View Single Post
Old 09-12-05, 04:03 AM   #65
The Avon Lady
Über Mom
 
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Jerusalem, Israel
Posts: 6,147
Downloads: 5
Uploads: 0
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Damo1977
Quote:
Originally Posted by The Avon Lady
Most of the USSR's citizens were prisoners of their own ideology. The beneficiairies of the Communist system were the 2 legged pigs at the top of the government, military, and industry. The rest of the country were reduced to mostly equivalently unhappy and rights-suppressed underlings.
I disagree, I reckon at least half of the USSR citizens, knew what was going on and benefiting from it....
Half? Half benefited? How? What statistics do you base yourself on? Economic ones? Show them here. Waiting.................. :hmm:
Quote:
Otherwise I do not believe the USSR would have survived as long as it did before or after Stalin death.
Regards to N. Korea's Lil' Kim. Not the first. Not the last.
__________________


"Victory will come to us from the wombs of our women."
- Houari Boumedienne, President of Algeria, Speech before the UN, 1974
The Avon Lady is offline   Reply With Quote