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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!

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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (34308)4/10/1999 11:26:00 PM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
The loans are backed by the countries natural resources in case of default.

Do you know of any banker, anywhere, who will lend money against collateral that the bank has absolutely no chance of recovering in case of default? If you do, can you introduce us?

The thinking of the time was that communism could be the godsend of
humanity, curing poverty and want and so forth. A little for everyone, no more want.


Are you suggesting that international bankers subsidized the Russian revolution as a noble experiment in social engineering, an attempt to eliminate poverty and want? I never knew that the great financiers of that day were so thoroughly liberal and altruistic.

Can you produce documented evidence to support these claims?

The atheist country killed 40-50 million!

An inappropriate comparison. Communism is as much a religion as Christianity, and has the same unfortunate tendency to require conversion by force. All absolutist philosophies, whether religious or political, are equally dangerous.
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