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ericson00

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17. Great Purge, Holodomor, gulags, ...

Reply to ronnie624 (Reply #16)

Mon Nov 28, 2016, 09:04 PM

Nov 2016

the USSR's many colonies across Europe, it's brutal crushing of nationalist movements of Soviet Republics during and after the Bolshevik Revolution, ...

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Class is class - Jimmy Carter remembers Fidel Castro fondly [View all] malaise Nov 2016 OP

Castro's legacy and the envy of many nations: social care in Cuba malaise Nov 2016 #1

I agree heaven05 Nov 2016 #2

Bump malaise Nov 2016 #3

Dictators can accomplish a lot oberliner Nov 2016 #4

We do that here too but because no one goes to prison, that makes it okay. tenderfoot Nov 2016 #5

People marched up and down 5th Avenue protesting Donald Trump oberliner Nov 2016 #8

Bingo. How is this any different than the idolization of Trump or Putin? LittleBlue Nov 2016 #15

Some kinds never liked Jimmy Carter in the first place. They can't lose what they didn't have. n/t Judi Lynn Nov 2016 #18

I have enormous respect for Carter. cwydro Nov 2016 #23

I'm ashamed of Jimmy Carter being registered to the party I'm registered to. ericson00 Nov 2016 #6

The most undemocratic and tyrannical regimes in our hemisphere were put in power malaise Nov 2016 #9

for the most part, they were better than the ones put in place by anti-US interests ericson00 Nov 2016 #12

It was not for your government to choose for others malaise Nov 2016 #13

the world is always going to have wannabe superpowers. Better America than other past aspirants ericson00 Nov 2016 #14

What about the USSR's record? ronnie624 Nov 2016 #16

Great Purge, Holodomor, gulags, ... ericson00 Nov 2016 #17

Carter never was a second rate red-baiter. rug Nov 2016 #7

That's why special interests still hate him malaise Nov 2016 #10

Castro's fifty year rule proved his commitment to pluralism and democracy. AngryAmish Nov 2016 #11

Did you ever go berserk over US puppet dictator Stroessner in Paraguay's 35 years ruling? Judi Lynn Nov 2016 #19

Not to mention burrowowl Nov 2016 #21

? AngryAmish Nov 2016 #22

How many people are posting anti-Trump comments on this website? brooklynite Nov 2016 #20