Posted on 04/29/2025 1:45:37 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
In China which now includes Hong Kong it’s illegal to even utter the name “Tianenmen Square”
Yes I know. Taylor Swift had to rename her album 1989 over there (her birth year) because it could be misconstrued as being about Tiananmen Square...
The Left LOVED them some Russia when it was the USSR.
WOW. Not sure what to make of that morally...from Taylor's end.
Practically.
“Back to WWII — Hitler was bad, Stalin was bad, the Versailles Treaty was bad, a lot of stuff went wrong for a lot of people.”
As were the WESTERN Industrialists who propped up Hitler to fight the Communist Soviets, as they didn’t want to get their hands dirty having to do the actual fighting. Not much different than today’s Neocons with their Proxy Wars.
One thing though...often these type of ‘cute schemes’ don’t go exactly as desired, as WW2 showed, and more recent wars are showing.
“What a shock! Arrogant Russians are the stars of their own story.”
I’d rather have that ‘arrogant’ authors telling me how great my country is than the PURE SHIT that is in Howard Zinn’s book, “A People’s History of the United States”...which is in universal use in our schools.
BobL, the difference is...
Okay well first off how Russians today learn AMERICAN history is very much like the Zinn version (he’s practically Soviet himself, let’s be real!)
Most importantly, America genuinely does have the moral high ground of history. Even in all its imperfection. Russia, can’t boast of that tier of national integrity. Sorry. It can’t.
bkmk
I’m British, should I still be pissed at the Normans, the Danes and the Romans?
I am sure you lap up that Russian crap like your grandma’s borscht.
“You realize there are gulags that have been preserved in Russia to remind the populace of the horrors that occurred under Stalin?”
Or that Putin REQUIRES Russian kids to learn what Gulag life was life by reading One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, which details life in the Gulag.
Perhaps if the United States required that the horrors of Communism be taught in our schools to the level Putin requires it in Russian schools, we would not have HALF OF THE COUNTRY wanting to turn the US into a Soviet-style Hell Hole.
Funny how the Neocons and Zeepers never seem to have a problem with the crap that goes on here...only over there. I wonder why (just kidding, it’s obvious).
“Germany after WWII is one of the few that openly beat home the bad things Germany had done, and that was probably caused by pressure from the west.”
And yet that may be the reason that Japan stays Japanese, but the beaten-down Germans appear happy to see their culture DESTROYED, probably by the next generation.
A Nation that doesn’t honor its heroes will eventually be ruled by one that does.
“Like abortion. (Also extremely prevalent in Russia.)”
Not really, no worse than the West, assuming you ignore the Zeepers insisting on using 1990 numbers, rather than recent numbers.
“This is flatout untrue. Ukraine was not a prosperous place. It was a backyards and corrupt country not any better than Russia.”
Agree, Ukraine was a TOTAL BASKET CASE before the war, whereas Putin’s Russia is virtually the only country in measurable economic growth.
“Most importantly, America genuinely does have the moral high ground of history.”
I lived in a small part of that history...but it sure as hell is NOT the case now, now when we have a Democrat Party that is hell-bent on turning this country into a Fascist state.
“I am sure you lap up that Russian crap like your grandma’s borscht.”
If you’re not familiar with Howard Zinn’s book, YOU ARE THE PROBLEM in this country.
“we have a Democrat Party that is hell-bent on turning this country into a Fascist state.”
The Soviet infiltrators in academia, culture, media — and all that published revisionism worked. This is the fruit!
Am I?
You havent said anything good about the US in years. You spend your day lubing yourself up with a portrait of Putin and spraying that crap all over this site.
I would suggest you go home to the Motherland…but my guess is you work out of there, so it would be a short trip for you.
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