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Old 19-01-2013, 19:20   #149
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Re: Oh Hum its a funny old world

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Originally Posted by Gordon Booth View Post
Admirable brevity. It usually takes you a lot more than two lines to give us the benifit of your more profound thoughts.
I must admit, though, I'm slightly dissapointed.

I'm always a little surprised when anyone can still express any sort of approval for Stalin or the communist way of doing things. We should remember he killed far more of his own people than the Germans ever managed and at far less cost. Letting millions of people starve to death costs nothing . Perhaps if he hadn't decimated the USSR they would have won the war quicker and at less cost.
Throughout his reign left wing armchair politicians in the West expressed admiration for him from the comfort of their safe little homes.
Some people still ignore history.
Some people still ignore history, and some, you seem to be one, just don't understand it. You seem to be fixated on Stalin as a socialist. I don't think anyone on here sees Stalin as anything other than a lunatic. Many probably look at the Soviet Union and see State Capitalism, not socialism or communism. The Soviet Union became a form of Timocracy when Stalin took over, passed quickly into tyranny, and then swiftly degenerated.

I'm relieved to see that you don't discount the Soviet contribution to winning WWll, a testimony to the determination and fortitude of the Russian people rather than to their politics.


In spite of its faults the Soviet Union has had some remarkable achievements: Operation Bagration, which destroyed Army Group Centre and effectively neutered the Wehrmacht; the top tank (according to the Hitory Channels' list), the T 34; the top combat rifle (same source), the AK 47 ... we could do with a few milliion less of those in the world; the first man in space, Dan Dare; the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova; the most reliable and best designed automobile, the Lada; great vodka; fantastic hot-looking women ... I'm getting carried away here.

Oh, the next bus leaving for the International Space Station will be a Soyuz.

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