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15 years after Soviet collapse, Russians nostalgic for superpower

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Dec 7, 2006, 16:46 GMT


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Yesterday, not Yesteryear.Dec 7th, 2006 - 21:06:13

Yes, folks, Russians long for the old days, when they had totalitarians, killing of dissenters, nursing a wrecked economy, elitist Marxist monarchistic rule, stifling corruption, zero value currency, mass human rights violations...

This wasn't Yesteryear, this was Yesterday!

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Michael J. DykesDec 12th, 2006 - 22:19:49

The Soviet Union was a brutal, ruthless, heartless regime characterized by hypocrisy, massive human rights violations, and a near total lack of credibility in the community of nations. Only North Korea, Cuba, Libya, and Iraq felt comfortable with it because they, like the Russian Communist Party, were rife with mindless corruption and bought everything from the controlling Mafia.
Now, Russians are talking about getting it all back?
Somehow it may happen that anyone who brings it back will feel the wrath of people who had their first breath of freedom in 1991. Russian Mafiosi now find themselves in prison instead of people who merely owned a copy of Life Magazine. Russia has Boy Scouting and Girl Scouting, instead of compulsory membership in Communist Youth -- miss a meeting and mother will pay for it in bitter tears. Yet a few American leftists support that totalitarian monster, because they like the soft life of those who ran the Soviet Empire, but failed to comprehend the bitter existence of the other 99% of people in that desperate place.
The end of communism there means the end of communist designs on the American people here. We are well ahead to continue helping Russians regain their newly found sense of national pride and good offices with their newly free neighbors.
What good is the use of tanks to 'enforce the peace on dissidents' when no one there was ever free?

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