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Russia: North Korean leader to visit Moscow for Victory Day
Customwireap ^ | March 17, 2015

Posted on 03/17/2015 2:01:43 PM PDT by COUNTrecount

Edited on 03/17/2015 2:37:44 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

MOSCOW (AP) -- The leader of North Korea is among 26 world leaders who have accepted invitations to Moscow to take part in celebrations marking the 70th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Tuesday.


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1 posted on 03/17/2015 2:01:43 PM PDT by COUNTrecount
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To: COUNTrecount

Russia never changes, they are still part of the alliance of evil.


2 posted on 03/17/2015 2:04:09 PM PDT by ansel12 (Palin--Mr President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.)
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Who else is in the alliance besides Russia?


3 posted on 03/17/2015 2:06:58 PM PDT by sparklite2
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To: COUNTrecount; Berlin_Freeper; Greetings_Puny_Humans; lormand; goldstategop; GeronL; BCW; ...
Soviet Tigers Don't Change Their Stripes.

http://youtu.be/D4x_OmqGs40?t=12m5s

4 posted on 03/17/2015 2:07:06 PM PDT by KC_Lion (The Issue is Not The Issue, The Issue is The Revolution.)
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To: sparklite2

China for one, Russia is a force for evil and maintains alliances and friendships with the evil forces on the globe.


5 posted on 03/17/2015 2:10:02 PM PDT by ansel12 (Palin--Mr President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Do they have enough food for Dear Leader?


6 posted on 03/17/2015 2:15:35 PM PDT by thesharkboy (posting without reading the article since 1998)
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To: COUNTrecount
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is among those staying away from the parade,

I'm not surprised. The Germans have historically not enjoyed parades in Moscow:

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7 posted on 03/17/2015 2:16:03 PM PDT by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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8 posted on 03/17/2015 2:18:57 PM PDT by COUNTrecount (Race Baiting...... "It's What's For Breakfast")
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To: COUNTrecount

Perfect time for a Nork coup.


9 posted on 03/17/2015 2:35:15 PM PDT by captain_dave
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To: COUNTrecount

A guy who starves his civilians to barely feed his army, is such a great guy to honor. But hey, they’ve got the bomb.


10 posted on 03/17/2015 2:37:39 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (The question is Jeb Bush. The answer is NO!)
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Yeah, true that! I’ll bet there’s maybe a hundred Germans, or may two hundred out of that whole group who ever made it back to Germany.


11 posted on 03/17/2015 2:42:54 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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I’ll bet there’s maybe a hundred Germans, or may two hundred out of that whole group who ever made it back to Germany.

That's still a higher percentage of Russian Prisoners taken by the Nazis who made it back to Russia.

And the few who actually did make it back, most likely wound up in a Siberian Gulag.

12 posted on 03/17/2015 2:44:53 PM PDT by dfwgator
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Yeah, you’re right. The ones Stalin didn’t throw in the gulag were left to fend for themselves literally like animals. They were known in some place as ‘’men of the forest’’ because they were forced to live a feral lifestyle.


13 posted on 03/17/2015 2:49:37 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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Operation Keelhaul was not our finest moment.


14 posted on 03/17/2015 2:51:46 PM PDT by dfwgator
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I may have one of their rifles.


15 posted on 03/17/2015 3:04:21 PM PDT by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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No, Keelhaul was not a proud moment. There are stories of “liberated” Russian POWs committing suicide when they heard they were going “home.” And not all of them were Vlasovites.

As for the Germans, they didn’t get returned until 1955, after Stalin died and Adenauer went to Moscow. The price was recognition of East Germany and acceptance of a more or less permanent partition of the country.

As for the Russians wanting to celebrate May 8 as the 70th Anniversary of their big win, I don’t have problem with that. With an estimated 11,000,000 military deaths and perhaps 20,000,000 more civilians dead in the war, I think they earned it. Even if I have no love for their current despot.


16 posted on 03/17/2015 3:18:43 PM PDT by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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It’s important to remember Old Joe was happy to stroll down the garden path with Old Adolph invading Poland(three weeks after the Germans did most of the heavy lifting) and carving up the Baltic States and sitting in the Kremlin chuckling at night while the Luftwaffe pounded the crap out of London. Sorry but I don’t work up too admiration for the Russkies. They were only our ally because Hitler decided to end the partnership with them in June of ‘41.


17 posted on 03/17/2015 3:51:36 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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To: gundog

German or Russian?


18 posted on 03/17/2015 3:55:03 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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To: KC_Lion

Bump


19 posted on 03/17/2015 4:14:00 PM PDT by GeronL
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German is what I meant...Soviet capture, bit I’ve got some Russians, too.


20 posted on 03/18/2015 1:10:23 PM PDT by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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