Originally posted by Boroda
This rights are a nice, but unnessesary addition to the rights to live, to feed, to have accomodation, education, job and rest. All this rights were 100% guaranteed in USSR, and it's a fact.
Unnecessary rights???? Your joking right??? The right to free speech, freedom to worship how I want, freedom of the press, the right to keep and bare arms. Everything contained within the U.S. Bill of Rights is absolutly necessary for a free society. Your so called rights that were 100% garanteed to you in the USSR were only available as long as you toed the party line. Get out of line and get squashed. Some rights.
Originally posted by Boroda
Any individual that opposes the society is in danger. You can't live outside of society..
Thats the nice thing about the U.S. As long as your not hurting anyone else you can pretty much do as you please. I don't belong to a political party. I'm what we call here in America, an Independent. I go my own way when it comes to politics. I have the ability to choose on my own if I want to follow a political leader or not. I also have the ablility to walk up to a politician in my country and tell him to his or her face if I think he or she is an idiot and NOTHING will happen to me. If I don't like what they are doing I can vote for someone else. If enough people vote like I do that idiot is out of a job.
Originally posted by Boroda
It was the most successfull social and economical project in human history. From illiterate agricultural country that starved every few years in 10 years it became an industrial and military power, with millions of educated people appearing out of nowhere, from the grey mass of peasants. After the most devastating war in human history it recovered in less then tree years, and twelve years later it reached into Space, beating Western powers technologically and socially. Yes, it didn't provide some of that imaginary "rights" you mentioned, but it wasn't an Orwellian dictatorship as it's portrayed by propaganda now. It was simply a different way of life, that's all.
And yet the U.S. is still here as a super power and the USSR is where??? For being so successfull you guys sure didn't last that long. For an economic power house you guys sure aren't doing to well now a days are you? As far as beating the U.S. into space, it wouldn't have happened without the German scientist and technical documents you captured at the end of the war. It was the same for us also, but how many of those Germans that you guys captured get full citizenship "rights" in the USSR? I know all the German scientist that came over to the states got full citizenship here. Also how many of your former states are trying to join NATO now?? I know the Ukraine is. I was there in Odesa in 2001 for a joint NATO exercise. I also know that the Republic of Gerogia is using old U.S. Coast Guard ships that we sold them because the stuff they had from the USSR was crap. I know because I helped train the crews on those 2 patrol boats we sold them. They are based in Poti. I spent a week there working on those boats and the crews told me all sorts of stuff about how "great" the USSR was. (Insert Sarcasm).
I'm a pretty opened minded person, but I have had the oppertunity to travel all over the world and see different countries and cultures first hand. For all the mistakes the United States makes, there is no way I would want to live anywhere else. The "imaginary" rights you say I have are VERY REAL and I don't take them for granted. As I said before I will fight anyone who would try to take them away, because they are so important. I only wish you could come here and see first hand what it is I'm talking about.
