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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Screw the Russians. If the Czechs want to tear down every Soviet era monument, more power to them.

3 posted on 08/08/2018 4:51:46 PM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)

7 posted on 08/08/2018 5:14:06 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)

Agree...stand with the Czechs!

9 posted on 08/08/2018 5:20:29 PM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket)

As a resident of Poland, I understand why the Czechs want to remove this. But as a non-Pole I can also impartially see why the Russians are against this - while the Soviets DID commit atrocities post the war and even during the war to the Poles and Czechs, the Russians see that they lost 20 million people "fighting the great patriotic war" - so they see this in the same light as, say, if Germany tore down a statue to an American general or soldier -- to us that is insane as Americans did NOT commit atrocities, but to the Russians they see the "savior" bit and not the atrocities.

It's really grey.

14 posted on 08/08/2018 11:45:16 PM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)

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