[BenLurkin]

"Great Patriotic War"

Fine name for a conflict in which the USSR began as an ally of Nazi Germany.

[IbJensen]

And praise him he should.

Stalin played the sickly socialist Roosevelt like a harp.

Thanks to his sly tactics Stalin was able to suck up all the free war material necessary to supply his counteroffensive against Germany.

More goodies came his way at the end of World War II. Instead of facing superior American troops in the battlefield he won WWII and Eastern Europe as well as all the machinery necessary to produce manufactured goods and he kidnapped all the scientists and engineers to help guide an industrialized USSR.

He also made off with over 3,000 Americans who were treated as dogs in his slave gulags with no intervention on America's part.

He was our enemy and so is Putin and so is the present occupant of the White House, his entire staff, most bureaucrats and all Democrats and even some Republicans.

Isn't about time we step up and tell them all that we're tired of being shat upon?

[Brad from Tennessee]

What ever happened to the Russian crime syndicate that seemed to fill the power vacuum in the first post-Soviet years? It allied with ex-KGB official Putin and formed a government. Any relations with Russia have to be conducted in this context.

One of Stalin's chores during the revolution was to rob Czarist banks. Though communist societies may be founded by idealists they end up being managed by sociopaths.

[cranked]

Hardliner pacification.

[bert]

Who is the prosecutor?

Where does he live?

Who is his wife?

Who are his children?

[Thunder90]

Russia/Soviet/Coldwar2 PING!!!

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