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Old 03-12-2019, 08:49 PM   #151 (permalink)
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Know your history.
The Bolsheviks had to fight off the Western forces who sided with the White Army in an attempt to overrun them after the first World War. That did not go down well.
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They're not nice guys by any measure, but there's logic to their ways.

....You cannot have a nazi press agency, at least not one presenting itself as such. Subtle hints are the furthest one can go. I'm not going to spell it out any further....

Disclaimer: Red in my avatar does not stand for my political orientation just as Devil does not stand for my religious tendencies. It's just about a red car with a funny random state-issued license plate code.
History isn't what happened. It's a story about what happened. https://historyisaweapon.com/

Thanks for the link. I knew about the Holodomor in general, but hadn't heard of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_armies

It's hard to know what happened before I was born in rural Oregon, but my sense is that there was some cowboy military guy in Poland with armies massing on both his borders, with England prompting him to do something stupid. Which he did.

See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histor...tary_alliances

Not sure about the press agency that shall not be named. Are they in Argentina?
Likewise, 'freebeard' is a play on a song title.

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