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<p>[QUOTE="panzerman, post: 3982946, member: 77704"]Under the Czars the nobility lived in splendour, while the peasant classes where living in poverty. When the Boleshiveks, seized power in November 1917, the masses joined them, and thought things would improve. After five years of Civil War, the Reds won and established the USSR.</p><p>Now, party members/ commisars lived an opulent lifestyle, while the masses suffered from famine/ disease/ poor working conditions/ terror. If comrade Stalin needed workers to build the White Canal project, the OGPU would arrest tens of thousands on false charges and put them into forced labour camps, where millions died of maltreatment/ stravation/ diseases. Names like Kaganovich/ Beria/ Yagoda/ Ezhov/ Menshinshy/ Frankel remind us of the crimes the Communist commited. Putin is like a choirboy compared to those thugs.</p><p>Some day, there will be a democratic government in Russia.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="panzerman, post: 3982946, member: 77704"]Under the Czars the nobility lived in splendour, while the peasant classes where living in poverty. When the Boleshiveks, seized power in November 1917, the masses joined them, and thought things would improve. After five years of Civil War, the Reds won and established the USSR. Now, party members/ commisars lived an opulent lifestyle, while the masses suffered from famine/ disease/ poor working conditions/ terror. If comrade Stalin needed workers to build the White Canal project, the OGPU would arrest tens of thousands on false charges and put them into forced labour camps, where millions died of maltreatment/ stravation/ diseases. Names like Kaganovich/ Beria/ Yagoda/ Ezhov/ Menshinshy/ Frankel remind us of the crimes the Communist commited. Putin is like a choirboy compared to those thugs. Some day, there will be a democratic government in Russia.[/QUOTE]
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