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Charles Clemens's avatar

The Bolsheviks were encouraged by fake news regarding the number of Russians shot by firing squad under the Czar. Many more were executed by the Bolsheviks. Indeed, modern Russia has been shaped by centuries. It is wise to acknowledge that the USA no longer has a functioning government and managed to survive for four years with a mindless scarecrow propped up and pretending to have a brain. #AutoPen4Prez2028

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Lilly's avatar

MANY MANY CHEISTIANS. HEADS ON PIKES.

The only GENOCIDE occurring today is that of Christians. PERIOD.

TIRED OF PPL MISAPPROPRIATING WORDS BC THEY ARE DUMBED DOWN.

I'M COLLECTING THEK BACK.. 🇺🇸✊🇺🇲

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Matt Pemberton's avatar

You are always a good read, despite the heaviness of the topic. Thank you for your great writing.

California is looking more and more like an irrational state, on its way towards soviet-style 'Zeks' being sidelined in society.

They think Trump is a fascist for implementing his agenda, but Newsom isn't for locking people in their homes, preventing religious communities from convening, forcing unproven science on us via masks, distancing, and jabs, and literally cannot build anymore. None of which was part of a preapproved, voted-upon agenda.

When we do vote for large scale change as part of an agneda, like a high-speed rail, the 4th largest economy in the world can't build. And there is zero accountability in a one party state for these inept morons.

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William Schwartz's avatar

I'm frankly puzzled by your assertion that criticism of the USSR is verboten in the United States. Anne Applebaum is a mainstream historian. Her and Timothy Snyder are by far the best-known Soviet historians in this country, and the ones most likely to be cited in mainstream publications, despite significant problems with their scholarship. Even if we limit the discussion to popular culture, I'm drawing a blank on anything that could reasonably be described as Soviet apologia. Enemy At The Gates bends over backwards to make it clear that the Soviet Union is bad despite the movie being framed around their fighting Nazis.

Anti Soviet Union rhetoric is so thoroughly presumed to be obviously correct in this country our leadership simply ignores the fact that the current Ukrainian state takes a hagiographic stance toward Nazi collaborators. I'm not even touching on the issue of whether any of the claims you make in this article are fair or reasonable. Your acting like you're describing deep dark truths the establishment doesn't want us to know when these are just mainstream positions is simply weird. And that's a very charitable word to use given that your explicit theory for why our official history isn't sufficiently anti-Soviet is because of the Jews.

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