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Whither Putin’s Russia?
Lev Navrozov
Friday, Oct. 8, 2004
... [exerpt a bit off the target of the article, which is good and describes why a place like Russia isn't really at all interested in freedom for anyone else]
Well, for every nation there are plenty of haters. Emigres from the United States to Soviet Russia explained to me that the United States is a gangland – didn’t I know that President Truman himself never concealed the fact that he had been helped to come to power by the notorious gangster Pendergast, and Truman even attended the gangster’s funeral in 1945? [*]
The America-haters concluded that the United States would never be a democracy, since who are the Americans? They pretend that their ancestors have all come from England, but many of them have come from Germany, a country of Nazism; from Italy, a country of Fascism; or from Spanish-speaking and other tyrannies.
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Nation-haters may err historically. In the 18th and 19th centuries all educated classes of continental Europe from Portugal to Russia spoke French, sometimes better than their mother tongues, and considered the English-speaking to be savages on the outskirts of the world. Voltaire regarded the absolutism of Louis XIV (who said “The State is me”) as the highest peak of political and cultural efflorescence, and he called Shakespeare a “drunken barbarian.”
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http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/10/7/202016.shtml
[*] The p_p_DonWAVIANS come to mind whenever one sees such phrasiology...
Lev Navrozov
Friday, Oct. 8, 2004
... [exerpt a bit off the target of the article, which is good and describes why a place like Russia isn't really at all interested in freedom for anyone else]
Well, for every nation there are plenty of haters. Emigres from the United States to Soviet Russia explained to me that the United States is a gangland – didn’t I know that President Truman himself never concealed the fact that he had been helped to come to power by the notorious gangster Pendergast, and Truman even attended the gangster’s funeral in 1945? [*]
The America-haters concluded that the United States would never be a democracy, since who are the Americans? They pretend that their ancestors have all come from England, but many of them have come from Germany, a country of Nazism; from Italy, a country of Fascism; or from Spanish-speaking and other tyrannies.
…
Nation-haters may err historically. In the 18th and 19th centuries all educated classes of continental Europe from Portugal to Russia spoke French, sometimes better than their mother tongues, and considered the English-speaking to be savages on the outskirts of the world. Voltaire regarded the absolutism of Louis XIV (who said “The State is me”) as the highest peak of political and cultural efflorescence, and he called Shakespeare a “drunken barbarian.”
...
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/10/7/202016.shtml
[*] The p_p_DonWAVIANS come to mind whenever one sees such phrasiology...
