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    Let's just hope they were fascist communist kittens who were on their way to international fascist communist fair.

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    Soviet Union may have been a oppresive bunch of *******s to eastern europe but their anthem did kick ass.
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    Ironically sovietman comes out of a night lit america ... ooooh wierd !!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kiljan View Post
    Soviet Union may have been a oppresive bunch of *******s to eastern europe but their anthem did kick ass.
    The song is beautiful and all, even I know it in both - hungarian and russian, because we were forced to learn it, along with other russian songs. It's nice and all, but after singing it the thousandth time and knowing that hundreds and possibly thousands were executed , while others were singing it, makes it tainted, just like the Horst-Wessel-Lied- Nazi Hitler Jugend song.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kiljan View Post
    Soviet Union may have been a oppresive bunch of *******s to eastern europe but their anthem did kick ass.
    They still use the same song as their national anthem, just different words.

    Ironically sovietman comes out of a night lit america ... ooooh wierd !!!
    Must be because he just conquered the USA and turned it into a communist dictatorship, which was the main goal of the Soviet Union (or so the neocons believed).



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    Actually it was. Just as our goal was to defeat it and turn it into a democracy. And see how sucessful we've been.
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    Problem is Russia would have needed large amounts of american support at the fall of the soviet union to have turned out any better.. so much support it would appear as if it was being occupied.

    Let's just hope they were fascist communist kittens who were on their way to international fascist communist fair.

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    I really think we were sucessful.
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    I weep for Russia,

    Such a great and rich culture, nearly effaced for 100 years, all for the idea of man working in complete co-operation and dependence upon one another.


    That is why I hate Communism and the Soviet Union.
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    Okay, that aside; cool anthem in the background. Unfortunate they only play the first bars to it.
    Freaky picture, though.

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    the Horst-Wessel-Lied- Nazi Hitler Jugend song.
    Horst Wessel song wasn't the HJ tune. It was an SA marching song, and then the general Party Anthem.

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    My favourite part of the pic is the moustache... the moustache is truly whats makes it....

    Let's just hope they were fascist communist kittens who were on their way to international fascist communist fair.

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    Quote Originally Posted by humvee2800 View Post
    Modern russian politics summed up in a photo
    I don't think Russian politics can be summed up in that photo. The return to communism is minimal but propaganda about this "great" age, when Russia was a vast superpower, is abound. That has more to do with nationalism though.

    Such a great and rich culture, nearly effaced for 100 years, all for the idea of man working in complete co-operation and dependence upon one another.

    That is why I hate Communism and the Soviet Union.
    Well, one has to really turn a blind eye on a lot of stuff of said prerevolution society to not understand how many Russians came to the conclusion that it might be a good idea.
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    I think Russia is more like this


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    Quote Originally Posted by Estlander View Post
    I think Russia is more like this

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    Quote Originally Posted by Avarius Federalus View Post
    Such a great and rich culture, nearly effaced for 100 years, all for the idea of man working in complete co-operation and dependence upon one another.


    That is why I hate Communism and the Soviet Union.
    Yeah, things were so much better when the Czars were still around.
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    To be fair, the nation made a lot of advances from 1905-1914.
    While we probably wouldn't have had breakneck growth rates of the 1930s (over 100% a year in many areas), there would be a greater industrial base (owing to the lack of a civil war and the scorched earth policy during it) and people would eventually acquire some rights.





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    Quote Originally Posted by Avarius Federalus View Post
    Such a great and rich culture, nearly effaced for 100 years, all for the idea of man working in complete co-operation and dependence upon one another.
    actually, they succeeded remarkably, if you judge current generations of people. they are much more helpful to each other and attentitive to each other's need than anyone in the West ever would.

    there is a noticable dramatic difference even between Eastern Germans and the Western Germans. now go and say that socialism has nothing to do with it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Estlander View Post
    I think Russia is more like this

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    Judging the Communist Revolution in Russia by only taking the opressive nature of the regime, wich had to fight a LOT of opposition especialy from the Political establishment and conservative parts of the military, is like judging the French liberal Revolution by the Reign of Terror and Robbespiere or the "English Revolution" (the events around the End of the Stuart Dynasty) judging by Cromwell's reign.

    Using this logic I could argue liberal democracy the ideal behind the French Revolution is bound to become a oppressive regime pursuing agressive politics towards it's neighbours and enforcing it's ideals upon other nations. ^
    Anyone remembering Napoleon ?
    G. W Bus.. oops nevermind ^^

    Revolutions wether they are trying to create a liberal democracy or a socialist society have a strong tendency of creating an opressive system due to the radical nature inherent to any revolution (you have to overthrow the whole political establishent and alter the society!).
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    actually, they succeeded remarkably, if you judge current generations of people. they are much more helpful to each other and attentitive to each other's need than anyone in the West ever would.
    That's more the result of cultural conservatism rather than of communism (although the two were intertwined in the Soviet era).
    The west, most of which abandoned conservatism partially after WWI and fully after WWII, is merely reaping the fruits of a society with no concept of respect for anything other than special interest groups.





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