Posted on 08/19/2005 4:09:22 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
"YOU ARE WRONG AGAIN. I do not always defend Putin"
Gary, do I have this right? - here you are crying that you are not a Putin lackey and then you trot out every Kremlin spin line there is.
"however on this point he is somewhat justified "
"you do not see and admit what the EU, Poland, and the U.S. invested far more in monies and help than Russia"
"If yes, then you would know Putin is up against a determined enemy, and has to fight them "
"The press in Russia is in many cases run by the oligarchs, which are anti-Putin."
I suggest a new title to the article.
"US calls for withdraw time table from Chechnya for Russian troops."
Red6
http://www.ukrweekly.com/Archive/1988/458814.shtml
"The famine of 1921-1923 was only the first of three such tragedies inflicted upon the Ukrainian nation by the Communist regime. The other two took place in 1932-1933 and 1946-1947"
And don't forget the even lesser known 1947 famine which killed nearly a million and set the stage for Mao to starve 20 million within the next few years.
"I deny that the bulk of Gulag prisoners were Russian. "
From Anne Applebaum "Gulag a History", Chapter The Prisoners. She spent many months researching the Gulag archives, interviewing the survivors in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Baltics, Poland, etc.
"Odd things it sounds, in most camps there was no clans for Russians, the ethnic group which formed the decided majority in the camps, according to the Gulag's own statistics, throughout their existence. Russians did, it is true, attach themselves to one another according to what city or part of the country they came from, Muscovites found other Muscovites, Leningraders other Leningraders and so on."
Actually from this point of view - you ought to know it too. :(
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