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To: skinowski who wrote (90368)4/5/2003 5:14:58 PM
From: Sun Tzu  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 281500
 
I agree with everything you said. What is missing from your position, is an acknowledgement that pretty much everything you said about the Soviets was also true about the regimes we supported in opposing them. You cannot say it was wrong of them to make people disappear and at the same time say it was ok for us to install proxies that did the same things because we were fighting the soviets.



To: skinowski who wrote (90368)4/5/2003 5:25:16 PM
From: maceng2  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
Former USSR air force officer told me his favorite hero was Pinochet.

"At least he got rid of the d**n communists and held democratic elections"

[seemingly the air force swore a lot by tradition]

fiu.edu

chuckmorse.com

By soviet standards, he was an OK guy on human rights, he said.


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