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bemildred

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32. Yep.

Reply to DonCoquixote (Reply #28)

Mon Jan 25, 2016, 08:58 PM

Jan 2016

I spent some time trying to figure out what he was up to (Putin), but after a while I decided it was not that big a deal, as I said, it's not really new.

And yes, the USSR is no more and its not coming back, an analogy with the Ottomans or the British comes to mind, the nation is still there, the empire is gone.

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Putin denounces Soviet founder Lenin [View all] bemildred Jan 2016 OP

Interesting. Thanks for the post! Proserpina Jan 2016 #1

Very. You're welcome. nt bemildred Jan 2016 #2

He's right in this respect. nt thereismore Jan 2016 #3

Funny. Putin's an authoritarian right-winger by personality, Hortensis Jan 2016 #4

Ha! That's a mouthful! elias49 Jan 2016 #7

It's not really different. bemildred Jan 2016 #9

Probably. His religious nationalist targets Hortensis Jan 2016 #15

Yep. He knows his audience, he is one of them. bemildred Jan 2016 #17

Vladimir Putin is an interesting man - elias49 Jan 2016 #29

Granted. nt bemildred Jan 2016 #31

how interesting is getting beaten to death by a neo-nazi death squad approved by Putin's Kremlin uhnope Jan 2016 #33

given his mutual admiration society which includes Trump, ChairmanAgnostic Jan 2016 #10

Indeed. dawn frenzy adams Jan 2016 #25

Well, I do feel the Windsor family is far, far, far Hortensis Jan 2016 #27

Says who? Proserpina Jan 2016 #30

Unlike Putin, Lenin was "The ends justify the means"... Herman4747 Jan 2016 #5

Here we go. Brickbat Jan 2016 #6

the USSR took a lot more from HG Wells than from Engels MisterP Jan 2016 #8

Lenin in Zurich Paperback � May, 1976 by Alexander Solzhenitsyn bemildred Jan 2016 #11

How long before St. Petersburg is renamed yet again? FLPanhandle Jan 2016 #12

Undergrad. eggplant Jan 2016 #19

There's something I didn't expect to see. NaturalHigh Jan 2016 #13

Why did I picture Putin doing a Trump impression? Spitfire of ATJ Jan 2016 #14

I think the key word is the borders. I think Putin wants to abolish the borders. olddad56 Jan 2016 #16

Actually, Putin is a monarchist. Crowman1979 Jan 2016 #18

Yeah, he wants to be Britain, I think that's about right. bemildred Jan 2016 #20

Putin's grandfather was a chef who cooked for Lenin and Stalin. former9thward Jan 2016 #21

+1. bemildred Jan 2016 #22

Both of them believed to have been poisoned Hmmmmmmmmmmmm Monk06 Jan 2016 #35

I wasn't going to go that far. former9thward Jan 2016 #38

Russian TV Drama Documentary about WWI, WWII, from Russian perspective on YouTube vinny9698 Jan 2016 #23

cool thx nt uhnope Jan 2016 #34

Another grave dancing thread here on DU Kaleva Jan 2016 #24

He was just back from riding bear Kennah Jan 2016 #26

I thought this was the Onion DonCoquixote Jan 2016 #28

Yep. bemildred Jan 2016 #32

yes but tell that to Pussy Riot., Litvinenko, and the nation of Ukraine uhnope Jan 2016 #36

I'll bring it up next time I see them. nt bemildred Jan 2016 #37