- Marc Riboud/Magnum Photos - Though Mikhail Gorbachev is lionized in the West, the untranslated archives suggest a much darker figure.
Posted on 04/02/2011 9:26:44 AM PDT by bronxville
- Marc Riboud/Magnum Photos - Though Mikhail Gorbachev is lionized in the West, the untranslated archives suggest a much darker figure.
Clickable link -
http://www.city-journal.org/2010/20_2_soviet-archives.html
Long article but she writes so well it’s an easy read. Amazing stuff yet it’s wiki-leaks which gets the attention.
Ask any kid. They think Gorbachev magnanimously decided to get rid of communism. Reagan, Thatcher, and the Pope’s efforts are forgotten except for those of us who lived through it and future conservative historians.
“For evidence of this indifference, consider the unread Soviet archives. Pavel Stroilov, a Russian exile in London, has on his computer 50,000 unpublished, untranslated, top-secret Kremlin documents, mostly dating from the close of the Cold War. He stole them in 2003 and fled Russia. Within living memory, they would have been worth millions to the CIA; they surely tell a story about Communism and its collapse that the world needs to know. Yet he can't get anyone to house them in a reputable library, publish them, or fund their translation. In fact, he can’t get anyone to take much interest in them at all.”
Unfreaking believable......
Oh, those wacky communists. They were just playing around. How can I be interested in this when Britney Spears is showing her most important part again.
“The world remains inexplicably indifferent and uncurious about the deadliest ideology in history.”
Not if you were raised in my family...Master Chief Duntno would have kicked your ass all over town if you said anything positive about a Democrat, a Democrat idea or even soccer ... “that communist sport that’s taking kids away from football and making them pansies.”
Yes, she had the college revisionist history professors after her on that and other non-specific points...link to her response...
http://www.city-journal.com/2010/eon0518cb.html
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And Democracy leads just as inexorably to Socialism and Communism. How about we go back to a Free Republic and step back from the edge of the Democratic cliff?
Just a thought we all here can relate to...
Nancy Pelosi: One of Mikhail Gorbachev’s most useful idiots
By Judi McLeod
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Investigative journalists doing their jobs should dig deep—really deep—into Nancy Pelosi’s role in the controversial, $280-million, federal-funded Hunters Point Shipyard affair—in relation to her alleged role as an investor in a real estate investment entity called PRESIDIO PARTNERS....
...For Pelosi it’s a well trodden trail that goes all the way to former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, the Presidio’s most famous tenant.
“Among the unpublicized facts about Nancy Pelosi was that she was an investor in a real estate investment entity called PRESIDIO PARTNERS, which set up shortly after the Nixon Administration’s first closure of federal military bases around the US,”.
“Among the choicest real estate properties were (a) San Francisco’s Presidio Fort then the headquarters for the Sixth US Army (b) Treasure Island and Yreba Buena Island, the US Navy’s parcels in San Francisco Bay (c) The Hunter’s Point Naval Base, then biggest US Navy base between Seattle Washington Long Beach and San Diego California.”
Pelosi’s involvement in the disposal of federal military surplus land is matched only by Gorbachev, who as founder of Green Cross International (GCI) devised a mechanism for converting American military bases to civilian uses converting the bases over to “global centers for sustainability”. Gorbachev’s mission of converting American military bases to global centers for sustainability came just two years after he resigned as president of the Soviet Union on December 25, 1991.
CGI built on the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and supported the implementation of the summit’s Agenda 21.
Pelosi patiently shepherded Agenda 21 through Congress. On March 29, 1993 she introduced a joint resolution (H.J.RES166) to renew the call for the United States to “assume a strong leadership role in implementing Agenda 21 and other Summit agreements”, eventually gathering 67 co-sponsors for her bill, 32 of whom are still in Congress.
In a speech entitled “From Swords to Plowshares, delivered in the House of Representatives on June 4, 1992, Pelosi cheered the arrival of Gorbachev to the Presidio as a tenant.
“The National Park Service is actively seeking ideas for programs and tenants at this spectacular site. Last month, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev visited the presidio to propose that the Gorbachev Foundation/use be located at the Presidio when the army leaves. In his words, “it is wonderful and symbolic that a military base is being converted for use by the people’.
“As the cold war ends,” Pelosi continued, “it is, indeed, fitting that this army garrison—one of the oldest in the United States—will be transformed to a monument to peace, environmental preservation and recreation as a global park.”
Less than a year after Pelosi’s fawning words, Gorbachev and his American pre-funded $3.5-million Gorbachev Foundation moved into new a white, shingled bayfront house at the historic Presidio overlooking the Golden Bridge...
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/ans-cover-news111506.htm
I was thinking of doing a new “flashback” thread on this...
This is awful. I once participated in a letter-writing campaign to get Vladimir Bukovsky out of a Soviet psychiatric internment; brilliant man, brilliant and brave beyond all telling; and now nobody gives a $#!+
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The Nazis killed @ 7 million.
Stalin killed 25 million and Mao killed over 80 million people.
Schicklgruber was a piker compared to those two.
I hope this gets some traction especially in light of world attention on wikileaks and I think I’ll post the vile Pelosi...Gorbachev deal story above because of the recent “eminent domain” story in the news. These people consider our property as their property...it has to stop.
nobody in his right mind would ask a kid about anything historic. Unless that kid is home schooled.
Double that.
He's still a piker, relatively, though.
Very interesting posts here for you to disseminate, should you wish to do so. LS, you may find this very interesting indeed. And Cindy, well you are the best archiver I know. Starwise and PGALT, long time no talk, but I thought you would like to see these posts. Finally, Neverdem just something for you to file where ever you like. TY,bronxville for posting this. It is quite astonishing.
Ping.
Yet they’re the two who gets a pass by the progressives.
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