Quote Originally Posted by KLAPA View Post
Yep - yet they are still there at the behest of the "host country" - and they do not arbitrarily - and with military force - IMPOSE a government on those countries such as the Russian's did. They do not take things from those counties - they guard the countries against the CONTINUED threat of the Russian's.

Stalin (and thus Russia) even went so far as to OUTLAW letters of the Ukrainian alphabet!

It is difficult for me to understand how Russian's cannot understand the "hard feelings" these people have.

It is also difficult for me to understand WHY Russian's - being the smart and articulate people that they are - continually seem to need to be "led" - by despots like Putin.

Here in the USA - and all over Europe - we don't have a $1000 penalty for protest marches such as has been recently implemented by the "rubber stamp" Duma for CZAR Putin and his KGB cronies.

Also here and in Europe - the "state" does not "own" the media like they do in Russia - or should I say "Gazpromia". Yes - you might say America or Europe is "owned" by corporations - but it is not just one single corporation like it is in Russia. When any corporation would challenge Putin and Gazprom - well - they just change the laws (think LukOil here) and the "state" simply steals the assets of the "lawbreaker".

Nobody trusts you - and for good reason! So why would they trust their "indigenous Russian speakers" that were installed by the Soviet invader?
I will "add" here - that I know allot about the "so-called" Yugoslavia - I was stationed in northern Greece (Macedonia) in that late 70's - in a place where they called it then the "buffer zone".

Yugoslavia was a "special case". This was only a "country" because of the "iron hand" of Tito. This place - the "Balkan" - it was the crossroads of East vs. West - Slav vs. Muslim - and even orthodox vs. catholic vs. Islam. This place has been the foment of war in Europe. The only thing that made that collection of Croatia Serbia, and the rest WAS the AUTHORITARIAN regime of Tito. As soon as he died - the inevitable troubles began.

Yet the Euro's did nothing about it - nor did the Russian's - all the while the body's of the innocents were piling up.

I was very much against the US forces involvement by Madeline "NotSoBright" and the "BillKlingon" administration in that delima - I knew it to be a European problem and thought that it should be a European "fix". But the Euro's are just like a "neutered dog" and something had to be done. The USA did it!

Crap on you Russian's for what you did (or didn't do) there! You came "riding in" at the last minute after all was over pretending to "save your Slavic brother".

Where were you Russian's or the Euro's in the BEGINNING of that conflict of a nation that was essentially under your care?

Where were you? Nowhere to be found - that is "where you were".

Typical Russian.

I always like that "old Soviet saying" - that "history is never set".

Yup - you Putin robots certainly fit the mold - and you are to be feared - because you are all intelligent, talented, and seem to be brainwashed like a herd of korova.

Don't any of you "modern" Russian's remember Viktor Tsoy? Perhaps you should listen to his songs again. I would point out "печаль".

I want to say here - that I am married to a Ukrainian woman for 12 years. I have "inherited" her children and have brought them here to America - I have treated them all well. I have taken the "Russian view" in politics on many occasions - but now I have grave doubts.

Why? Because of what I see happening in Russia now - the absorption of the media by the state run Gazprom. The people are "fed" a single lunch everyday - they have no informed choices - and if they demand t - they are fined much more than they can pay.

That is what I see - and being the old "cold warrior" that I am I am glad we have many missiles pointed towards Russia and have changed my mind again to believe that Russia is truly the enemy of freedom - because their people are Korova that subjugate themselves to an authoritarian regime that will be to the detriment on mankind.