the 49 miilion attributed to Stalin isn't really right, did he give the orders to purpsoefelly kill 49 million people, no. He ordered the execution of 21 people. 20 million died in the war. The rest was bad policy, that is like blaming every death (that's not from old age) that happened between 2000-2007 as Bush's because idk, bad health reform or lack of proper safety or what not.
Like I said, that number leaves out WWII casualties. The number would be closer to 60-70 million if I included them.
You are pulling statictics out of the air. 20 million is the number they usually state. I have no clue where u got 40 million from, and even still, bad policy is the result not Stalin himself. If Stalin didn't have a bad policy which he got from Lenin. He wouldn't be attributed with the deaths.
No but you overthrew democratic governements and put usa puppets all over the Americas and other places.
*Looks at a map of South America and Africa and Asia and the Middle East*
I'm not seeing any regimes that support us except for Saudi Arabia, which doesn't really support us but they like our oil money. Oh! But I am seeing Iran, China, North Korea, Cuba, Nicaragua...
Of the regimes we've toppled, none of them were democratically-elected. These include Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and Iraq, the most prominent regimes we've toppled.
This is a list of Countries the us overthrew or tried to overthrow (* indicates successful ouster of a government):
We understand that Russia has fixed its mistakes, and now it's an awesome country. However, you're trying to say that, even before you fixed your mistakes, you were still a good country, even though the USSR, before 1991, when it was a Marxist-Leninist dictatorship.
Russia isn't very awesome, most people will say that life is much worse after the ussr then before it.
Really? I thought I read somewhere that the majority of Russians think their country is going in the right direction. It is becoming more and more industrialized.
Well, "religious" can actually mean anything you do regularly, especially something you can't do without. The word comes from a root that means "binding" or "obligated." So really you could call eating every day your "religion."
We never expanded into Warsaw Pact countries for as long as the Warsaw Pact lasted. In fact, we wouldn't have been allowed to. When we tried to help rebuild countries devastated by WWII, the USSR prevented those countries from even attending the conference, let alone accepting.
I think that's a ridiculous notion, since all we have been putting our budget toward is preventing Russia from trying to conquer Europe. We don't want Moscow.
So earlier you said Crimea was about ethnicity, and now it's national security. What will the reason for Crimea be tomorrow?
Crimes is ethnicity, other expansion is about national security. Also Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania. Were all warsaw pact countries that are now part of Nato. There are nukes in Moscow. You say that you wont take Moscow, but Bush Senior said there is no point in taking Baghdad, I am certain that worked out well for the Iraqis.
That's... still a very bad reason to conquer a sovereign country.
The Warsaw Pact is gone. Finished. Those countries who were part of the Warsaw Pact no longer exist. Their repressive, one-party regimes have been replaced with fair and free elections. If they chose to join NATO, have you considered that they may have had a reason?
Bush Senior had nothing to do with the 2003 invasion.
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Russia isn't very awesome, most people will say that life is much worse after the ussr then before it.
Really? I thought I read somewhere that the majority of Russians think their country is going in the right direction. It is becoming more and more industrialized.
Haha, oh gosh no. Things right now are a lot worse majority of industry (over 51% left the nation) our economy is far too dependent on oil and gas, oligarchs control ridiculous amount of wealth and power, the ruble is at its weakest. The government decided to impose sanctions on itself (literally) the government banned western products, ironically these sanctions hurt Russia more than the west, Western sanctions have done just about nothing. All industry that has remained is making very little profit due to Russia's crazy good labour laws.
Crimes is ethnicity, other expansion is about national security. Also Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania. Were all warsaw pact countries that are now part of Nato. There are nukes in Moscow. You say that you wont take Moscow, but Bush Senior said there is no point in taking Baghdad, I am certain that worked out well for the Iraqis.
That's... still a very bad reason to conquer a sovereign country.
The Warsaw Pact is gone. Finished. Those countries who were part of the Warsaw Pact no longer exist. Their repressive, one-party regimes have been replaced with fair and free elections. If they chose to join NATO, have you considered that they may have had a reason?
Bush Senior had nothing to do with the 2003 invasion.
In 1991 following Saddam's invasion of Kuwait. Bush Senior was asked if he was going to push into Iraq to dippose of Saddam to prevent him from invading more countries. He said no, and he said that a civil war and mass instability would accur if he did. Bush junior did anyways. Imagine being an Iraqi and how that would scare you if you knew that America decided to just invade you.
Crimes is ethnicity, other expansion is about national security. Also Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania. Were all warsaw pact countries that are now part of Nato. There are nukes in Moscow. You say that you wont take Moscow, but Bush Senior said there is no point in taking Baghdad, I am certain that worked out well for the Iraqis.
That's... still a very bad reason to conquer a sovereign country.
The Warsaw Pact is gone. Finished. Those countries who were part of the Warsaw Pact no longer exist. Their repressive, one-party regimes have been replaced with fair and free elections. If they chose to join NATO, have you considered that they may have had a reason?
Bush Senior had nothing to do with the 2003 invasion.
Firstly, I have no hard feelings against the USA, I am not some hard line communist or anything. I consider myself rather moderate (Imo President Reagan was the best us president), the question is do you hold anything against Russia? You say its a bad reason to invade, (side note I hold nothing against those countries either. My best friends are polish and I know a lot of ukraineans), but lets say someone is pointing a gun right at your face and they are standing right next to you, and then say... 'I wont shoot that's why I have a gun next to your head" most people would probably try to take the gun before he could pull the trigger. Russians don't want per say all former soviet republics to reunite, they just want 2 things. So the massive military right next to russias border (which is very suspicious) moves back along with those US Nukes stationed in Romania. We also want to held neutral or positive relations with the countries bordering Russia. They don't have to be good, they just have to be positive or neutral.
