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2011-07-06 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Steve White 2011-07-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Unlikely.

Posted by Skidmark 2011-07-06 02:21|| 2011-07-06 02:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Kimmie doesn't want his boys to see girls who bathe and get enough to eat.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-07-06 12:11|| 2011-07-06 12:11|| Front Page Top

#3 "The food shortage is worsening in barracks, as it has become difficult to collect food from the public."

Can't collect what's not there. Cause, meet effect.

Posted by Barbara 2011-07-06 13:31|| 2011-07-06 13:31|| Front Page Top

#4 "the regime shifted its priority from the military to the party"

That is the key phrase, and it's a humdinger. To shift resources from the military to the party is as dangerous a gambit as it gets in a totalitarian state.

When Stalin died, the two candidates were queried by the military with one question: "guns or butter?" The other guy said "butter", but Khrushchev said "guns", so the military made him the boss. But Khrushchev double crossed the military and went for "butter".

So when the opportunity presented itself, the military displaced him. And before they would permit Brezhnev to have the job, they got iron clad guarantees for "guns".

But it enraged Brezhnev. So he spent all his time in office preparing for a major purge of the military. And only when he knew he was going to die, he launched it.

It started out when much of the naval staff, the most radical branch, was (theoretically) wiped out in a plane crash at sea. Literally dozens of top ranked admirals wiped out all at once.

Then their air defenses staff were next, but done individually. Car crashes, heart attacks, slip and falls, it was a bloodbath. About that time, I saw an Soviet command staff poster just covered with red "X's" from all the assassinations.

And this sort of thing works both ways. In Nork, there could be a night of the long knives of party officials, conducted by the military. These are not nice people.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-07-06 16:46|| 2011-07-06 16:46|| Front Page Top

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