vigilanteman
They'd love it. Never leave.

Then what are we waitin' for?! Start sendin' 'em over!

36 posted on 04/09/2015 10:58:59 AM PDT by uglybiker (nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-BATMAN!)
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To: GeronL

It took a few tries but we convinced him that Safeway did it in spite of the government. He then said our government was just like Russia but we did not let them do anything.


37 posted on 04/09/2015 11:01:25 AM PDT by SpeakerToAnimals (I hope to earn a name in battle)
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To: sparklite2
Exceptional? Today’s NYT thinks we’re the pits. Yet let’s get real. All this hasn’t benefited all Americans. A newly released global index finds that America falls short, along with other powerful countries, on what matters most: assuring a high quality of life for ordinary citizens.

"Gentlemen, we must not allow a pudding-pop gap!"

38 posted on 04/09/2015 11:02:58 AM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: Alex Murphy; SpeakerToAnimals; All
--back during the Nixon years-(early '70's, Leadville, Colorado was on of the stops on a transcontinental bus trip of mid-level Russian bureaucrats , husbands and wives (the USSR had started letting trusted people out without hostages at home)--

--I have always been convinced that trips like that infected, so to speak , the Russian government with people who had seen that there was a world out there better than what they had---

39 posted on 04/09/2015 11:03:17 AM PDT by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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To: Reaganite Republican
In office less than nine years and plagued by severe health problems, Mr. Yeltsin added a final chapter to his historical record when, in a stunning coup at the close of the 20th century, he announced his resignation, and became the first Russian leader to relinquish power on his own in accordance with constitutional processes. He then turned over the reins of office to his handpicked successor, Vladimir V. Putin.

Thanks alot Yeltsin.

40 posted on 04/09/2015 11:07:03 AM PDT by McGruff (Ask yourself, what would Rick Grimes do?)
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