Sounds familiar...
Posted on 12/08/2006 3:49:35 PM PST by MadIvan
Regards, Ivan
Ping!
Disappointing.
We might be moving those bases just in time.
Very subtle change here...it's not the Russian government, but the Russian "regime".
Sounds familiar...
The Russians have always been that way. Communism was just a different excuse for a while.
Too bad. Obviously Russia is not ready to be a free society.
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| So long dear... I'm off to harass the British Ambassador! |
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'Very subtle change here" - Immaterial. Every people deserves its government, or "regime". [i.e. the said regime or government adequately reflects the socially active part of its population].
Perhaps the Brits will fight fire with fire -- it would certainly be a shame if some Russian officials were to suddenly "fall ill" under mysterious circumstances.
It's not immaterial when it comes to the media...regime is without exception the word used to describe a government in a negative manner.
Well, tell me when since AD 862 has there been a government on a russian territory which could have been described in a positive manner. As far as my knowledge of history goes, all of them were [civilizationally] negative - some more so, others a tad less.
They were all regimes.
What was the last American "regime"?
Pre-revolutionary? Lincoln? FDR?
There's never been an American "regime".
well, if one was to believe the contemporary press [some of which, IIRC, described lincoln as "baboon"], his must have been a regime, for your test of negative press would be easily satisfied there. Or take H. L. Mencken's take on FDR.
"The Russians have always been that way. Communism was just a different excuse for a while."Care to support your blanket statement? I'd say that's a very primitivistic view of both culture and history. Its like saying the Americans have always been and will always be a bunch of British Empire rejects. Too soon do you forget the tremendous impact of communism on so many aspects of traditional Russian society, life and culture. A change unprecedented by anything else in the history of Russian people ever since they evolved as a unique ethnos from the fiefdoms of Kievan Rus'.
"Well, tell me when since AD 862 has there been a government on a russian territory which could have been described in a positive manner. As far as my knowledge of history goes, all of them were [civilizationally] negative - some more so, others a tad less."Same old broken whiny record... Kievan Rus lasted until the 12th century and I'm holding my breath for anyone to point out exactly how "civilizationally negative" it has been compared to any contemporaries, Western specifically. At least you pick and choose your dates :)
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