Posted on 05/21/2024 6:32:46 PM PDT by DoodleBob
I remember when Stalin died and both of my parents were very happy. I knew that Stalin must have been a very evil person because it was completely unusual for my good parents (father a WW2 vet) to be happy that someone had died.
There was a true leader! The Eisenhower years were the high water mark of US history.
To heck with him! He knifed MCCarthy in the back. Completly obtuse on domestic Marxism.
Eisenhower said that had Zhukov been in power instead of Stalin, there wouldn’t have been a cold war. The two generals greatly admired each other.
It’s ridiculous to compare Biden to Eisenhower. That said, Eisenhower’s speech was 6 weeks after Stalin died. The official cable sent the day Stalin died was about the same as the Biden regime’s “condolences”. It read:
“The government of the United States tenders its official condolences to the Government of the U.S.S.R. on the death of Generalissimo Joseph Stalin, Prime Minister of the Soviet Union.”
But there will be no speech from Biden to match Eisenhower’s. Not really the same opportunity either.
No, No, Joe--Luke the Drifter (1950)
Advice to Joe--Roy Acuff (1951)
Stalin Kicked the Bucket--Ray Anderson (1953)
After the USSR fell, their economy collapsed. They didn’t have a pot to piss in.
They couldn’t maintain their nuclear arsenal. We were paying their nuclear scientist’s salaries to keep them from going to Iran.
If we had wanted to “conquer” Russia, there were about ten years in the 90s when they couldn’t have stopped us.
Stalin Wasn't Stallin'--The Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet (1943)
Moscow-Peking--The All-Union Radio Orchestra & Chorus (1950)
"Stalin & Mao listen to us"
Vast Country, My Homeland--Ukrainian State Chapel Symphony (1939)
"In big golden letters, we write the All-Union Stalinist code"
Stalin, Friend & Comrade--Ernst Busch (1951)
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Thanks for the official cable, I was searching for something similar to what Bidet issued, ie a cable and not a speech. I missed it.
As for a speech, there is always time. If Jill was smart, she’d wait a few weeks and THEN dope up hubby but good, and send him to a soundstage. There he could deliver a speech written by ChatGPT with professional editing for when he goes off script.
I mean, the guy has a gaggle of speech writers. He has image coaches, consultants, advisors out the ying yang. With a little effort and a lot of coaching, they could make Peewee Herman look like a great statesman. But even with all his staff, aside from a few moments here and there, Biden comes across as a doddering old fool.
Yes, and the telegram on Stalin‘s death didn‘t mean that President Eisenhower sympathized with Communism or with the USSR in any way, shape, or form.
He was just observing diplomatic protocol.
Just the same as it had been eight years earlier, when the Irish government sent its condolences to the German ambassador in Dublin on account of Hitler‘s death. It is preposterous to conclude that there was any sympathy for the tyrant among the Irish government.
Just as there was no sadness in D.C. at Stalin‘s demise.
Yep.
“ If we had wanted to “conquer” Russia, there were about ten years in the 90s when they couldn’t have stopped us.”
Instead, we sent them some intelligencia from our elite Ivy League universities. Russia ended up with each citizen getting a piece of paper worth a tiny percentage of the formally state owned utilities, for example. Most people just sold the paper for an even smaller amount. Instead of having the socialist heaven that the US intelligencia envisioned, Russia ended up with a few billionaire oligarchs and the rest of the people still poor.
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