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Bush loves Jiang Donating Member (505 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-14-03 12:00 PM
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Who feels pity for Russians?
Their 3 most powerful politicians are a former KGB officer, a neo-Nazi, and a Stalinist buffoon who wants a return to the Brezhnev Doctrine.
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bahrbearian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-14-03 12:06 PM
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1. I fell pity for the Americans
their 3 most powerful men....2 where draft dodgers and the #1 man went AWOL in their countries time of need.
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OldEurope Donating Member (654 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-14-03 12:08 PM
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2. I do. I really do.
Because I´m German and Germans were the beginning of Nazi. I´m ashamed sometimes.
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-14-03 12:25 PM
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3. I am Russian
and i have family over there, but they bring a lot of this on themselves. Russians have a way of often supporting and bringing about the worst possible leaders imaginable. Russian political history is a rogues gallery of despots and thieves.
In all of Russian history, there is only one Russian leader I like: Gorbachev. Every other one has been cruel, despotic, corrupt, insane, half dead (Yeltsin) or moronic
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OldEurope Donating Member (654 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-14-03 12:34 PM
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4. agree.
named my son Michael and chose this name after Gorbatchew, his birthday was expected at the end of 1989, but happended to be 1990.
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Bush loves Jiang Donating Member (505 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-14-03 03:20 PM
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5. Hmmm...
What about Kerensky?
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-14-03 03:49 PM
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6. Kerensky was decent in terms of reforms
but he was not a good leader. He was ineffective and unable to lead. But if the provisional government had survived, perhaps Russia might have become a democracy.
That is one of history's great what ifs.
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