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To: golfer72 who wrote (1501547)	11/14/2024 8:47:12 AM
From: Real Man	1 Recommendation Recommended By rdkflorida2 Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571897

I see Democrats as taking a tougher stance on Putin who is President for life. That also makes their rule more dangerous for nuclear war between NATO and Russia. Putin will nuke the entire NATO starting with the Pentagon. I take anti war effort very seriously. Tulsi Gabbard ran on that platform

To: golfer72 who wrote (1501547)	11/14/2024 9:22:58 AM
From: Real Man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571897

I grew up in a totalitarian country (Soviet Union), I came on a student visa for graduate school and stayed. My PhD advisor in Russia brought me with him, he was one to bulldoze the KGB barriers. We were going temporarily, but once in the US I learned he went permanently. I had no choice but to pick a new Ph D advisor locally and graduate. Both advisors were members of US National Academy of Sciences and were nominated for the Nobel Prize several times. My post doctoral advisor in Florida was a Nobel Prize winner in my field, a brilliant American of course. I am terrified of the fight on terror because that was how the KGB killed my grandfather. He was a foreign spy of course, although, since it happened during KGB purges of 1930-s, history is silent which country he defected to. The confession was beaten out of him by the KGB and he was executed by firing squad or tortured to death. The family got an apology letter from the Khrushchev administration. My father and 2 uncles were put to foster care. My grandmother looked for him through Lenin’s widow, who was a courageous woman untouchable by Stalin who helped the repressed families. She found my dad through her channels and placed him in Moscow with his uncle, where he grew up.He was originally born in the south near Ukrainian border. The phones were tapped and there was a saying that electrical outlets had KGB ears. We made fun, all we could do. Brezhnev was a big target, his mental state was similar to Biden’s, so the joke was he died a long time ago but his corpse was animated and was ruling the country. My dad was an atheist and a member of the Communist Party. My mom was a suppressed Christian who came back into church shortly before she died from colon cancer in her mid 50s. My paternal grandmother was a devoted commie who walked behind Lenin’s casket crying when she was in her 20s. She paid dearly having her husband and two of her children killed by the regime. I never was a commie and hated the regime. However, I fear greatly any hunt of foreign spies and terrorists as a precursor of totalitarian regime, which can be left (commies) or right (Nazi). The second regime killed more Jews in Holocaust, a big memorial in Kyiv to holocaust victims of Baby Yar. Stefan Bandera is celebrated as a national hero,