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Not sure how it was in the DDR, but in Moscow it was only one candidate people had to vote for. The info about the candidate was publicly available, but there was no choice. Then people had performed...

Some time back, one smart person mentioned to me that the oil crisis in the Middle East might benefit the US oil producers since the government would authorize full scale excavation of the oil...

You see, the USSR at Andropov's time had much better strategy without the high precision stuff. Conquer the continent and don't let the US to help it. Then, eventually the US would not be able to...

I guess, you can't teach an old dog new tricks. You're saying, I'm mentally stuck in the 80s? That's might be true. However, I could turn that back at you, saying you're stuck in the 90s. What war of...

I agree, that threat is real. Nobody had cancelled the tactic nuclear weapons yet and in some cases (e.g. to destroy an aircraft carrier) that is one of the valid options. And it's obvious that some...

That is a blanket statement which is applicable in some cases and is not being applicable in the others. You can say that about almost anything and twist it the way you want.

Example:

Ivan has...

You're not wrong by establishing the relationship between those two things. However, I'd say the former is not necessarily the cause for the latter. A new successful weapon was bound to be replicated...

Nice. :)

"The main reason to join the nuclear club is to protect oneself from the intrusion of a superpower."

Not really. Say, Iran produced 20 nuclear warheads. How could Iran protect itself...

Excellent! Finally someone had actually opened what the communists' plan is. So, I agree, let's read that passage carefully. What do we see?

1. A prediction: "Но ведь само собой разумеется, что с...

I think what Lenin and Stalin used to do is probably not the worst of all possible scenarios. We know there were lots of people who resisted the collectivization of the property and the communists...

Would you be able to provide some logical and/or factual support to what you just said? Obviously, you know how the propaganda works...

Ok, so let me once more repeat what I said and what has caused so much laughter from your side: "During the Cold War era, Western Europe was crying to save it from the USSR, hence the NATO, the...

Alright, so first, please cite me saying that "the people of Western Europe were crying to save it from the USSR". I said "Western Europe was crying to save it from the USSR" and when we mention a...

That's very informative. :)

Exactly! That's the whole point. The USA has become a superpower as a result of the WWII, mainly because it suffered the least - the entire infrastructure was intact and all the isolationists in the...

The USSR had done it more effectively. One wave of a magic wand, and the entire Eastern Europe has now new communist governments. Any uprising in Checholosvakiya or Hungary, would have to welcome the...

Are you serious? What's the difference between the presence of the US in Afghanistan and the presence of the USSR in Afghanistan?

Not quite. Today's export of raw materials is a business which is among the few surviving the crush of the USSR. The USSR had exported raw materials, especially oil to sustain the state at least...

I'm comparing the soviet-made calculators to the US-made calculators and the soviet-made cars with Italy-made cars. They are exactly the same.


Most of the major Western power riches which were...

I think that is because the main business in Russia is still exporting raw materials and not production. Production requires innovation to stay competitive.

I'm not sure the USSR was lagging behind the West. It was lagging behind in certain things and was a way ahead in the others. The scientists were compensated worse than their counterparts in the...

LOL

"Карандышев (вставая). О, не раскайтесь! (Кладет руку за борт сюртука.) Вы должны быть моей.
Лариса. Чьей ни быть, но не вашей.
Карандышев (запальчиво). Не моей?
Лариса. Никогда! ...

That option is totally fine by me. And I think communes like that existed throughout the centuries. Think monasteries, etc. What usually happens with those communities is that there's division of the...

Even today the 'butt-comfort' is not the only comfort that is being consumed. In the early 21st century we have much less people in the production business and more people in the service business....

Both types of comfort are subjective.


No it won't. As much as killing 20 kulaks does not bring about the social justice for you.


It's good to some people and bad to others.


I was...