http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/soviet/ en-us Fri, 7 Jun 2013 21:33:18 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3028690/posts THE White House has confirmed that US intelligence agencies have been collecting data held by Facebook, Google, Apple and other web giants for nearly six years in a bid to ward off threats to national security. The confirmation of a “classified program” giving agents access to material stored by some of the biggest internet companies was triggered by a report in The Guardian claiming that the National Security Agency (NSA) has had direct access to the servers used by web giants like Facebook and Google since 2007. The Week http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3028690/posts#comment Fri, 7 Jun 2013 21:33:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3018117/posts A camera hidden inside of a coat jacket, controlled by a hand held mechanism. A wrist–gun that is attached to a glove, can be hidden under a sleeve. A special listening device. A 4.5mm gun hidden inside of a lipstick. A gun hidden inside of a tobacco pipe. A camera hidden inside of a pen. This gun fires a dual cyanide charge that can kill almost instantly. Cufflinks with recessions to hide things An ancient coin that has a recess in it to hide things. A jacket button that can be turned into a compass. A transmitting device inside of... imgur.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3018117/posts#comment Sat, 11 May 2013 04:09:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3015045/posts While covering a May Day rally in Manhattan’s Union Square on Wednesday, NBC New York reporter Ida Siegal was cornered and asked if her network planned to show the communist imagery the protesters were displaying. Hilarity ensued when Siegal immediately became defensive, denying she had seen any communist imagery and asking of the “Hammer-and-Sickle” flags: “What do they represent?” “You guys are with channel 4 news,” the videographer noted while addressing Siegal and her production team. “Are you guys going to show any of the people with Hammer and Sickle flags?” “I haven’t seen any of those flags,” Siegal replied... Mediaite http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3015045/posts#comment Thu, 2 May 2013 20:36:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2993649/posts A Soviet soldier who went missing in Afghanistan nearly 33 years ago has been found living with Afghans in the western province of Herat. The soldier is semi-nomadic, has the adopted Afghan name Sheikh Abdullah and practises herbal medicine, Russia's RIA news agency reports. An ethnic Uzbek, he was found by ex-Soviet veterans of the war. Click link for rest of article BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2993649/posts#comment Tue, 5 Mar 2013 16:01:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2989221/posts I was just browsing YouTube and I came across this video; I thought I might share it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KurgemG4H5c YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2989221/posts#comment Sat, 16 Feb 2013 20:55:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2975200/posts This week the Taliban said the transfer of U.S. and NATO led security operations to Afghan security forces was similar to America’s retreat from Vietnam by the “declaring victory and run” strategy. The Taliban just needed to learn a little American history to know about the Vietnamization Strategy where the US would train the Afghans to fight their own battles and allow American and NATO to withdrawal with honor. Like the North Vietnamese, the Taliban can already declare victory. Who can blame them with this Administration too busy kowtowing to the Muslim Brotherhood and doing nothing to Iran? Taliban leadership... Coach is Right http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2975200/posts#comment Sat, 5 Jan 2013 16:22:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2970127/posts The wreck of a Soviet submarine lost during World War Two has been found in the Baltic Sea, 71 years after it sank, the Swedish Military said on Monday. The Swedish Armed Forces said the submarine, believed to have been lost on patrol in late 1941, was found in the Swedish economic zone southeast of the Baltic island of Oland in an area which German forces had mined during the war. "There is much to indicate that the submarine headed straight into the minefield while on the surface and was blown apart by a mine," the military said in a... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2970127/posts#comment Wed, 19 Dec 2012 01:49:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2966234/posts The carton below is from Soviet Communist Russian times. You can see how the capitalist system is depicted as slavery - the opposite of how communism works, IE., free money, multiplied and returned to the worker - in the right frame. Tell me Obama does not think differently. And, as many Americans kill off Christmas as the celebration of the birth of Jesus, so the Soviets replaced Saint Nick with "Father Frost" - a man who gives out presents because he is a generous communist. From Wikipedia Ded Moroz "Following the Russian Revolution, Christmas traditions were actively discouraged because they... JoeClarke.Net http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2966234/posts#comment Thu, 6 Dec 2012 16:58:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2961324/posts Georgia lawmakers sat in a seminar involving the UN’s controversial Cold War era mind control techniques used to move Agenda 21 forward. The seminar, as could be expected, was roundly mocked by the media even though the UN makes no secret of their abominable plans for the world’s future. Western Journalism Center http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2961324/posts#comment Tue, 20 Nov 2012 01:37:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2959690/posts The Weirdest Monuments Of The Communist Era That Are Still Standing After the fall of the Soviet Union, many Communist statues and sculptures were destroyed, while others were moved to statue parks or museums. But many of them remained in the same place for the last 20 years, while the former Soviet areas were transformed into modern countries. Here are thirteen of the most incredible ones. Click to enlarge images below. 1. Lenin's giant head, Ulan-Ude, Republic of Buryatia, Russia The 42 ton, 25 foot tall head of former Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin is standing in Ulan-Ude. Built in 1970,... IO9 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2959690/posts#comment Thu, 15 Nov 2012 02:52:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2955426/posts Screen Shot at link. Obama for America http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2955426/posts#comment Tue, 6 Nov 2012 01:39:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2947868/posts You thought the whole 'EUSSR' thing was over the top? Have a look at this poster Take a close look at this promotional poster. Notice anything? Alongside the symbols of Christianity, Judaism, Jainism and so on is one of the wickedest emblems humanity has conceived: the hammer and sickle. For three generations, the badge of the Soviet revolution meant poverty, slavery, torture and death. It adorned the caps of the chekas who came in the night. It opened and closed the propaganda films which hid the famines. It advertised the people's courts where victims of purges and show-trials were condemned.... The Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2947868/posts#comment Sat, 20 Oct 2012 22:12:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2946996/posts Attention conservation notice: Over 7800 words about optimal planning for a socialist economy and its intersection with computational complexity theory. This is about as relevant to the world around us as debating whether a devotee of the Olympian gods should approve of transgenic organisms. (Or: centaurs, yes or no?) Contains mathematical symbols (uglified and rendered slightly inexact by HTML) but no actual math, and uses Red Plenty mostly as a launching point for a tangent. There’s lots to say about Red Plenty as a work of literature; I won’t do so. It’s basically a work of speculative fiction, where one... Crooked Timber.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2946996/posts#comment Fri, 19 Oct 2012 02:39:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2929339/posts New evidence appears to back the idea that the Roosevelt administration helped cover up Soviet guilt for the 1940 Katyn massacre of Polish soldiers. Historians said documents, released by the US National Archives, supported the suspicion that the US did not want to anger its wartime ally, Joseph Stalin. They showed the US was sent coded messages suggesting the Soviets, not the Nazis, carried out the massacre. More than 22,000 Poles were killed by the Soviets on Stalin's orders. Soviet Russia only admitted to the atrocity in 1990 after blaming the Nazis for five decades. According to a review of... BBC News Europe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2929339/posts#comment Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:22:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2929018/posts The American POWs sent secret coded messages to Washington with news of a Soviet atrocity: In 1943 they saw rows of corpses in an advanced state of decay in the Katyn forest, on the western edge of Russia, proof that the killers could not have been the Nazis who had only recently occupied the area. Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2929018/posts#comment Mon, 10 Sep 2012 17:25:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2922042/posts A new film from America’s Survival, Inc. documents what journalist Cliff Kincaid calls “one of the most extraordinary cover-ups in American history --how a presidential candidate with a covert connection to a major Communist Party operative was protected by the major liberal and conservative media. The_UnvettedWorking with blogger Trevor Loudon, Kincaid describes in the film how they uncovered the fact that Obama had concealed the identity of Frank Marshall Davis in his memoir Dreams from My Father, calling him just “Frank” and depicting him as a poet and writer. “Obama knew that Frank Marshall Davis was an associate and mentor... Right Side News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2922042/posts#comment Thu, 23 Aug 2012 18:08:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2912132/posts Looks like a 1970s Soviet poster, good grief    Alas, nothing new coming from this bunch... Reaganite Republican http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2912132/posts#comment Sun, 29 Jul 2012 18:49:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2908542/posts A technical department in a Soviet university. An introductory lecture. The professor: For a start I'll explain to you, who an engineer is. There is a factory which receives daily a truckload of alcohol necessary for its operating. The factory has a huge tank with a tap to hold the alcohol. A female employee uses the tap to distribute the alcohol according to written orders. After each shift the tank is emptied with the same tap. Now I have a question to you all: How will an engineer steel some alcohol from the tank?" http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2908542/posts#comment Fri, 20 Jul 2012 08:02:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2902566/posts I remember reading this in 1983. It is propaganda, but still an interesting read. SOVIET MILITARY POWER http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2902566/posts#comment Wed, 4 Jul 2012 01:27:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2880010/posts An interview with a socialist at a May 1st rally. youtube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2880010/posts#comment Fri, 4 May 2012 21:40:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2869328/posts An Extremely Creepy Tour of an Abandoned Soviet Monument in Bulgaria Remember those derelict Bulgarian war memorials that resemble space fortresses? Well, it turns out they're just as otherworldly inside. Here's one intrepid urban explorer's journey into the shadowy corridors of the shuttered Bulgarian-Soviet Friendship memorial in Varna, Bulgaria. It's also a case study on why you never tour old Soviet monuments alone. In its Communist heyday, the "Park-Monument of the Bulgarian-Soviet Friendship" contained an eternal flame, a bomb shelter, and a tourism center. Loudspeakers would also blast Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 on constant loop. The center opened in... IO9 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2869328/posts#comment Sat, 7 Apr 2012 17:31:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2824810/posts Twenty years ago this Christmas day, Mikhail Gorbachev gave a speech announcing “I hereby discontinue my activities at the post of President of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.” And with that, the totalitarian and murderous construct of the USSR, already uncoupled earlier that month by Russian President Boris Yeltsin and the presidents of Ukraine and Belarus, was no more. These were monumental events. Yet so tumultuous is the world right now that the 20th anniversary of the Soviet collapse is figuring as little more than a footnote in the news. In Russia itself, the events of the hour are... Rosett Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2824810/posts#comment Sun, 25 Dec 2011 03:44:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2822110/posts Rebel Chinese villagers demand elections, test Communist Party authority Published: 10:21AM Monday December 19, 2011 Protesting Chinese villagers today demanded that central leaders defuse grievances about what they called crooked land deals and a suspicious death, as a revolt that has tested Communist Party authority in this semi-rural area neared its second week. Residents of Wukan Village in Guangdong province have driven off officials, erected makeshift barricades to deter police, and held protest gatherings and marches daily after the death in custody last weekend of Xue Jinbo, one of the organisers of a months-long campaign over former farmland that residents... TVNZ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2822110/posts#comment Sun, 18 Dec 2011 23:24:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2819105/posts We see the beast without and We fear the greater beast within. But those who win, fear the least, and Sense the greater fear within the beast. -- Mike Vanderboegh, Dangerous Doggerel, 1997. As a self-made military historian without much of a portfolio, I still know that you cannot understand a battle without walking the ground of the battlefield. To see the ground from the perspective of the combatants tells you almost everything you need to know to understand why they did what they did. This past week I walked the battlefield of the Gunwalker Scandal. I talked to the... Sipsey Street Irregulars http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2819105/posts#comment Mon, 12 Dec 2011 02:39:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2818198/posts The UK’s “The Guardian” has an excellent article by Simon Tisdall entitled: “Putin prepares the Russian empire to strike back.” (HERE) Mr. Tisdall, right at the outset of his article, states what to Americans, on the right side of the political spectrum, is obvious. He says: “The reincarnation of the current PM as president poses a challenge to western powers for which they seem ill-prepared.” Mr. Tisdall is absolutely “spot-on.” The recreation of the Russian Empire is another reason the United States MUST relieve Mr. Obama of his seat in the Oval Office and replace him with a realist –... The Silent Majority http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2818198/posts#comment Fri, 9 Dec 2011 15:08:13 GMT