Author Topic: Dean Reed (Read 922 times)

AWMac · « **Reply #15 on:** January 22, 2008, 02:42:12 PM »

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Originally posted by JB88
it beats the heck out of wait in line for toilet paper and if you dissent you get sent to gulag or house arrest.

That's "Putin" it more clearly. I think he's "Stalin" for time here. Most would rather take a long walk on a short pier "Andropov." Does anyone want to claim the stains on the "Lenin" here?

Airscrew · « **Reply #16 on:** January 22, 2008, 02:56:05 PM »

Until You posted it here I never heard of Dean Reed, and from what I can tell I didnt miss anything by not knowing... he couldnt have been that big of a deal... never saw a VH1 Behind the Music show about him.

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The problem is that you never lived under what you call "communism" and still make conclusions because "you saw it on TV".

Yea, all those lines for food and toilet paper were all made up, plus all those clips of people getting shot... all special effects to keeps us out of the workers paradise...

AWMac · « **Reply #17 on:** January 22, 2008, 03:43:02 PM »

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Originally posted by Airscrew
Until You posted it here I never heard of Dean Reed, and from what I can tell I didnt miss anything by not knowing... he couldnt have been that big of a deal... never saw a VH1 Behind the Music show about him.

Yea, all those lines for food and toilet paper were all made up, plus all those clips of people getting shot... all special effects to keeps us out of the workers paradise...

Who the Hell is Dean Reed?

BTW I heard that the long lines have been merged...Bread and Toilet Paper lines are now known as....

Waiting in line for the "Chit Sandwich".

SmokinSS · « **Reply #18 on:** January 22, 2008, 04:45:27 PM »

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Originally posted by AWMac
That's "Putin" it more clearly. I think he's "Stalin" for time here. Most would rather take a long walk on a short pier "Andropov." Does anyone want to claim the stains on the "Lenin" here?

Instant classic.

Vulcan · « **Reply #19 on:** January 22, 2008, 05:16:33 PM »

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Originally posted by Boroda
Go starve and feel comfortable just because you can shout anything you want at any corner so no one will listen.

Silly russians, don't you know that these things are not mutually exclusive?

boroda you been listening to the party tapes again?

Boroda · « **Reply #20 on:** January 22, 2008, 05:47:44 PM »

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Originally posted by JB88
and when we has breadlines in the depression...americans could still speak their minds.

Did it help?

"Breadlines" is a thing forgotten since 1947 here. Bloody Bolsheviks got rid of mass starvation.

breadline

Firefox knows "breadline" but no "firefox"

Lazs, I said I am from Leningrad. Did you ever meet people who had an experience of starving to death? Did they mention freedom of speech?

JB88 · « **Reply #21 on:** January 22, 2008, 05:53:10 PM »

yes. it helped.

and why not have both?

AWMac · « **Reply #22 on:** January 22, 2008, 05:57:10 PM »

Poor Boroda...

Not feeling like a "Super Power" anymore?

Try....

Mac

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #23 on:** January 22, 2008, 06:03:12 PM »

Specifically, the USA, but not the USSR, became the most violent society

Maybe.
Just another reason why the USSR would never have beaten us ::Shrug::

Boroda · « **Reply #24 on:** January 22, 2008, 06:07:23 PM »

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Originally posted by AWMac
That's "Putin" it more clearly. I think he's "Stalin" for time here. Most would rather take a long walk on a short pier "Andropov." Does anyone want to claim the stains on the "Lenin" here?

Putin wanted to be a modern JVS and failed. I said it back in 2000, you can search for my posts.

Russia now is the country with as much personal freedom as you can want. Yes, we traded free medical care, as good as at Cuba, for idiots barking at every corner ("freedom of speech").

JB88 · « **Reply #25 on:** January 22, 2008, 06:09:39 PM »

soooo, do you just come to american boards to exercise your freedom of speech or do you have your own places to bark on every corner?

boxboy28 · « **Reply #26 on:** January 22, 2008, 06:10:06 PM »

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Originally posted by AWMac
Poor Boroda...

Not feeling like a "Super Power" anymore?

Try....

Mac

OH the fun i could have.................

AWMac · « **Reply #27 on:** January 22, 2008, 06:13:17 PM »

What??? Best medical care in Cuba?

Ohhh my sides... Roger Moore has influenced even the Russians...

The Cubans are just risking their frikken lifes to swim to Florida to renew their prescriptions.

That is soooo Fidel Funny!!!!

Mac

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #28 on:** January 22, 2008, 06:14:35 PM »

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Originally posted by Boroda
Did it help?

"Breadlines" is a thing forgotten since 1947 here. Bloody Bolsheviks got rid of mass starvation.

Odd. My mother visited Russia about 10 years ago.
Thats not what she said she saw. Or I should say didnt see.

One other notation she noticed though.
Most of the Russians she ever saw smile were the younger ones
Almost all the the older ones looked miserable

On a more personal note I know a guy who defected from the former U.S.S.R
One of the hardest working men I ever met

His stories of contentment under communist rule was ENTIRELY different then yours.
I remember him telling me afte the fall of communism his mother comming over to visit. They went food shopping here together.
upon seeing all of the goods readily available to whomever wanted to buy thenm and without the lines down the block she started to cry ,sobbing"Its not fair!"

Course in a communist society everyone is supposed to be equal.
But as is usually the case. Some are more equal then others.

I imagine from the way you say it. you were form the "More equal" portion of the community.

Now you really are more equal literally. and your bitter because of it

john9001 · « **Reply #29 on:** January 22, 2008, 06:15:45 PM »

Boroda, this is your chance, organize the other bolsheviks and have a second bolshevik revolution, break out the red flags, throw out the capitalistic lackey government.

everyone join me in singing the international.