Russians at War
Foreign Affairs,
by
Andrei Kolesnikov
Original Article
Posted By: Jagermeister,
4/18/2022 3:47:18 PM
In early April, the coffin containing the body of 75-year-old Vladimir Zhirinovsky—the ultranationalist and populist who was a crucial pillar of the Russian state for two decades—was taken to the Hall of Columns in central Moscow for people to pay their respects. Sixty-nine years ago, it was there that Stalin had lain in state, in the process killing one last wave of Russians, who were crushed to death in the huge crowds that had gathered to bid farewell to the Soviet dictator.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Ashley Brenton 4/18/2022 4:11:50 PM (No. 1131933)
Thanks for bring this article to my attention.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 4/18/2022 4:23:26 PM (No. 1131937)
FTA - "But Russians are also considered by their leaders as an unthinking mass that must blindly follow their leader. Otherwise, they face administrative or criminal charges and social ostracism."
It's what the russkie leaders do and have always done with very little regard for human life. And many russians own nothing and are expected to the happy. We have a good bit of this happening now right here in America now, don't we.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Mofongo 4/18/2022 4:24:14 PM (No. 1131940)
Truly sorry to say, but, Americans At War. We’re the ones who won’t take yes for an answer. What has happened to us?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
formerNYer 4/18/2022 5:03:31 PM (No. 1131958)
FTA: To Russians, the term “fascism” has long served as a convenient label for almost anything bad...... At times, an even harsher term, “Nazis,” was used.
Sounds like the left in this country too.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Quigley 4/18/2022 7:37:31 PM (No. 1132023)
The whole story sounds like what the dims and whoever is infiltrating the dim party are seeking to impose here. We, too, have gotten a war we don’t want. And you’re a putin supporter if you don’t want it, say the dims.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Kate318 4/18/2022 7:58:29 PM (No. 1132029)
Volodymyr, is that you?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 4/18/2022 8:17:17 PM (No. 1132041)
He says a whole lot of truth.
The country of Russia and the Russian people have serious problem.
Putin is their "master" but they are slowly recognizing they, because of Putin and his crazy ambitions, are now truly "the bad guys", and that killing fellow Slavs and former countrymen in Ukraine is wrong, and a bad thing.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
MDConservative 4/18/2022 10:00:56 PM (No. 1132078)
Those of us old enough to remember the domestic developments of the Vietnam era should see a clear parallel. In 1964 LBJ won a historic landslide, by 1968 he was spent, distrusted, if not hated, for the Vietnam debacle. He dragged the government into a credibility gap from which, in my view, it has never recovered. And I recall a very strong undercurrent of "patriotism" that persisted despite this long-running travesty. In Putin's case, a defeat in Ukraine will be his end politically, and perhaps he will meet a sad fate. Russians are sore losers.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bighambone 4/18/2022 11:10:46 PM (No. 1132101)
Wars with the Russians are brutal, the Nazis found that out. Now it looks like the Ukrainians are finding that out. If the Russians decided to pull out of Ukraine tomorrow, the Eastern half of Ukraine will be destroyed when it comes to the infrastructure and much of the population. So what did either side prove, just that more Russian brutality exists in that area of the old defunct USSR.
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