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Communism Still Haunts Russia
Wall Street Journal Opinion Page ^ | June 8, 2022 | Robert D. Kaplan

Posted on 06/09/2022 10:58:29 AM PDT by Wuli

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1 posted on 06/09/2022 10:58:29 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Wuli

It’s haunting the USA many would say right here and right now.


2 posted on 06/09/2022 11:00:50 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Nextrush

Haunting implies it died. Its very much alive here.


3 posted on 06/09/2022 11:02:07 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Nextrush
"It’s haunting the USA many would say right here and right now."

Exactly right...

4 posted on 06/09/2022 11:03:27 AM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
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To: Wuli
Really? So far as I know Putin isn't sending the FSB into people's homes to get them to be good little communists.

However authoritarian Putin is, he is still authoritarian more than totalitarian.

Meanwhile in the supposedly free and democratic West we have vaccine mandates, CRT and LGBTQ++ propaganda aimed at children as young as Kindergarten, 5 and 10 year plans to save the planet or flatten the curve, etc.

Who are the real totalitarians now?

5 posted on 06/09/2022 11:05:02 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: Magnum44

I understand that but the idea is that Russia is still hung up in its past Communism and we are supposed to be upset about it.

Who cares about Russia it seems to be a distraction from events here in the USA?


6 posted on 06/09/2022 11:05:32 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Who is John Galt?

Lets focus on freedom right here in the USA right now.


7 posted on 06/09/2022 11:06:39 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Nextrush

Without a doubt.


8 posted on 06/09/2022 11:07:24 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Putin just poisons his enemies.


9 posted on 06/09/2022 11:08:46 AM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: Nextrush
I saw some neocon say a while back that "Stalin was a sadistic simpleton", while the airhead was bashing Pootie.

One of the most dangerous apex predators ever was a "simpleton".

These are the kind of people that are opining about Russia.

10 posted on 06/09/2022 11:29:15 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Nextrush

It may haunt Russia, but it rules America.


11 posted on 06/09/2022 11:30:20 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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To: Wuli

What crap.

It never left. Still alive and well under an oligarch veneer and in more places, much more overt.


12 posted on 06/09/2022 11:32:51 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Wuli

I’m much more worried about Communism haunting the US. My grandfather ran from Russian Communism in 1923...to a wonderful place of refuge and opportunity. It must be stamped out here, or the entire world will become a prison planet.


13 posted on 06/09/2022 11:43:37 AM PDT by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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Empire building and warmongering abroad is sure sign of tyranny at home.

We have a one-party government and certainly a uniformly statist, woke ideology at the heart of Fed.gov in Washington DC. And the DOJ enforces it like the KGB.


14 posted on 06/09/2022 12:11:57 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Wuli

As much as I liked Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, she was a Democrat, and after Reagan left office, and in the nineties, she fell back into the fold with the Clintons. This whole mess right now can be traced right back to Hillary F’ing Clinton and the little Nazis she surrounded herself with.


15 posted on 06/09/2022 12:24:03 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (Blessed are the peace makers.)
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OMG, the Neocons will NEVER quit!

Imagine the 2022 U.S. military building a Christian cathedral! They would sooner build a temple to Moloch, designed in LGBTQ+ rainbow themes, dedicated to Harvey Milk. (Actually, the USN has named a warship for that homo-pederast rapist/abuser.)

"Russia: A Look Inside Putin's Giant New Military Cathedral"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KOCkjEjFhw&ab_channel=OrthodoxShahada

16 posted on 06/09/2022 12:28:04 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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Link to new Russian military cathedral from above.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KOCkjEjFhw


17 posted on 06/09/2022 12:28:57 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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18 posted on 06/09/2022 12:29:37 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: kaktuskid
That is still authoritarian rather than totalitarian. Poison was used by the Romans and probably the Pharaohs as well.

For a long time no one brought up Kirkpatrick's paper and the words authoritarian and totalitarian were being used interchangeably even though they have distinct meanings.

Now someone finally mentions it, but distorts the meaning much like when people refer to experimental jabs as "vaccines" or CRT/LGBTQ+ propaganda as "history lessons".

19 posted on 06/09/2022 12:31:18 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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COMPARE AND CONTRAST:
Gee, just maybe this is why Russia is resisting the Globo Homo Empire? Where Ukraine joining NATO was the Russia-destroying battering ram?

Where Disney, Major League Baseball etc etc etc are all promoting “drag your kids to Trans-Homo-Pride??”

Just maybe ya think not everybody wants to turn their daughters into twerking sluts, and their boys into drag queen homos? Just maybe?

CURRENT RUSSIAN CULTURE
Beloe Zlato [Russian Girl Vocal Group]- Сирень // Lilac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipTJk4rU2TU&ab_channel=BeloeZlato

Beloe Zlato, many vocal videos, pick any at random:
https://www.youtube.com/c/BeloeZlato/videos

CURRENT AMERICAN CULTURE
Cardi B - Wet A** P***** [Official Music Video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsm4poTWjMs&ab_channel=CardiB


20 posted on 06/09/2022 12:31:45 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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