Posted on 10/01/2004 12:11:08 AM PDT by MIT-Elephant
Kerry in Moscow? Fersure. On someone else's dime, too.
I would have posted it even earlier last night here on FR (it just hit me in the stomach when Lurch said it last night), but was doing some other stuff right after the debate.
Of course, the notorious square in Moscow was alternately known as "Dzerzhinsky Square" and "Lubyanka Square." The prison was "Lubyanka Prison". It is right across the street from Moscow's "Child World" a huge toy shop.
I visited this area even during the Soviet Union, mid 1980s. There was old Felix, right there in the middle of the traffic circle. Hideous, tall, thin statue right across the street from the Kamitiet Gosudarstvenoye Besopasnosti (KGB). A hell of a street to try to cross on foot if I recall. Right near a metro station.
"Child World", across the street at that time (and probably still now), had the most disgusting water fountains that were actually one glass that people would fill up, drink from, pour out the rest of the water, and set back in the machine for the next person to drink from!)
(In all fairness, the President's pronunciation of "Kim Jong-il" got worse throughout the night!!) :-)
I'm not so concerned with the flubs - that's become a Kerry trademark and we'll get more of them.
The reason I posted is because even the mention of something as evil as Treblinka should spark outrage in any decent-minded person who hears it.
Incidentally, the American liberation of Iraq has ended a similar regime of oppression and execution. This for me is perhaps the best point for next century's history books - that we ended an ongoing massive atrocity.
Lubyanka was actually the jail inside the KGB building which was in Dzerzhinsky Square in Moscow. All very, very bad scene. Lubyanka was the basement where the condemned from the purge trials were exected. More than this you don't need to know.
Kerry did visit Treblinka...it was on the same secret mission that brought him to Cambodia. Forget about the fact that Kerry wasn't even born during the atrocities at Treblinka, if Kerry says he was there, no one can dispute it...it would be questioning his patriotism.
Aleksandr Solzhenitzn's "Gulag Archipelago" gives all the information one would ever want on Lubyanka Prison.
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