gandhium

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by gandhium 9y ago
> 1984 is based on WW2 and immediate post-war Britain and Stalin's USSR.
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by gandhium 9y ago
Yes. I had the same situation, tried everything (except installing Windows anew) - nothing helped. And at this time I'm not concerned about patiently waiting for ~1 hour, I'm worried that someday that "update+fail" cycle
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by gandhium 9y ago
> Soviet Union did not accept the blame for occupation of Baltic states so I don't see how it should be Russia's obligation. USSR didn't accept 'Tsar's bonds' yet Russia payed them out. So, yeah, double stan
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by gandhium 9y ago
How NATO expansion is related to a Russia violating their agreement with Ukraine?
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by gandhium 9y ago
Accepting blame for Soviet occupation of Baltic states or Poland. Accepting repercussions for Holodomor.
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by gandhium 9y ago
> Instead we decided to humiliate the Russians By providing billions of dollars to them in humanitarian help, credits and jobs? Humiliation, for sure.
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by gandhium 9y ago
> assured Gorbachev on February 10, 1990: “We believe that NATO should not expand the sphere of its activity.” (See Document 9) After this meeting, Kohl could hardly contain his excitement at Gorbachev’s agreement in principle for German
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by gandhium 9y ago
They _tricked_ others to take debt obligations for themselves. Since they took _all_ the Soviet properties as well.
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by gandhium 9y ago
> how many countries participated in the Russian civil war on the side of the whites. All those countries were protecting assets sent to Russia and Czechs abused by Bolsheviks. If they were actually _participated_ in civil war, Bolshevik
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by gandhium 9y ago
Sadly your first TLDR offended bunch of folks still believing in socialism and you've got downvoted. Meanwhile - all (and I mean ALL) countries which adopted socialism - all of them plunged into poverty, corruption and in some cases ci
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by gandhium 9y ago
Russia since the creation (26 years ago) was involved in: Transnistria (war) Nagorny Karabakh (war) Chechnya (2x 'official' wars and still going) Georgia (war) Ukraine (war) Montenegro (coup d'etat) And as for economical bloc
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by gandhium 9y ago
Looks like there's a golden rule - blame US for everything.
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by gandhium 9y ago
Bureaucracy, lack of reforms, unreliable chips/components, paranoidal secrecy and tendency to lie in their economical reports - sounds pretty much Soviet Union to me.
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by gandhium 9y ago
> Specific examples please. All their articles related to Ukraine: Donbass, Crimea, MH-17. They're repeating same lies designed by Kremlin hosts.
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by gandhium 9y ago
> The US was more than hostile, we had soliders on the ground in Murmansk and Vladivostok. US sent soldiers to secure shipments sent to Tsarist Russia. And surprisingly bolsheviks declared themselves "free" of any Tsarist Russi
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by gandhium 9y ago
Relief program was a _relief program_. Free as in beer. Why do you think treasures were involved is beyond me.