There is nothing typical about Putin. He is way off the charts. It is wrong to compare his issues with communism. Of course communism was bad, that does not make him great just because communism was bad. The character who plays him in house of cards seems pretty accurate.
My husband’s family is Japanese American and some of them were sent to interment camps. As bad as they were, they didn’t think of them as concentration camps, which is what they had in nazi Germany. They were clearly there due to racism, as we didn’t send Germans and Italians to camps and they were our enemy too. They were detained in a barbed wire camp with armed guards. Yes, it was bad. Yes, it was wrong. But we didn’t have gas chambers. Clearly, no action should be based on racism, however, it is wrong to compare these two things as there is no comparison. My husband had a cousin who was born in manzanar in California, a camp there. She grew up and became an er dr in la. Years later, they were given reparations which didn’t make up for it, but they did receive it. It should never happen and it did but we should be careful when we throw around comparisons to the holocaust.
@LoboGrandeNight-Gaunt49 Billionaires were literally appointed and funded by the Russian govt decades ago..“Several decades ago”, there was NO “Russian” government … Russia was one of the Soviet Socialist Republics “several decades ago”.Notice you put “several” inside your quotes despite the fact, NightG49 didn’t use the word..Even so, consider 1991 to 2015.This is more than one decade ago,more than two decades ago..Night G was accurate in his statement, even as you misquoted it.
Russia is proof that there in no honor among thieves. All the Russian billionaires made there money by stealing their country’s natural resources, only to see their fortune taken by Putin when he turned against them (see Yukos oil).
And yes, many American right-wingers do love Putin.
The right loves to call Hitler a “progressive” because his party was the “National Socialists”, despite the fact that they were actually fascists, much more like our current republicans. Names don’t mean anything.
In Alan Sillitoe’s novel The Key To The Door there’s a scene where the protagonist, as an office boy in London late in World War II, discovers a map in the boss’ room with flag pins depicting the positions of the various armies. The protagonist is surprised to see that the boss had apparently been so neglecting the task that he still had German flags deep inside Soviet territory. Only later did he suddenly realise that the boss was unable to accept the fact that the enemy, Germany, was losing to the ally, the USSR.
I think of this scene these days whenever I see people (including Obama religionists like Trudeau) blindly parroting the Dronemonger’s claim that Russia was isolated and its economy in “tatters”. The facts that even their own media have been forced to acknowledge – that Russia is anything but isolated and the economy is blazing ahead – are apparently as much impossible to admit as the Soviet victories were to Sillitoe’s office manager in 1944.
“Decade” can mean “10” just like “dozen” means 12 so the FIRST set of 10 years ago would be 2014-2005, and the second would be 2004-1995. Thus anything 1995 or before would be “decades ago” and since ANYthing over 1 is plural 11 years ago (1.1 decadeS) would count. Even if you insist on the narrowest definition using calendar year numbering systems (with a calendar the Russians don’t use I might add) anything prior to 2000 would count as that is 1.5 decadeS ago.
BE THIS GUY about 9 years ago
And Russian billionaires are spending 10% of what they have on apartments in London and New York to keep Putin from taking what they have.
Alexander the Good Enough about 9 years ago
Well, at least the Russians had a few kinda good years, kinda. As for the rest of us, well…
braindead Premium Member about 9 years ago
Putin, the great leader Rudy Giuliani and the other Republicans/Fox “news” viewers admire and wish we had in this country.
WaitingMan about 9 years ago
Putin would fit in perfectly with the current crop of Republican presidential candidates. Good chance he would win, too.
Technojunkie about 9 years ago
If Putin were looking for a fellow kleptocrat he’d be Ready for Hillary.
montessoriteacher about 9 years ago
There is nothing typical about Putin. He is way off the charts. It is wrong to compare his issues with communism. Of course communism was bad, that does not make him great just because communism was bad. The character who plays him in house of cards seems pretty accurate.
montessoriteacher about 9 years ago
My husband’s family is Japanese American and some of them were sent to interment camps. As bad as they were, they didn’t think of them as concentration camps, which is what they had in nazi Germany. They were clearly there due to racism, as we didn’t send Germans and Italians to camps and they were our enemy too. They were detained in a barbed wire camp with armed guards. Yes, it was bad. Yes, it was wrong. But we didn’t have gas chambers. Clearly, no action should be based on racism, however, it is wrong to compare these two things as there is no comparison. My husband had a cousin who was born in manzanar in California, a camp there. She grew up and became an er dr in la. Years later, they were given reparations which didn’t make up for it, but they did receive it. It should never happen and it did but we should be careful when we throw around comparisons to the holocaust.
montessoriteacher about 9 years ago
TV in the future will tell us to stop reading day old news! I have a smart tv but it doesn’t go that far…
Space_cat about 9 years ago
In Russia we have saying.. “Fish rots from the head back”!
montessoriteacher about 9 years ago
I would never deny that the interment camps were wrong and should never happen again. I just think false comparisons are dangerous.
Bikebrains about 9 years ago
Putin and Dubya, the two biggest screw-ups of the Twenty-First Century.
Red Ruffensor about 9 years ago
Just like the good old days, under the czars, not the Communists.
tallguy98366 about 9 years ago
Anyone who would want Putin as their president is more then welcome to move to his turf and see how wonderful it is. Go on with you, scoot.
David Huie Green LosersBlameOthers&It'sYOURfault about 9 years ago
@LoboGrandeNight-Gaunt49 Billionaires were literally appointed and funded by the Russian govt decades ago..“Several decades ago”, there was NO “Russian” government … Russia was one of the Soviet Socialist Republics “several decades ago”.Notice you put “several” inside your quotes despite the fact, NightG49 didn’t use the word..Even so, consider 1991 to 2015.This is more than one decade ago,more than two decades ago..Night G was accurate in his statement, even as you misquoted it.
BE THIS GUY about 9 years ago
Russia is proof that there in no honor among thieves. All the Russian billionaires made there money by stealing their country’s natural resources, only to see their fortune taken by Putin when he turned against them (see Yukos oil).
And yes, many American right-wingers do love Putin.
kaffekup about 9 years ago
The right loves to call Hitler a “progressive” because his party was the “National Socialists”, despite the fact that they were actually fascists, much more like our current republicans. Names don’t mean anything.
BE THIS GUY about 9 years ago
I posted a reply to your final comment in yesterday’s thread.
King_Shark about 9 years ago
In Alan Sillitoe’s novel The Key To The Door there’s a scene where the protagonist, as an office boy in London late in World War II, discovers a map in the boss’ room with flag pins depicting the positions of the various armies. The protagonist is surprised to see that the boss had apparently been so neglecting the task that he still had German flags deep inside Soviet territory. Only later did he suddenly realise that the boss was unable to accept the fact that the enemy, Germany, was losing to the ally, the USSR.
I think of this scene these days whenever I see people (including Obama religionists like Trudeau) blindly parroting the Dronemonger’s claim that Russia was isolated and its economy in “tatters”. The facts that even their own media have been forced to acknowledge – that Russia is anything but isolated and the economy is blazing ahead – are apparently as much impossible to admit as the Soviet victories were to Sillitoe’s office manager in 1944.
KnifeSmile about 9 years ago
Or maybe it’s this odd thing called ironic humor?
water_moon about 9 years ago
“Decade” can mean “10” just like “dozen” means 12 so the FIRST set of 10 years ago would be 2014-2005, and the second would be 2004-1995. Thus anything 1995 or before would be “decades ago” and since ANYthing over 1 is plural 11 years ago (1.1 decadeS) would count. Even if you insist on the narrowest definition using calendar year numbering systems (with a calendar the Russians don’t use I might add) anything prior to 2000 would count as that is 1.5 decadeS ago.