South Osetia under attack

[Elfie]

62 million, then 27 million killed in a War, then why is still somebody living here?!

Birth rates were higher than the death rates? Just saying..... 

[AKIron]

Boroda you do realize you're committing a criminal slander and threat to another posters life there? It's obvious that you're a fanatic with zero respect to your fellow posters and from what I've gathered, humanity and western values in general.

The sad part is that Russia was slowly but surely becoming accepted as an equal partner with the western community. Your every action, including your posts alienate you again. In United Kingdom they're already talking about revoking visas from Russians - you're becoming a nation worth of persona non gratas. Fast.

It's like you're working hard to fullfill the stereotypes and myths surrounding your people..

I don't hold it against him. Boroda is torn between what he knows is right and what he sees his beloved country doing. Enough to make anyone a little crazy.

[Dowding]

Boroda is increasingly looking like a personification of the Russian state on the international stage. It's interesting. Sometimes, it's quite sad in actual fact and I only feel only pity towards him. He must have lead a hard life to be where he is today. I met Russians in 1990 when I was 11 years old on a visit to Moscow and Leningrad, and wonder how they would see the world now. It would be interesting to compare with Boroda and his bluster.

Of course, other times I just think he is a cynical tosspiece.

[FrodeMk3]

Boroda is increasingly looking like a personification of the Russian state on the international stage. It's interesting. It's quite sad in actual fact. I only feel only pity towards him. He must have lead a hard life to be where he is today.

Other times I think he is a cynical tosspiece.

It's been said that the people that think and believe this way in modern Russia, were in Pre-Soviet collapse days, all party members, with ties to either the politburo or one of the other Soviet government agencies. They grew up in dachas' in the warmer regions, never had to worry about their ration cards, always had plenty of rubles, etc.

A hard life in the former USSR could be living on a collective farm, trying to grow enough food of your own to eat in your alotted plot, and never having enough to go around. Tales' of hardship are out there...but you never see anyone telling it, who will turn around and trumpet praise of the communist party, either. That was for the commisars'.

[moot]

Boroda you do realize you're committing a criminal slander and threat to another posters life there? It's obvious that you're a fanatic with zero respect to your fellow posters and from what I've gathered, humanity and western values in general.

Absolutely..

[Elfie]

It's been said that the people that think and believe this way in modern Russia, were in Pre-Soviet collapse days, all party members, with ties to either the politburo or one of the other Soviet government agencies. They grew up in dachas' in the warmer regions, never had to worry about their ration cards, always had plenty of rubles, etc.

A hard life in the former USSR could be living on a collective farm, trying to grow enough food of your own to eat in your alotted plot, and never having enough to go around. Tales' of hardship are out there...but you never see anyone telling it, who will turn around and trumpet praise of the communist party, either. That was for the commisars'.
   

Iirc Boroda's father was an officer in the Red army and Boroda himself was an officer in an AA battery.

[Elfie]

Holy Crap!

staggers the mind...  and 55 million of them citizens. Anybody tell the ossets yet?

That is over a period of decades, but still.....62 Million is just staggering.

[Holden McGroin]

That is over a period of decades, but still.....62 Million is just staggering.

No... No... Boroda said it was 20 times less than that.

It was only 2 million.  Four times the American Civil War casualties for both sides.

Stalin was up there with Mother Teresa.

[Elfie]

Stalin was up there with Mother Teresa.

Of course he was....and yet....Stalin was Georgian and throughout this thread Comrade Boroda has repeatedly referred to the Georgians as vermin and rabid dogs......


Makes me wonder if Stalin was a vermin or a rabid dog or perhaps both?   

[Holden McGroin]

Makes me wonder if Stalin was a vermin or a rabid dog or perhaps both?   

Well he did kill 62 mill...ehh  3 million Soviet citizens.

>>slipped a digit on the old abacus

[Hangtime]

before or after his rabies shot?

[Elfie]

before or after his rabies shot?

They had rabies vaccines?    



 

[33Vortex]

Birth rates were higher than the death rates? Just saying..... 

 

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=death+of+a+nation#

This is probably the greatest problem Russia is facing in the near future. If that was not enough, what they are doing now is only further alienating them from the western nations, nations that could help Russia through this crisis. Russian nationalism is very strong, Putin is playing this very smart but his time to act is running out. What worries me is, what is he going to do? Will he start another great war to reconquer the lost territories of the former CCCP and try to reestablish Russia as a superpower? It smells a lot of the 1930s to me.

[Boroda]

Boroda you do realize you're committing a criminal slander and threat to another posters life there? It's obvious that you're a fanatic with zero respect to your fellow posters and from what I've gathered, humanity and western values in general.

Western values? You mean money and right to murder for it?

After I have heard in this thread that "Stalin sent his hordes to Germany to rape" - I can expect anything from creatures who belong to your western so-called "culture".

The sad part is that Russia was slowly but surely becoming accepted as an equal partner with the western community. Your every action, including your posts alienate you again. In United Kingdom they're already talking about revoking visas from Russians - you're becoming a nation worth of persona non gratas. Fast.

It's like you're working hard to fullfill the stereotypes and myths surrounding your people..

Equal partner!? Are you joking!?

UK visas?! Who cares?! I want all British crown slaves out of here just for what I saw on BBC last week.

You "free western world" always hated us, always invaded us, and even you Finns helped us from being genocided. Just as we got you out of Swedish yoke in 1809.

I don't need any bloody west to dictate me what i should do or what i shouldn't. We are a free country. Go teach Georgians, Estonians and other ass-lickers who's elite gets some souvenirs from Washington for letting "free world" milk their population.

And one very important thing: by screaming about all that imaginary "russian crimes and atrocities" you give us a carte-blanche to finally come and do it in real life, not on history channel. You know, we already have no reputation, why not to try following it?

Like cutting ears from POWs and captured civilians, I hope you understand what I mean.

[Boroda]

I don't hold it against him. Boroda is torn between what he knows is right and what he sees his beloved country doing. Enough to make anyone a little crazy.

 My country is doing what it has to do saving a tiny nation from mass murderers. Just as we usually did.