Came across this page and had a good laugh.
Except that nothing has changed with the Western media, has it?
If I hear not allowed much oftener; said Sam, I'm going to get angry.
J.R.R.Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
That's not propaganda. The Soviet Union was really run by a giant octopus. These are just aerial photos.
Without the malevolent mollusks, communism absolutely works. Trotsky warned of this danger and was killed by disgruntled Catalan squidshevik.
That was even before the bolsheviks.
Of course, European countries were vast colonial empires themselves but this fact was conveniently left out :)
Speaking about Stalin...
It's every Westerner's innate right to be suspicious of anything due east, don't you know? (Especially anything Slavic or Asian)
I have to say though, Russia really dropped the ball when it supported the Union in the American Civil War; sowing the seeds for American Empire and Russian national suicide in 1918, perhaps?
As an aside, I recall reading about a Tsar in the 1800s who was uncharacteristically 'libertarian' in his outlook, but was killed by an assassin's grenade or somesuch…
AndrewR:As an aside, I recall reading about a Tsar in the 1800s who was uncharacteristically 'libertarian' in his outlook, but was killed by an assassin's grenade or somesuch…
That must be Alexander II. He abolished serfdom, improved the lives of oppressed minorities such as Jews and supported gold standard and pro-market reforms (or at least, his ministers did). Unfortunately, there were a lot of revolutionaries already in Russia and they really didn't like the tsar that actually made people live better - not good for the movement, you see. So they tried to assassinate him several times and finally succeded right before he was supposed to sign the new Constitution that might have prevented the Russian Revolution.
This is sort of vintage (like old t-shirts are vintage)... but somehow more ridiculous. And somewhat ass-backwards. Apparently the capitalists eschew technology that communists use readily. And the communists are so competitive they use drugs to win! Why Stalin was right -- they will out-industrialize the West!
Natalie: Came across this page and had a good laugh. Except that nothing has changed with the Western media, has it?
John Ess: This is sort of vintage (like old t-shirts are vintage)... but somehow more ridiculous. And somewhat ass-backwards. Apparently the capitalists eschew technology that communists use readily. And the communists are so competitive they use drugs to win! Why Stalin was right -- they will out-industrialize the West!
It is all about the eye of the tiger. ;)
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