Posted on 05/18/2016 10:55:31 AM PDT by Red Badger
And as I pointed out, the only reason Crimea was part of Ukraine, was that Khrushchev transferred it from the Russian SSR to the Ukrainian SSR to try to win over the Ukrainians, when he was still vying to replace Stalin. At that time it was a meaningless gesture because Moscow was still calling the shots.
This article today gets a little into the collapse of the beef industry and other horrors. An island nation with no sugar, no peppers or tomatoes.
Do you think, like I do, that we’ll see this in the not too distant future?
“Stalin remains a controversial figure today, with many regarding him as a tyrant.”
Most fellow Russians I know still respect and credit Stalin for transforming the USSR into an advanced industrial power. Like an abusive father who whipped his son into greatness
The nickname for him was “horoshaya svoloch”. Or “good bastard/a**hole/SOB”
That said, average Russians stopped believing in the glory of socialism as soon as it impacted them and saw it as a sad joke propagated by the elites (”we’ll all be rich as soon as full communism comes to town!”). It was said in the 60s that you could find more communists believers on an average American block than a Soviet one.
Well, I seem to remember all you tards in the streets with your signs that said SI!
You want a sandwich? SI!
Tough!
Russians don’t see Stalin as a Communist, but more like a Czar in the vein of “Ivan the Terrible” (whom Stalin modeled himself after).
'We want food!': Venezuela crisis deepens !
People in Hell want Ice Water.
Communism had its believers. While living in Canada in the seventies, I made friends with some Hungarians who had left communist Hungary for the west. They told me about some of their friends in Canada who had emigrated from Hungary, stayed a short while, and then went right back to living under communism.
They preferred a society where they were guaranteed a job, but if they didn’t have one, could live anyway. The prospect of getting work in Canada, with the risk of losing it, scared them so much they went back. Over the generations, socialism seems to breed socialists.
Kruschev was portrayed as a grandfatherly type when he visited the US in the sixties.
In reality, he was a murderous thug, just like Stalin.
You problem hiring a winnable Boy Scout and a Taxi Driver. What were you expecting different results?
Where did that photo come from, I didn’t see it at the link you provided?
What!!! Their socialist s*** sammich isn’t enough for them??? Boo Hoo.
Come on Red, you know darn well that if you're going to post threads, you don't modify the title and most importantly, the content.........
According to the other site it’s dated as of today. I posted the pic since it was in reference to the article that didn’t have any..................
Then why didn't you post THAT link? Maybe you might want to ask the mods to modify your thread.............just sayin.
Socialism sucks... starvation and mass murders ... didn’t these people ever check out Cuba?
My bad, I just read 18th and thought it was today.
Mods, please remove my pic....................
Another thought Red, just ask the mods to delete this one and repost with the proper link...........I’m not being critical just trying to maintain accuracy.
It always amazes me when things go wrong like this and people scream “Change the government!!...”
I get amazed basically because the government doesn’t actually DO anything!
Hell, I’d be yelling Change the truck drivers! Change the farmers! Change the factory workers! Stuff like that.
The government is the LAST person I would ask to change. I mean simply outside of just firing (and maybe executing) them all.
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