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Putin pkositions himself as the moderate, following big wins in Duma elections.
1 posted on 09/23/2016 4:41:10 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
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To: ameribbean expat

Greatest Russian leader since Peter the Great.


2 posted on 09/23/2016 4:43:33 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (TRUMP THAT BEYOTCH!)
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To: ameribbean expat

Translation: Putin thinks it’s not too late to reconquer the old Soviet Empire.


3 posted on 09/23/2016 4:43:38 PM PDT by MeganC (JE SUIS CHARLES MARTEL!!!)
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To: ameribbean expat

Isn’t that what Gorbachev tried to do?


4 posted on 09/23/2016 4:47:02 PM PDT by proxy_user
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To: ameribbean expat

Start with the central Asian states and kick Muslim butt.


5 posted on 09/23/2016 4:47:24 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: ameribbean expat; MeganC
It was in the process of being reformed, under Gorbachev, which is why it collapsed.

Shouldn't an ex-KGB agent know this?

6 posted on 09/23/2016 4:48:03 PM PDT by OddLane
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To: ameribbean expat

I wonder what the former Soviet citizens living in the outlying territories would say about that. It seems that the last time they saw the opportunity to leave they voted with their feet.


7 posted on 09/23/2016 4:50:00 PM PDT by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives - ban gun free zones)
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Who destroyed it?

Didn’t it sort of fall apart on its own?


10 posted on 09/23/2016 4:51:25 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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They were attempted - but the nomenklatura fought them every step of the way.

It was clear to every one after the August coup, that the Communist Party was a criminal organization and preserving its rule would doom the big country to decades of endless stagnation.

The only way forward was to break up the country. Given the situation, a desperate time called for a desperate measure.

In my view, the Eurasian Union is more than an adequate replacement for the deceased USSR.


11 posted on 09/23/2016 4:51:57 PM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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the Communist Party was in charge of our former homeland, the USSR, not any other

John Paul II would have taken issue with that rather odd statement.

13 posted on 09/23/2016 4:53:35 PM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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Been saying he’s still a commie all this time. Even FReepers have tried to tell me I’m nuts. KGB leopards don’t change their spots!


15 posted on 09/23/2016 4:54:32 PM PDT by Boogieman
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Trump is absolutely right. Putin IS a great leader who loves AND DEFENDS his country. Emasculated countries end up like Germany, France and the United States; No direction but WORSE, no cause, no growth.. Only decay and destruction of culture. WEAKNESS, SURRENDER AND SUBMISSION TO ISLAM.

Putin is one of the ONLY leaders in the world who fights AGAINST the U.N/NWO and has spoken out on the assault on Christians worldwide.

16 posted on 09/23/2016 4:55:21 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Females DESTROYED America.)
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I’m at the point where I don’t care if Russia is communist or capitalist. The fact that we see them as enemies is idiotic.


20 posted on 09/23/2016 5:03:42 PM PDT by Magnatron
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Funny, Czar Nicholas II Said the same thing 99 years ago about his government.
23 posted on 09/23/2016 5:09:02 PM PDT by MCF (If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo.)
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Once upon a time, we had a truly great American President:

So, in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride–the temptation of blithely..uh..declaring yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong and good and evil.

That evil empire, for those of you too young to remember, was the late, very much unlamented "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics". It was a murderous, totalitarian regime now consigned to the dustbin of history with its twin brother the Third Reich. Anyone who wants to revive it can go to hell. Anyone who mourns for it is either stupid or evil.

26 posted on 09/23/2016 5:11:44 PM PDT by NorthMountain (Hillary Clinton: corrupt unreliable negligent traitor)
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The USSR destroyed itself.


39 posted on 09/23/2016 5:39:16 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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sorry but that is a bs lie.


43 posted on 09/23/2016 6:15:03 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ameribbean expat
The Soviet Union was an evil abomination that had to die and then be officially declared dead.

Both Fatima and then Garabandal seem to speak to Russia and neither in a good way.

Mari Loli, one of the seers of Garabandal, was asked about the Warning and had this to say:

Mrs. [Christine] Bocabeille then asked Mari Loli: "If you are not allowed to tell me the exact year [of the Warning], perhaps you could tell me approximately when it will happen."
"Yes, it will be at that time when the world will most need it."
"When is that?"
"When Russia will unexpectedly and suddenly overrun and overwhelm a great part of the free world. God does not want this to happen so quickly. In any case the Warning will come when you will see that Holy Mass cannot be celebrated freely anymore; then it will be that the world will most need the intervention of God."
Don't know what that means exactly, but the part about Russia overwhelming a great part of the free world seems plausible enough.
47 posted on 09/24/2016 10:07:46 AM PDT by GBA (Here in the matrix, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.)
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