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2014-10-18 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

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Posted by Besoeker 2014-10-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Yep. It was super rational to decimate soviet officer corps just before the war.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-10-18 03:51|| 2014-10-18 03:51|| Front Page Top

#2 It was a sign of good faith from.
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Kuba believed.

Posted by Shipman 2014-10-18 05:15|| 2014-10-18 05:15|| Front Page Top

#3 As the Russians say: Good king, bad Boyars.

Posted by badanov 2014-10-18 06:21|| http://www.chriscovert.net 2014-10-18 06:21|| Front Page Top

#4 he did exactly what he said he would do.....Lenin himself suggested that peasants should be forced to deliver their grain to the state, and that those who refused should be “shot on the spot.”.

Interesting read. The quotes above are particularly worrisome as they clearly match the ideologues of the left that are contesting for power here now.

We ignore at our peril what the progs and muzzies say with the "oh they don't really mean it" whistle past the graveyard and their lack of any reticence about using force for their perceived "good".

Evil ideologies and evil people are rarely shy about what they want and will do.

Posted by AlanC 2014-10-18 08:30|| 2014-10-18 08:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Yep. It was super rational to decimate soviet officer corps just before the war.

Well, he did have the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact going for him....

Posted by Pappy 2014-10-18 10:43|| 2014-10-18 10:43|| Front Page Top

#6 By the way, its 50th anniversary was last month.

Posted by Pappy 2014-10-18 10:47|| 2014-10-18 10:47|| Front Page Top

#7 Joseph Stalin sounds scarily like Obama:

"If Soviet policies were unpopular, even among workers, that could be explained: antagonism was rising because the class struggle was intensifying.

Whatever went wrong, the counterrevolution, the forces of conservatism, the secret influence of the bourgeoisie could always be held responsible.

Over and over again, Stalin learned that violence was the key to success.

[Civil War] imparted a sense of seeming legitimacy, urgency, and moral fervor to predatory methods.”

Posted by frozen al 2014-10-18 11:31|| 2014-10-18 11:31|| Front Page Top

#8 Joseph Stalin sounds scarily like Obama

Now, now, lets not exaggerate. Barry wouldn't make a pimple on Stalin's arse.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-10-18 12:17|| 2014-10-18 12:17|| Front Page Top

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