Russia's Medvedev hails "comrade" Obama

Associated Foreign Press (AFP) ^ | April 2, 2009 | Anna Smolchenko

[ETL]

We have become so friggin stupid as a people, thanks to the head-up-their-butt media and apathy on our part, that it was a relatively simple task to do what they’ve done. It only took them a few decades.

[Gritty]

America is in deep, deep kimchi...

[ETL]

Wow! ‘Creepy’ would be a vast understatement.

[MadelineZapeezda]

In the early years of Soviet power in Russia, the Bolsheviks used "Comrade" when adressing or referring to people assumed sympathetic to the revolution and to the Soviet state, such as members of the Communist party (and originally of other pro-revolution leftist formations such as the Left SR) and people from the "working masses". The more neutral republican form of address was "Citizen". Accordingly, Tsarist counter-revolutionaries in the Russian Civil War would use "Comrades" mockingly as a derogatory term for their enemies - although at the same time, the various socialist anti-Bolshevik forces such as the Socialist Revolutionaries and the Mensheviks also used "Comrade" among themselves.

[TexasRepublic]

“my new comrade”

Straight from the horse’s mouth [or behind].

[ScottinVA]

“So why are they and the ChiComs trying to establish a “new international order” and holding their third set of joint military exercises since 2005? Why are they building up Chavez? Why are they talking about bases in Cuba?”

I was just making a point re: the economic side. Of course, on authoritarian and anti-USA matters, Medvedev is as bad as Putin.