Moscow just came unglued

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

Eh, I don't know. He couldn't keep the country together and then did commercials.

I wouldn't go as far as to call the USSR a real country seeing how the Baltics were being illegally occupied at the time.

[eekee 182]

Is there an eye-rolling icon? I am on my phone.

[SMR 368]

I wouldn't go as far as to call the USSR a real country seeing how the Baltics were being illegally occupied at the time.

So is Texas. And what about Alaska and Hawaii?

[eekee 182]

Or the fact that America is basically entirely built on Native American stomping grounds. Or the British Empire. Or the Japanese occupation of Korea. Or really any other major world power ever.

Edited December 30, 2011 by eekee

[Ban Hammer 13,110]

Is there an eye-rolling icon? I am on my phone.

[visaveteran1 33]

So is Texas. And what about Alaska and Hawaii?

We bought Alaska from...my my...the Russians. But most countries are built through conquest. To the victor, go the spoils.

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

So is Texas. And what about Alaska and Hawaii?

I have no idea about Hawaii, but I know Texas voted to get into the US as long as they were known as "The Republic of Texas", and Alaska voted to get into the US. The Alaska natives up here wouldn't have it any other way. It was different with the Baltics. Red Army troops invaded the Baltics after the Molotov - Ribbentrop Pact and proceeded to deport thousands of Lithuanians, Latvians, and Estonians to Soviet labor camps in Russia Far East and Siberia. Read up on it if you have never heard of this before. Start with googling "Molotov - Ribbentrop Pact",and "NKVD deportations".

At the end of WW2 the same thing happened again. Red Army troops invaded the Baltics in pursuit of the Germans and proceeded to deport thousands of more of those people but only after they took their time raping, stealing and murdering which was a Red Army favorite past time. Google "Soviet War Crimes" if you don't know of this.

Another one for you to google is "The Singing Revolution" and the "Relocation of the Bronze Soldier". The USSR was nothing more than a bunch of thugs illegally occupying Eastern Europe among other countries like the "Soviet Stans and Caucuses".

While your at it here's a few more for you to google: "Hungary Revolution 1956", East German Workers Rebellion" and "Prague Spring 1968", "Iron Curtain", "Berlin Wall", "Occupation of the Baltics", "Occupation of Poland", Occupation of Hungary","Checkpoint Charlie", "Soviet citizens seek asylum to the West", "Soviet invasion of Western Ukraine" and "Lech Walesa".

[eekee 182]

Because no other country did similar things and it delegitimizes the fact that the USSR was ever a country? Come on.

If the Confederacy has won the Civil War, I doubt that either part of what was once the USA would be singing the praises of Abraham Lincoln. Gorbachev lost the Cold War, more or less.

[slim 1,514]

I asked my MIL about Putin a few days ago. She said Russia loves Putin. When I told her I saw pictures of Moscovites protesting she said, "Russia is very big. Russia is not Moscow."

[eekee 182]

I'd imagine it has to do with age, too. The protests were all over the place, not just Moscow.

Edited January 2, 2012 by eekee

[Ban Hammer 13,110]

I asked my MIL about Putin a few days ago. She said Russia loves Putin. When I told her I saw pictures of Moscovites protesting she said, "Russia is very big. Russia is not Moscow."

maybe she thinks her phone is tapped....

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

maybe she thinks her phone is tapped....

Probably a "Party line".

[visaveteran1 33]

maybe she thinks her phone is tapped....

Calls to the USA...count on it.

[ONA 133]

maybe she thinks her phone is tapped....

meh... who cares... Navalny only spent 15 days in prison and took part in the rallies afterwards.

eekee is right - a lot of retired people tend to like Putin. Young/middle-aged people - not so much.

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

meh... who cares... Navalny only spent 15 days in prison and took part in the rallies afterwards.

eekee is right - a lot of retired people tend to like Putin. Young/middle-aged people - not so much.

15 days is a lot better than catching a bullet in the back of the head on a Moscow street in broad daylight. Lucky for Navalny he doesn't work for Novaya Gazeta.