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Soviet War Paintings

Sun, 1 Nov 2009 15:48:00 +0000

SOVIET WAR PAINTINGS. PART I >>Part II N. Prisekin. Hard times N. Prisekin. Hard times. 1941 Western borders N. Tolkunov. Immortality. Brest, 1941. N. Tolkunov. Immortality. Brest, 1941. D. Shmarin. Summer 1941. D. Shmarin. Summer 1941. Y. Kugach. Summer 1941 Y. Kugach. Summer 1941. B. Tarelkin. ...

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan found this 6 days ago on allworldwars.com

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Russia 'simulates' nuclear attack on Poland

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 08:01:00 +0000

The secret manoeuvres are thought to have involved about 13000 Russian and Belarusian troops.

Theo Spark found this 6 days ago on telegraph.co.uk

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Gorby: He deserved it

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:26:47 +0000

The former Soviet leader tells Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Obama "deserved" the Nobel Prize, as he did, and draws a sort of parallel between them: "I won it unexpectedly, and he won it unexpectedly. And i think I deserved it -- time has passed, and that's clear," ...

The Caucus found this 13 days ago on politico.com

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Transcripts of Defeat

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:30:02 +0000

London THE highly decorated general sat opposite his commander in chief and explained the problems his army faced fighting in the hills around Kabul: “There is no piece of land in Afghanistan that has not been occupied by one of our soldiers at some time or another,” he said. “Nevertheless much ...

Daily Kos found this 10 days ago on nytimes.com

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Hollywood Comrades

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:02:00 +0000

Why the Soviets were such lovable movie villains.

Hit & Run found this 8 days ago on reason.com

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The Glenn Beck Cartoon Show: 'We've raised a generation of potential killers'; Plus! 'We're watching what happened to Russia'

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:30:12 +0000

DOWNLOADS: (2) PLAYS: (43) Glenn Beck has become a cartoon. You can pretty much guarantee that every afternoon, you can tune in and find Beck saying something so stupidly outrageous, so detached from reality, so unhinged in its lunacy, that you just have to shake your head. It's not really a ...

Firedoglake found this 11 days ago on crooksandliars.com

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We Need a Muggeridge for Iran -- By: David Pryce-Jones

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:07:56 +0000

Malcolm Muggeridge in his day was one of the rare foreign correspondents who reported what the Soviet Union was really like under Stalin. And what satirical scorn he reserved for those who thought they were wandering in Utopia. Listen to this extract from a book of his about the rich idiots ...

Cold Fury found this 8 days ago on pryce-jones.nationalreview.com

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When Do People Resist Occupation?

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 23:15:57 +0000

A new paper by Keith Darden argues that culture, ideology, and identity are more important than previous research has realized: Why do some communities take up arms against an occupying power while others submit without significant resistance? This paper explores this question with an ...

Matthew Yglesias found this 4 days ago on themonkeycage.org

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Gorbachev: Bush once told me that ‘blockheads and dummies’ were supporting the ‘extreme’ Reagan.

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 22:19:00 +0000

During a recent interview with The Nation editors Katrina vanden Heuvel and her husband Stephan Cohen, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev credited President Reagan for helping end the Cold War, but he argued that instituting democratic reforms in his country was the true catalyst. ...

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan found this 5 days ago on thinkprogress.org

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Good for Medvedev...

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:27:00 +0000

Medvedev blasts Stalin defenders By Richard Galpin BBC News, Moscow Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has made an outspoken attack on those seeking to rehabilitate former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. Millions of Soviet citizens died under Stalin's rule and Mr Medvedev said it was not possible to ...

jhudock posted 8 days ago from commonsensewonder.blogspot.com

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Carol Platt Liebau: Why Won't Obama Celebrate Freedom's Victory?

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 15:30:00 +0000

On a November evening back in 1989, it was impossible to take one's eyes from the television screen. There it was, the seemingly impossible - the Berlin Wall falling as East Germans, intoxicated by the promise of f

INSTAPUTZ found this 5 days ago on townhall.com

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Russia simulates nuclear attack on Poland

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 22:00:00 +0000

A Polish leading news magazine, Wprost, has obtained documents that show that Russia and Belarus conducted a war game that simulated nuclear attacks on Poland. The war games took place back in September around the 70th anniversary of the invasion...

Wizbang found this 4 days ago on mypetjawa.mu.nu

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