Posted on 11/20/2005 4:27:07 PM PST by REactor
"The Nashi are only there to protect the government from the same thing which happened in the Ukraine, and they certainly are not an extremist group."
Gary, and what's so bad that happened in Ukraine that "Nashi" thugs need to protect Kremlin from ? Orange revolution I suppose ?
If protests against electoral fraud and vote rigging is a bad thing, then apparently we have a different definition what's bad and what's good.
Have you seen any of the Nashi? How do you know they are thugs?
I've read a number of accounts of opposition politicians being attacked and their attackers seen among Nashi meetings, etc. None of the high profile attacks on opposition politicians are properly investigated and there are no charges brought against these attackers. After all, there is no smoke without fire.
Sergey, now you are dealing in rumors.
==After all, there is no smoke without fire.==
Don't forget, "Nashi" are 14-20 years old teenagers. They want to be 'heroes'.
With the exception that Americans fought for freedom and the Soviet people (Russians?) fought to impose slavery. But you propably don't care for such things (or otherwise the difference would be obvious for you).
1. Chechens are evil and they like killing people. This nation should be exterminated because they are animals.
2. Western propaganda is confusing everything what's going on in North Caucasus. In reality people there are living in peace and harmony.
3. Russians have invaded this country 150 years ago, murdered one third of its population, made it a province of Russian Empire, then in 1940s' invaded it again under Stalin and deported ALL this nation from their native land. Then in 1990's when the Chechens tried to regain independence Russians invaded their country for the third and fourth times killing roughly 200 thousand people.
Which of the above answers is true, d'you think?
No.
The USA bombed Vietnam with chemical weapons and napalm in order to make the Vietnamneese free people what significantly worsened the nation's health.
There is no difference.
I don't want to bash the USA for beacuse of many reasons (but excluding the one that we did the same).
You are right, for the bombed it made no difference whether they were bombed by Americans, Russians or Martians. If you see no difference between the aggressor and the victim , then you must acknowledge that the number of Russains killed in WWII is easily cancelled out by the number of Germans, Poles, Lithanians, Ukrainians and Japanese killed by Russians. That's what moral equivalence leads to. "Moral equivalence" - am I not casting pearls before swine???
(1)The official number of killed Soviet citizens during WWII is more the the all others combined.
(2)The USA wasn't a defending party during the Vietnam war. "Moral equivalence" - am I not casting pearls before swine???
Probably, Sir. Your manners are quite amazing, I doubt I can equal you in this field.
This statement is unfortunately not true as can easily be proved: WWII body count The unanswerable question remains to be what percent of those 21 million Soviet casulaties were killed by Germans?
(2)The USA wasn't a defending party during the Vietnam war
It was. USA was defending South Vietnam from communist aggression.
Your manners are quite amazing, I doubt I can equal you in this field.
Dear Sir, You, as a person brought up in an atheist country are probably not aware but "casting pearls before swines" is a citation from New Testament and is considered in Christian countries as a neutral metaphor.
Regards
REactor
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