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Posted on 02/14/2024 8:32:49 AM PST by MeganC
It looks like a good documentary.
Russia is a multi-racial, multi-ethnic country - see the Asian faces and Muslim headscarves on the streets of Moscow - that hasn’t yet succombed to DEI, quotas, and guilt. But for how long? Being weak may be an advantage. Countries that don’t feel threatened by outsiders tend to destroy themselves.
Also, the Soviets drew boundaries in their own interest. Assigning some Armenians to Azerbaijan suited their interests. Ditto with giving Crimea to Ukraine.
Bush, The Elder, surely mismanaged the fall of communism.
E.g. he opposed the disintegration of Soviet union and Yugoslavia. He even went there to try to talk to them. Funny, the disintegrations in both cases happen just the next day after he left!
His reasoning was really stupid - “I want to have only one country to talk to”. Understand, I am lazy, I do not want to talk to a dozen of countries separately!
Moreover, he basically refused to help post soviet countries, so they were left for Soros to be picked (Soros was extremally active then!)
When the Communism disintegrated, there were many countries who tried to get over the scourge. But they were left on their own, with little or none help or even a guidance!
Those poor people were even voting the communists back in some cases, just because the switch was really painfull.
> Bush, The Elder, surely mismanaged the fall of communism. <
And Bush the Younger mismanaged the rise of radical Islam. Instead of crushing them as FDR crushed fascism, Bush II told us “Islam is peace.”
I voted for Bush I twice, and Bush II once (I wised up by the time Bush II ran for reelection). I now regret all three of those votes.
I think the Germans knew precisely the quality of what they were dealing with in the matter of Lenin. It was because they understood the infectious nature of his political views that they described transporting on a train on from Switzerland to Russia as if he were a "sealed bacillus". However, just like any bioweapon, he proved an advantage in the short term, but difficult to contain in the long run.
The zeepers are spamming their little heads off today.
> However, just like any bioweapon, he [Lenin] proved an advantage in the short term, but difficult to contain in the long run. <
Nice turn of the phrase there.
The Prussian elite have a pretty poor record in that regard. They embraced Hitler in 1933 because they saw the Nazis as a counterbalance to the German communists. Well, they were right about that. But then…
The 99th prediction of Russian collapse.
“The 99th prediction of Russian collapse.”
It’s a documentary about the Soviet collapse. Unless of course you’re asserting that there is no difference between Russia and the USSR in which case your comment is spot on.
“We endure it’’, he wrote ‘’Because of our cursed capacity to endure’’. Besides having the ability to get blind drunk at the drop of a hat the Russians seem to have a positive talent for making things hard on themselves.
“Besides having the ability to get blind drunk at the drop of a hat the Russians seem to have a positive talent for making things hard on themselves.”
I am often guilty of the latter offense.
Good comment, by the way. (-:
See post 19.
—”Putin is not a communist.”
A distinction without a difference.
When did conservatives supporting communists become possible?
A total contradiction and not possible.
Methinks it is fake conservative interlopers.
“Shoot a commie for mommie”
Still holds.
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