[Iris7]

"Labor in the USSR Is a Matter of Honor, Courage, and Heroism

(Sign over the gulag camps gates.)"

Reminds me of "Arbeit Macht Frei", over the entrance to Auschwitz. (German for "Work(ing) makes freedom", approximately.)

Wish we had fixed those Soviet problems earlier. Lots of factors had to come together to get it done. President Ronald Reagan did as much as anyone to get the job done, with the exception of His Holiness, John Paul II. And more than a few other brave Poles. Czechs, too. Mostly the Russians lost faith in their false god. Also the Red Army knew that modern weapons would turn their army into instant scrap metal, and demanded results from the Politburo. The Communists couldn't deliver the goods. Heh heh. Reagan's plan, that. Marshall Ogarkov read the Politburo the riot act in '91, as I recall. Modern weapons, or else. Else was loss of Army support. So sad, too bad, the jokes on you!

[Iris7]

Sorry about repeating your "Arbeit". Good picture.

Hitler was a socialist, a Leftist. Sure didn't like Jews, Poles, Russians, and I honestly think, Germans, either. I think he only liked people after they got to room temperature.

[SAMWolf]

Morning Iris7.

Reminds me of "Arbeit Macht Frei", over the entrance to Auschwitz.

Great minds think alike...

The Soviets were the masters of Orwell's doublespeak, the moderem Democratic Party has the the Communist propaganda methods down pat.