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Ivan’s Red Star Station
Canada Free Press ^ | 07/13/18 | William Kevin Stoos

Posted on 07/13/2018 8:37:55 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony

And soon ev’ry German Wore a fuzzy brown cap With cute little Mishas On each pocket flap

“The U.S.S.R. has announced plans to construct a natural gas pipeline from Siberia to West Germany. The pipeline is expected to be operational by 1984.” (November 16, 1981). [William Kevin Stoos, Manchester Union Leader, 1981]

Wolfgang drove up to The Sign of the Star And a smiling attendant Leaned into his car. (He wore a Red Star On his fuzzy brown cap And a Misha-Bear patch Over each pocket flap.)


TOPICS: Government; Humor; Poetry; Politics
KEYWORDS: germany; nato; russiangas; trump

1 posted on 07/13/2018 8:37:55 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
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To: Sean_Anthony
p01c

"Is not so bad dahling."

2 posted on 07/13/2018 8:44:41 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Snickering Hound

“Come and keep your comrade warm.”


3 posted on 07/13/2018 8:46:00 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Snickering Hound
She could be the granddaughter of the Soviet spy on Hogan's Heroes.
4 posted on 07/13/2018 8:46:45 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: Charles Martel

The guy who didn’t make it to the color years or much past the pilot episode.


5 posted on 07/13/2018 8:55:36 AM PDT by wally_bert (Just call me Angelo or babe.)
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To: Sean_Anthony

“The U.S.S.R. has announced plans to construct a natural gas pipeline from Siberia to West Germany. The pipeline is expected to be operational by 1984.” (November 16, 1981). [William Kevin Stoos, Manchester Union Leader, 1981]


Forcing the Europeans to reduce that plan from 2 pipelines (that would have each earned the USSR about $10 billion/year in hard currency) to 1, and delaying the operational date by 2 years, was a key part of the Reagan/Bill Casey plan to bankrupt the USSR. It was actually a part of one the main pillars of the plan to shut off earnings (the main part of which was to get the Saudis to massively increase oil production - which they did when we guaranteed their security); the other pillar was a massive increase in our military, which would force the USSR to have a similar massive increase (which it could not afford) into its own utterly non-productive military.

FWIW, Donald Trump campaigned on the same platform: massively increase the production of fossil fuels in the US, and massively bolster the military. Comrade/President Putin could not POSSIBLY have wanted Trump to win - this guy thinks that the dissolution of the USSR was the 20th Century’s “greatest geopolitical tragedy,” so why would he favor a candidate promising to implement some of the exact same policies as destroyed his beloved USSR?


6 posted on 07/13/2018 10:20:35 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: wally_bert
No, I was thinking of Nita Talbot:


7 posted on 07/13/2018 11:42:12 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: Charles Martel

I got my TV Russians confused.


8 posted on 07/13/2018 11:44:44 AM PDT by wally_bert (Just call me Angelo or babe.)
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