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Sheeeit I’ve been radigrillized
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The Soviet Union had the second-longest economic boom ever observed, becoming the second-largest economy in the world by the late 1960s (up from a Third World basket case under Stalin). Culture is upstream of both politics and economics, good leadership can make bad systems work. Its what happens when an economy goes into failure mode that really distinguishes central planning and market economies.
The USA did a roaring trade with the USSR, starting in 1917. One man's human rights abuse is another man's business opportunity.
The USA did a roaring trade with the USSR, starting in 1917. One man's human rights abuse is another man's business opportunity.
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WTF?
The Soviet Union was not wealthy.
The USA did not trade with the Soviet Union because the USSR abused human rights.
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Americans say that there is absolutely no way for anyone born after 1945 to know WWII history.
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Don't be surprised when you get sent to the killing fields.
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Don't be surprised when you get sent to the killing fields.
Americans say that there is absolutely no way for anyone born after 1945 to know WWII history.
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People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
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Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
