Comments: Days After Bush Leaves Town All Smiles, Putin Fingers GOP Front Group For Spying

And no one will ever know but those of us on the Internet. How sad.

Posted by Judith at May 12, 2005 03:48 PM

Russia's President Vladimir Putin has described the collapse of the Soviet Union as "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe" of the 20th century.

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Ah, Vlad remembers the good ol' days when Uncle Joe Stalin wiped out 30 million Russians in 30 years. Ah, good times. Good times...

Posted by muckdog at May 12, 2005 04:18 PM

Shorter muckdog: "Hey! Look over there!"

Posted by Moo at May 12, 2005 04:28 PM

I guess it's too much to hope for that this will be picked up by "journalists"?

If you followed the Yalta blunder, visit Old Ghosts and Mangled Memories

Posted by Bonnie Yarbrough at May 12, 2005 05:03 PM

Ah, Vlad remembers the good ol' days when Uncle Joe Stalin wiped out 30 million Russians ...

Right muck - Vlad and Edwin Vieria are both into sentimental nostalgia ... From the WaPo on Justice Sunday ...

" Ominously, Vieira continued by saying his "bottom line" for dealing with the Supreme Court comes from Joseph Stalin. "He had a slogan, and it worked very well for him, whenever he ran into difficulty: 'no man, no problem,' " Vieira said.

The full Stalin quote, for those who don't recognize it, is "Death solves all problems: no man, no problem."

Posted by Jim Faith at May 12, 2005 07:07 PM

Ah, Vlad remembers the good ol' days when Uncle Joe Stalin wiped out 30 million Russians in 30 years. Ah, good times. Good times...

Ahh! I remember the good old days when America, using its foreign policy, killed 35 million non-combatant civilians between 1946 and 2004. We also have more people in prison than the Russians did in the gulags. We win! We win!

Posted by phidipides at May 13, 2005 07:21 AM

Is there a connection to your previous post: 'Bush Aims To Bring Back The Cold War - At The Expense Of The War On Terror'?

Perhaps, instead of carrying water for GOP-donating, Eastern European WWII refugees (Steve Gilliard's explanation, referred in your piece), he is, along with the IRI, carrying out a different Neo-Con plan: encouraging the former SSRs to sign contracts for oil and gas development with US companies, and permit US military to 'protect' the natural resources, a la the 'Caspian Guard.'

Posted by Lacedo at May 13, 2005 11:35 AM