You sound like someone who has not.
If the current Russian regime were to ban the works of Solzhenitsyn, what you write might make sense. But they have not, rather the opposite.
Are still living in the Cold War?
Posted on 01/26/2016 2:01:35 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Donald Trump has defended Vladimir Putin after a British public inquiry found the Russian president "probably" sanctioned the assassination of Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko in London.
Mr Trump waded into the case saying he had seen "no evidence" of Mr Putin's involvement, adding: "They say a lot of things about me that are untrue too."
The front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination has previously said he felt a "great honour" when Mr Putin praised him as an "absolute leader". ..
But Mr Trump told Fox Business: "Have they found him (Mr Putin) guilty? I don't think they've found him guilty. If he did it, fine but I don't know that he did it.
"You know, people are saying they think it was him, it might have been him, it could have been him. But in all fairness to Putin - and I'm not saying this because he says 'Trump is brilliant and leading everybody' - the fact is that he hasn't been convicted of anything. Some people say he absolutely didn't do it.
"First of all, he says he didn't do it. Many people say it wasn't him. So who knows who did it?" ...
In the most personal attack yet on his main rival Mr Trump called Mr Cruz a "nasty guy" and a "jerk".
He said: "We can't have a guy who stands in the middle of the Senate floor and every other senator thinks he's a whack job." ..
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Stalin’s negatives have fallensteadily since Putin took office. From 43% in 2001 to 20% in 2015 and it will be lower this year. Putin took office in 2000. Amazing what a state run media and schools can do over periods of time.
Thanks for that.
BTW GA is not a text. It is required reading for seniors but that’s it. They have already been conditioned by the time they read that book. No different from here in some cases.
You sound like someone who has not.
If the current Russian regime were to ban the works of Solzhenitsyn, what you write might make sense. But they have not, rather the opposite.
Are still living in the Cold War?
Of course we are.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3388890/posts?page=45#45
Tag line.
Speaking of Putin kissing people...
"In the footage, Putin, 53, is shown walking up to a small crowd of tourists in a Kremlin courtyard and crouching down in front of the boy, who appears to be five or six years old. As the Russian president talks with Nikita for several seconds, he tugs at the boy's shirt before finally lifting it up and kissing him on his bare stomach.
"He seemed to me very independent, very serious, but at the same time a boy is always vulnerable. He was very sweet. I'll be honest: I felt an urge to squeeze him like a kitten, and that led to the gesture that I made. There was nothing behind it really," Putin said, smiling.
I didn’t make up the poll numbers. They are what they are. And no I have not read it in its entirety. Excerpts here and there. How does my not having read it in its entirety explain Stalin’s poll numbers in Russia getting better over time with Solzhenitsyn’s GA widely available?
As for the cold war, it never ended as far as I am concerned. Russia is still a dangerous enemy allowed to exert much more influence in the world than their economic standing should allow.
If you had read the works of Solzenitsyn you wouldn't be believing the poll numbers.
Oh, I see. The polling is wrong. And all because I did not read GA. How many Americans do you suppose have read the Federalist Papers Fred?
The question has nothing to do with a court of law. People investigating the case believe Putin was involved.
What investigation tells Trump otherwise?
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2008/12/200812131205875296.html
Alexander Lyubimov, the man behind the television programme, has been a TV host for more than 20 years and believes the support Stalin received is perhaps due to an anti-establishment campaign launched by young, internet-savvy mischief-makers.
However, he also accepts there are many people around the country who revere the former dictator.
That surprises Masha Lipman of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She believes that her role as a liberal academic would have made her a target for the Stalinist police.
“What you have when you see this poll is the butchered, the murdered pushed aside and almost forgotten. It’s as if there were no killings, no disappearances, and no labour camps,” she said.
“People only see the war hero, the reformer and that is the story that’s now beginning to creep into a lot of history books.”
Man for the times
Al Jazeera asked Russians on the streets of Moscow what they think about the list of historical figures and the winners. One man told me: “I would vote for Peter the Great, [but] I could never support Stalin, he was evil.”
However, one smart young woman is more considered; she, too, would like Peter the Great to win but said: “Russia needed someone like Stalin at that time, someone to move the country forward. If it had not been him it would have been someone else with all the horrible things that brought.”
It is hard to find statues of Stalin anywhere in Russia any more. However, in an isolated corner of a very quiet park is a statuary graveyard.
The statues are brought here when the historical figures they represent are no longer welcome on the squares and in the streets.
And at the back sits Joseph Stalin. There are two busts of him; one is tall and grand but the nose has been violently broken off while the other is made of white marble, now looking weather-beaten and worn.
Stalin might be hidden away and almost forgotten but this poll shows there are thousands more who still believe he is a true Russian hero.
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And meanwhile we still have people in Germany saying Hitler had the right idea, just as in years ahead, the die-hard obamabots will still be with us.
Many of you neocons are living in the cold war. Russia was a terrible place under communism, but no more. Putin is loved by the great majority of Russians. He loves his country. He protects Christians while killing muslims.
The Ukraine revolution was engineered by the obama white house with the blessings of the Republics elite. The plan was to embarrass Putin during the Winter olympics in Russia. After the US overthrew the sovereign nation Ukraine with the help of neo nazis, it then proceeded to install a US puppet regime that is rabidly anti Russia.
You are quoting a Bill Gertz article at free beacon.com.
Gertz has long been considered CIA. His articles prove this bias.
You quote thenewamerican.com. This site is known to be infested with Russian hating neocons living in the cold war.
IATZ, dammit.
‘Mr Trump waded into the case saying he had seen ‘no evidence” of Mr Putin’s involvement, adding: ‘They say a lot of things about me that are untrue too.’
How ‘thuggish’ to demand evidence, to assume innocence.
Putin is a potential ally in the war against terror. He also is opposed to the West’s Ruling Class. Stands up for Christianity and against homosexual ‘rights’.
So to insist on evidence before pronouncing guilt is only reasonable, especially from the Islomo-PHILIC UK Establishment that has been absurdly hostile to Trump’s desire for safety in the US.
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