[PotatoHeadMick]

"Russia is a catastrophic country, Nigeria with rockets, mainly dangerous to herself and mainly concerned about herself."

[2ndDivisionVet]

Plagiarizing is not cool: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.”
H. L. Mencken

[DeLaVerdad]

tanks did come down my Moscow street with evil intent one bright August morning in 1991

Sounds like a job for "Iron Man!"

[eleni121]

Ryzhkov is deeply, scornfully critical of the government and the state of the country

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If this commie is upset then Putin must be doing a great job. This piece is just another example of an envious Western effete bumbleclod who cannot stand the thought of a newly revitalized Christian nation has been reborn.

The author would do well to take his feeble biased analytical skills and figure out the withering of his own sorry nation...where mohamedanism flourishes amidst a miserable secularist environment and Brits are desperate to get out.

[machenation]

4 generations of died in the wool atheists still trying to conquer their fear.

[BBell]

"They cannot fight a high-tech war or a low-intensity war. Instead, they have become the most efficient instrument of government propaganda. "

Well Putin did somehow manage to turn the tide in Chechnya. I have not heard much about Chechnya in the news as of late and I would say that that was a low-intensity war.

[Rembrandt]

“They represented the sneer of cold command, the Left’s self-righteous belief that the people should get what was good for them, hot and strong, whether they liked it or not.”
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Bill Klinton was able to gain the Presidency because he was charmingly obscure, purposely so, although this was clearly his theme.

Hilarious shares the same theme but lacks the charm and the ability to cloud mens’ eyes. That’s why she will fail.

O Barack is a lot like Bubba.

[Tailgunner Joe]

Moscow mayor wants Ukraine to hand over naval base - May 12, 2008 - Attending celebrations to mark the fleet's 225th anniversary, Yuri Luzhkov ignored a warning from the Ukrainian authorities not to repeat previous calls for the base to be placed directly in Moscow's possession. "Do you think it's right for me to keep silent?" he asked several thousand ethnic Russians in Sevastopol's main square, after watching a naval parade of Russian rocket cruisers, submarine hunters, destroyers and a submarine. "This issue remains unresolved. We will resolve it for the sake of truth, for the sake of state interests, for the sake of the lawful right that Russia has to the naval base of Sevastopol," he said. The colourful parade and diplomatic niceties of the celebrations could not hide the frosty relations between Russia and NATO aspirant Ukraine. Several hours after the parade, scuffles broke out between Ukrainian nationalists and a much larger group of ethnic Russian nationalists, who pelted the Ukrainians with eggs in front of the Russian Black Sea Fleet headquarters.

Luzhkov had previously called for the naval base to be owned outright by Moscow. When he arrived in Crimea late on Saturday, he was given a warning by Ukraine's Security Service telling him to refrain from repeating his previous statements on Sevastopol which could be interpreted as a violation of Ukrainian law. During the parade, songs glorifying Russian sailors played from loudspeakers and thousands of resident waved Russian flags and chanted "Glory to Russia!"

[nw_arizona_granny]

Ping.

[TBP]

And people like Bush and McCain insist on treating Russia like a friend.

[eggman]

Sadly, I see this as what America would become with Obama as president. A wheezing, crippled superpower whose government will permit your freedom as long as you stay out of its way.

[knews_hound]

bbttt

[VR-21]

"I lived in the Russian capital for more than two years during the nervous, burnt-out end of the great socialist experiment, an experiment that had turned a sixth of the planet into a laboratory of death, lies and failure, and which people today are inclined to forget - not realising that the ideas that lay behind that colossal wreck are still very much alive."

A clever reference to Ozymandias.

[17th Miss Regt]

Did the disappearance of the Soviet Union, whose ugliness discredited Marxism as long as it existed,...

It was not so much the ugliness of the Soviet Union as it was the ugliness of Marxism. The Soviet Union murdered 60,000,000 of its own citizens. It was a very good representation of a true Marxist regime.

[SuziQ]

The haunting old Soviet national anthem - totalitarians always have the best tunes - was frequently played on TV.

*snort* Much as I preferred the Soviet athletes not win at the Olympic Games, I always liked hearing their anthem, when they did.