"Sickening and sad. I feel so sorry for two very folks I met there."
Yes it is, but it's not over until it's over. The trick is to wake OUR people up and expose the phony "collapse" of the Soviet Union. That's literally all it would take for the inherently weak Communists to fold like a house of cards that they are.
I know what you mean, but I'd quibble with your wording. Some of it may be phony, but The Collapse was not. It is Gorbachev's imaginative oblivion that has convinced himself that he orchestrated it.
=== The trick is to wake OUR people up and expose the phony "collapse" of the Soviet Union.
Sorry ... won't happen.
Americans are like dogs with a bone when it comes to clinging to those Black and White perpetual conflicts which make international politics so much easier to understand and predict. Sino-Soviet, Israeli-Arab ... uh .... uhmmm ... French-English, German-Pole?
The only thing of which it's even less likely to disabuse them is a Hollywood blockbuster ending like the fall of the Wall or pulling out ALL the stops -- a Polish Pope and Catholic lingo and everything! -- as Solidarity signals the start of Perestroika.
Yes it is, but it's not over until it's over. The trick is to wake OUR people up and expose the phony "collapse" of the Soviet Union. That's literally all it would take for the inherently weak Communists to fold like a house of cards that they are.
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What do you think, Tap? Is Yushchenko the real deal or another Soviet stooge? How shall we attack the house of cards?