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12. I visited the USSR in the late '80s with my grandmother and her peace group

Thu Feb 17, 2022, 10:31 AM

Feb 2022

And Russia has statues and plaques and museums all over as reminders of the terrible losses they suffered during WWII - so I find it hard to believe that they would intentionally want to start another war. But there was a lot of hope back then under Gorbachev and his policies of Glasnost and Perestroika, openness and transparency. But now that the WWII generation is mostly gone, could they have forgotten so soon? Putin is ex-KGB and it appears to me that he wants to return to the days of the Soviet Union...

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Russia claims it found mass graves in Ukraine - ABC News [View all] Rhiannon12866 Feb 2022 OP

Oh F***! applegrove Feb 2022 #1

More lies, they aren't even trying anymore... Rhiannon12866 Feb 2022 #10

I had hoped they really were going to withdraw. Doesn't look like applegrove Feb 2022 #11

I visited the USSR in the late '80s with my grandmother and her peace group Rhiannon12866 Feb 2022 #12

How convenient! Pantagruel Feb 2022 #2

S.O.P. dchill Feb 2022 #3

probably some of the millions the soviets (aka Russian) murdered in ww2 nt msongs Feb 2022 #4

Excellent point. Rhiannon12866 Feb 2022 #6

Russia is so full of shit C_U_L8R Feb 2022 #5

Nothing they say is to be believed. madaboutharry Feb 2022 #7

To say nothing of the millions Stalin killed in his death camps! PortTack Feb 2022 #8

I once visited what was then Soviet Georgia and I was baffled to see numerous statue of Stalin Rhiannon12866 Feb 2022 #9

Interesting fact! PortTack Feb 2022 #13