Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (125856)	11/30/2009 10:07:34 AM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 542125

"That because you likely aren't old enough to remember people building bomb shelters in all their homes and hiding under tables at school when they practiced bomb attacks. The threat from Russia was hugely more dangerous than anything from Iran. If Iran tried to use a bomb their country would cease to exist. " Ahh-yes. I remember it well. The trips to the steam tunnels down beneath the Grammar School. The propaganda films showing first the flash and and then the ducking techniques. W We did think it was a threat. Little did we know that that peasant Khrushchev pounding his shoe on the UN table saying "We will bury you" was only bluffing. The Soviet Empire, as such, morphed into a political power with rational state power projections post "the Russian Missile Crisis". Prior to that I will agree that there had always been an element of "fanaticism" (Marx/Engles doctrine was akin to a Religious creed) attached to the Communist State. Would you agree that the present Russian State is no longer in these throes? And that Iran's government is driven by religious doctrine?