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AFFIRM (60 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 03:33 PM Original message |
The Return of Communism? |
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originalpckelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 03:34 PM Response to Original message |
1. Why? How is Iran going to hurt us with nukes? |
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TheBaldyMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 03:40 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. according to Lewis Black, 500 iranians will throw the missle at you. |
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entanglement (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 07:06 PM Response to Reply #5 |
33. LOL |
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AFFIRM (60 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 04:14 PM Response to Reply #1 |
12. I dont know |
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originalpckelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 08:35 PM Response to Reply #12 |
36. Supposedly terrorists... |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 03:37 PM Response to Original message |
2. huh? the soviets had LOTS of nukes...even more than us, iirc. |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 05:23 PM Response to Reply #2 |
29. The "Missile Gap" was a bit bogus. Kennedy got his numbers from Soviet misinfo. |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 06:29 PM Response to Reply #29 |
32. they still had PLENTY of nukes, which could have done us PLENTY of harm... |
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Zynx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-07-07 09:43 AM Response to Reply #29 |
52. In the 1960's, yeah. 1970's and 80's, Soviets had a lot more megatonnage |
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izzie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 03:38 PM Response to Original message |
3. Took a little more than one man called Hitler to bring on WW2 |
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katsy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 03:39 PM Response to Original message |
4. Iran has nukes? |
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Mz Pip (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 03:40 PM Response to Original message |
6. Why? |
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AFFIRM (60 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 04:18 PM Response to Reply #6 |
13. I absolutely agree |
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pretzel4gore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 04:20 PM Response to Reply #6 |
14. Khruschev fought at Stalingrad |
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Thothmes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-06-07 09:10 AM Response to Reply #14 |
39. Khrushchev |
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pretzel4gore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-06-07 06:38 PM Response to Reply #39 |
48. he was one of the top Russians there... |
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Thothmes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-07-07 08:46 AM Response to Reply #48 |
51. Top Russian |
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TheBaldyMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-06-07 04:48 PM Response to Reply #14 |
47. did somebody mention the old negro space program? |
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ngant17 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 04:22 PM Response to Reply #6 |
15. Khrushchev was deposed by the hardliners |
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SutaUvaca (472 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 03:40 PM Response to Original message |
7. I heard about Iran's nukes... |
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cool user name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 03:40 PM Response to Original message |
8. Um, the Soviet Union didn't practice communism ... |
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manic expression (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 04:59 PM Response to Reply #8 |
25. I'm not sure why this is so hard for people to understand |
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cool user name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 05:06 PM Response to Reply #25 |
27. Indeed, however the USSR didn't practice socialism either. n/t |
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manic expression (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 05:14 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. Not after 1928 |
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cool user name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 08:25 PM Response to Reply #28 |
34. The drift rightward occurred prior to that with Lenin's NEP ... |
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manic expression (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 10:32 PM Response to Reply #34 |
37. The NEP was necessary |
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cool user name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-06-07 07:57 AM Response to Reply #37 |
38. Oh, I think a healthy debate amongst the left is wise. |
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manic expression (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-06-07 11:08 AM Response to Reply #38 |
41. Thanks |
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cool user name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-06-07 01:33 PM Response to Reply #41 |
45. Thank you and I welcome further discussion with you. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-06-07 01:26 PM Response to Reply #28 |
43. The USSR was doomed from the start. |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 08:33 PM Response to Reply #25 |
35. Try debating with right wingers |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-06-07 01:23 PM Response to Reply #25 |
42. The USSR was state capitalist, not socialist |
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cool user name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-06-07 01:35 PM Response to Reply #42 |
46. Agreed. |
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pretzel4gore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-06-07 07:05 PM Response to Reply #42 |
49. please don't disrespect the Workers State |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-06-07 10:10 PM Response to Reply #49 |
50. If you think the USSR was ever a "worker's state" you are deluded. |
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pretzel4gore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-07-07 06:32 PM Response to Reply #50 |
54. no, but that was the idea.... |
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Speck Tater (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 03:51 PM Response to Original message |
9. With WalMart financing Chinese Communism, we don't need to wait. |
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otherlander (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 04:23 PM Response to Reply #9 |
16. Huh. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-06-07 01:30 PM Response to Reply #9 |
44. China is "Communist" in name only. |
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Strelnikov_ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 03:51 PM Response to Original message |
10. "Now that we have brought capitalism to the Russians . . ." |
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AFFIRM (60 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 04:28 PM Response to Reply #10 |
18. Yes we brought it to them |
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Strelnikov_ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 05:04 PM Response to Reply #18 |
26. Like I said, current events |
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manic expression (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 05:38 PM Response to Reply #26 |
31. Understandable |
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not_a_robot (115 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 03:55 PM Response to Original message |
11. This mentality |
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Orsino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 04:27 PM Response to Original message |
17. Assuming that your post was meant seriously... |
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AFFIRM (60 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 04:32 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. Post Misunderstood |
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Orsino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 04:35 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. You do not believe, then... |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 04:32 PM Response to Original message |
20. And just how many countries with nukes should we take out? |
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AFFIRM (60 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 04:33 PM Response to Original message |
21. Before we misuderstand this post further ..... |
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Igel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 04:35 PM Response to Original message |
23. A fair number of Russians are still convinced |
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manic expression (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 04:44 PM Response to Original message |
24. Very little chance in Russia |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 05:28 PM Response to Original message |
30. They ought to be contained until western capitalism can work its ol' black magic |
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Toots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-06-07 09:43 AM Response to Original message |
40. by all means if Iran has nukes for weaponry, we must take them out. |
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Virginia Dare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-07-07 10:05 AM Response to Original message |
53. How can something that never existed "return"? |
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