Unimaginable
Sep. 18th, 2005 11:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloTwelve million people died during the Russian Civil War.
Then along came Stalin and he killed and he killed and he killed.
Thirty million Soviet citizens died during World War II
But Russia is still there and not notably underpopulated and some people lived through the whole bloody shambles and are still walking around today.
And we Brits go on about how brave we are because the Germans once dropped a few bombs on London.
Then along came Stalin and he killed and he killed and he killed.
Thirty million Soviet citizens died during World War II
But Russia is still there and not notably underpopulated and some people lived through the whole bloody shambles and are still walking around today.
And we Brits go on about how brave we are because the Germans once dropped a few bombs on London.
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Date: 2005-09-18 09:47 am (UTC)That Russia's experience of "freedom" should be more debilitating than its experience of totalitarian control is horrifying.
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Date: 2005-09-18 12:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-18 02:47 pm (UTC)Extraordinary......