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History's Losers: intimate stories from survivors of the Soviet empire
New Statesman ^ | Catherine Merridale

Posted on 11/15/2017 11:01:55 AM PST by GoldenState_Rose

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To: Rashputin

“Never underestimate the ability of average Americans turn into deaf, dumb, and blind, mutes by a thriving economy.”

Hmm...this is most definitely a human nature thing, not just an American thing...

Things are pretty bad right now: 64,000 Americans dead in one year from opiate/drug overdoses alone. Don’t get me started on the mass shooting epidemic.

We must take up spiritual armor against the forces of darkness. Our lives depend on it now, not just our economic well-being.

BUT let’s also be reminded: hundreds and hundreds of abortion clinics have shut down. PRAISE. GOD. These victories should not go unnoticed.

JUDGMENT BEGINS WITH THE HOUSE OF GOD. as Saint Peter reminds us. The situation in our country, our world is a wake-up call. It doesn’t require millions of people to bring about change. Just a few brave, godly souls who won’t give up.


21 posted on 11/15/2017 1:24:30 PM PST by GoldenState_Rose
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To: GoldenState_Rose

Is this about the Soviets or the US Democrat Party?


22 posted on 11/15/2017 1:28:10 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: <1/1,000,000th%

The modern US Democratic Party can trace their roots back to the Soviets/Bolsheviks.


23 posted on 11/15/2017 1:32:00 PM PST by GoldenState_Rose
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Hahaha.

The system was so effective for so long that even after November 2016, when the Hillary! collapsed, liberals wandered amid its wreckage like the recently bereft, haunted by the only set of values they had ever known.


24 posted on 11/15/2017 1:36:16 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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Wow. Fitting indeed.


25 posted on 11/15/2017 1:38:00 PM PST by GoldenState_Rose
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Oh, I see positive things and even positive trends, just like I did in the eighties. Like I say, we’ll see.


26 posted on 11/15/2017 1:39:36 PM PST by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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History ebbs and flows and will do so till the return of Christ.


27 posted on 11/15/2017 2:50:59 PM PST by GoldenState_Rose
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There's also the little tidbit, "God is not mocked" but we live in a nation that thrives on mocking God whether it's the non-Christian crowd defaming Christ or the "Christian" crowd going along to get along.

Ebb and flow has included the fall of nations and empires and will again. We'll see.

28 posted on 11/15/2017 5:22:10 PM PST by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: GoldenState_Rose

bkmk


29 posted on 11/22/2017 8:29:24 AM PST by AllAmericanGirl44
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Great holiday reading. Here is the correct link: https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2016/12/historys-losers-intimate-stories-survivors-soviet-empire

The book is “Secondhand Time” by Svetlana Alexievich.

Winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize for Lit.


30 posted on 11/22/2017 9:33:30 AM PST by GoldenState_Rose
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