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During Cold War, CIA Plucked Soviet Submarine from Ocean Floor Using Giant Claw

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Re: During Cold War, CIA Plucked Soviet Submarine from Ocean Floor Using Giant Claw

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post #86

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Oh please. Tell that to the people occupied by them from 1968 to 1989. I'm happy to put you in contact.

Well, I just happened to have feedback from some of them, e.g. in Romania: "The INSCOP Research poll revealed that 44.4 percent of the respondents believed that living conditions were better under communism, 15.6 said that they had stayed the same, while only 33.6 claimed that life was worse back then." And that's from 2014.

Stop spreading your lies and propaganda. People living under communism hated it. Even today Romania is the largest emigration source in Europe, in large due to its communist past and corrupt socialist present.

Rather than desperately trying to rewrite history, why don't you take a stroll through Cuba or Venezuela, the current and latest communism victims? Ask those people how much they like it.

Re: During Cold War, CIA Plucked Soviet Submarine from Ocean Floor Using Giant Claw

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That "extravagant" number is from my school book and confirmed on Wikipedia. Another spit, great ! What I said about Romania is that it used to be heavily subsidized at the cost of their own people from other regions and other nations' people, so of course the people in these poor areas had it better than today and liked it more than when the subsidies are gone. That does not excuse anything in any case. Fighting in…

> From my point of view, of course the Russians and other SSSR nations helped win the war and I'm thankful, but again - that excuses nothing. Well, to me being crucial to not living in a Nazi Europe today, counts for a lot and excuses a lot. And I differentiate between bad actors like Stalin and co and their crimes, and a huge state with domestic (at least at first) and large global popular support. > Also, yeah, som…

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