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Fritz Walter

(4,291 posts)
Tue Feb 15, 2022, 07:39 PM Feb 2022

TLP: "America -- once again -- stands for freedom"

In stark contrast to the previous administration.
And to be precise, we're talking "freedom." Not "free-dumb."



I had a classmate in grade school whose family was from the Ukraine. Back then, it was part of the soviet union, and I know that he and his kinfolk cheered loudly when that collapsed. So glad to hear that
"Ukranians will fight -- and fight hard -- against Russian agression..." Watch the clip for the rest of that statement.
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TLP: "America -- once again -- stands for freedom" (Original Post) Fritz Walter Feb 2022 OP
I visited the USSR in the late '80s with my grandmother's peace group Rhiannon12866 Feb 2022 #1

Rhiannon12866

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1. I visited the USSR in the late '80s with my grandmother's peace group
Tue Feb 15, 2022, 08:53 PM
Feb 2022

There was such hope back then under Gorbachev's progressive policies and the world cheered when it fell in 1991, thanks in a large part to Carter's policies. He was held in high regard among the Russians we met, Reagan and his hard line policies which made life tougher for them was not. The Russian people suffered terribly during WWII and they do not want war. Putin has recreated the worst policies of the USSR and he cannot be allowed to succeed...

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