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The American Who Tells Russia How Bad Things Are in America.
WSJ ^ | April 18, 2013 | Alan Cullison

Posted on 04/21/2013 2:25:01 AM PDT by cunning_fish

Moscow Radio's Tim Kirby Says the American Dream Is Better Found in Russia

MOSCOW—In Russia, the voice of America is strong again.

Alexander Nefyodov hears it every Thursday when he tunes in from the Arctic port city of Murmansk. "It's so interesting to hear from an American about how America really works," he says.

It isn't quite the radio of days past. Soviet-era beacons like Radio Liberty and the BBC have lost their place on Russian airwaves, and now the Kremlin is offering a fresher voice: Tim Kirby, an expatriate from the suburbs of Cleveland, who says he wants Russian citizenship and says Joseph Stalin was a better leader than he has been portrayed in history books.

On radio shows on Moscow's state-controlled Radio Mayak and in frequent appearances on state television, Mr. Kirby is making a name for himself inside Russia as a kind of Kremlin-appointed Joe the Plumber who explains a broken America to Russian listeners.

"We Russians think that whenever something goes bad here that it must be better in America," says Mr. Nefyodov, 25, who works in a small family wholesale grocery business. Now he says he knows "that things are worse or the same over there."

As the Kremlin rallied support for its ban on U.S. adoptions of Russian orphans imposed late last year, Mr. Kirby, who is 31, appeared on prime-time talk shows to say that one quarter of American children take pills that affect their brains,

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TOPICS: Government; History; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: americandream; bhorussia; democrats; russia; ussa
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To: fieldmarshaldj
"Tim Kirby, an expatriate from the suburbs of Cleveland, who says ... Joseph Stalin was a better leader than he has been portrayed in history books." Are you kidding me ? One of the greatest mass-murderers of all time ?

Yep, Stalin was right up there in body count with the abortion industry in this country. The Nazis were novices compared to Uncle Joe, Mao, and Planned Parenthood.
21 posted on 04/21/2013 5:36:38 AM PDT by klgator
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To: CivilWarguy

or “60 Minutes”

maybe he can form a new team with Trotskyite Ed Asner


22 posted on 04/21/2013 5:37:56 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change)
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To: cunning_fish
"We Russians think that whenever something goes bad here that it must be better in America," says Mr. Nefyodov, 25, who works in a small family wholesale grocery business. Now he says he knows "that things are worse or the same over there."

This was true in days gone by, but now, since the same ideology that took your country down has infected US, we are just about as sick and twisted by this mental disease as you were.

23 posted on 04/21/2013 6:32:35 AM PDT by GBA (Here in the Matrix, life is but a dream.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

He specifically mentions Rwanda on the page I linked, and links to another page that discusses it in depth:
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/WF.CHAP6.HTM

Iran and Iraq are at least in the detailed table here:
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.TAB16A.1.GIF

which is also linked to from the page I linked.

Anything having to do with current events would be 21st Century, and thus out of scope for that page.

Dr. Rummel is pretty darn thorough.


24 posted on 04/21/2013 6:35:26 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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