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Russian Communist Leader Warns of Consequences of U.S. Strikes on Afghanistan
Russia Today | Oct 1, 2001

Posted on 10/01/2001 2:20:28 PM PDT by Sawdring

MOSCOW, Oct 1, 2001 -- (BBC Monitoring) Text of report in English by Russian news agency Interfax.

Russian Communist Party Leader Gennadiy Zyuganov sharply criticized U.S. plans for retaliatory strikes in Afghanistan.

"If they go ahead with the plan, a large war may break out. None of the goals of fighting terrorism will be achieved. The strike will lead only to more sorrow," he told a news conference in Moscow today.

Russia must act very cautiously, Zyuganov said. "They (the Americans) will flee from there in a week or two while we, if we get dragged into it, will stay on the Jalalabad-Kandahar line," he said.

The Russian army cannot do much now, Zyuganov said.

U.S. activities are moving the planet 500 years back, "to the times of brigandage and banditry", he said.

Source: Interfax news agency, Moscow, in English 0911 GMT 1 October 01


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1 posted on 10/01/2001 2:20:28 PM PDT by Sawdring
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To: Sawdring
How much would it cost to have the mafia off this scumbag? I've been reading his garbage for a couple of years now. It was funny at first but now he just makes me sick. I'd rather hear from some other Commie dirtbag. Variety is the spice of life.
2 posted on 10/01/2001 2:23:55 PM PDT by American Soldier
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To: Sawdring
Gee I wonder how far back the Communist put the world?
3 posted on 10/01/2001 2:25:27 PM PDT by bluetoad
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To: Sawdring
U.S. activities are moving the planet 500 years back, "to the times of brigandage and banditry", he said.

I'm not sure to what U.S. activities he is referring; but he is correct that the outcome of the pursuit of globalization will not be order, but anarchy.

I have also read that any attempt to remove the Taliban will result in a power vacuum in that part of the world. With Russia, China and Iran, among others vying for influence. This seems to me an accurate analysis.

4 posted on 10/01/2001 2:27:14 PM PDT by independentmind
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To: Sawdring
This schmuck is not their leader. Vlad Putin is their leader, and he is behind us 100%. This guy is just a bitter old ex-Cold Warrior who only knows how to bash the US since his own party turned out to be a paper tiger.
5 posted on 10/01/2001 2:32:43 PM PDT by gopgen
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To: Sawdring
The communists were responsible for the slaugher of about 80 million of their own people in the last century!

This moaning and crying shows the connections with the mass murdering terrorists of 9/11 with the mass murderers of about 80 million in the last century!

This scumbag could care less about peace or civilization, he doesn't want his buddies, the super rich arab terrorist to have a bad day. They probably fund his pitiful Russian Communist Party and keep it barely alive.

Again follow the money when clymers like this one worry about the planet and humanity!

6 posted on 10/01/2001 2:33:41 PM PDT by Grampa Dave
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To: Grampa Dave
Well, actually 30 million and over 30 years. 80 million would have been one in 3 people, a rediculous number. Sorry but it's a fact.
7 posted on 10/01/2001 2:52:01 PM PDT by Stavka2
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To: Sawdring
Not brigandage! Anything but that!
8 posted on 10/01/2001 2:55:08 PM PDT by patlaw_guy
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To: Stavka2
Actually as noted below, not just the poor Russians killed by their own commie leaders, the Chinese killed and starved to death, the victims of the N. Koreans, Cubans and the millions who died in SE Asia after we left Nam! In China, the figures continue to climb! Last estimate I saw for total deaths in the past century due to communism was 80 million.

I did not put in the deaths in Africa, the Balkans, eastern Europe, including Poland and ??????

Sorry about that, but you were correct about 30 million dead Russians or people of the various republics. We will probably never know the total.

I would also count the 50,000 Americans who were killed in the Korean conflict and the 50,000 killed in V. Nam! They were killed by communists!

I have a retired CIA friend who firmly believes the total killed by communism directly and indirectly in the last century was at least 100 million souls! Yet our left wingers are still in mad lust for the commie regimes and love Tio Castro!

Thanks for the heads up and question re my reply!

10 posted on 10/01/2001 3:28:24 PM PDT by Grampa Dave
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To: gopgen,Sawdring
Yeah, Zyuganov does not represent Russia. He would have Lenin's body on his desk to worship if he could. Idle rhetoric from an outdated mind.
11 posted on 10/01/2001 3:29:58 PM PDT by Sender
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To: Grampa Dave
I've heard governments have killed 100 million in the last 100 years. But, of course, a lot died due to Hitler.
12 posted on 10/01/2001 3:35:39 PM PDT by jlogajan
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To: independentmind
"I have also read that any attempt to remove the Taliban will result in a power vacuum in that part of the world. With Russia, China and Iran, among others vying for influence. This seems to me an accurate analysis."

Having Russia, China and Iraq at each other's throat would be a coup for the USA!

We should encourage it!

13 posted on 10/01/2001 3:44:05 PM PDT by albee
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To: albee
Re: Post #13

IRAQ Should read IRAN.

14 posted on 10/01/2001 3:48:49 PM PDT by albee
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To: jlogajan
Hitler and his SS fans were terrible people for what they did. However when it come to total kill, these Nazis were pikers versus the communists. I don't have the data but the Nazis were minor league versus total kill for the commies!

Yet our left wing mediots since the terrrible beginnings of slaughter by the communists in the 1920's have ignored their slaughter and focused on the slaughter by the Nazis!

The New York Slimes is the worst. They have lied and spiked the horrible truth about the slaughter by the communists for 80 years. They are still pro Castro and hide the realities of the ChiComs.

I don't have time today to look up the actual stats, maybe some great Freeper will post the total kill for the commies and the total kill for the Nazis during the last century!

15 posted on 10/01/2001 3:48:55 PM PDT by Grampa Dave
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