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   Re: Socialism or Capitalism: What is bet   
   23 Aug 08 15:31:22   
   
   From: kurkku@hassuserveri.fi   
      
   "Anton"  kirjoitti   
   viestissä:g8omac$ink$1@registered.motzarella.org...   
   > James A. Donald kirjoitti:   
   >> James A. Donald:   
   >>>> The timing is suggestive - the satellites started getting frisky   
   >>>> immediately following soviet defeat.   
   >   
   >> Anton:   
   >>> The Soviet Union was defeted by the people in the USSR and its   
   >>> satellites. The people in those countries deserve the credit of the fall   
   >>> of communism. They did it themselves: in East Berlin, Prague, Tallinn,   
   >>> Vilnius, Riga, Moscow etc. Taking the credit to yourself for what THEY   
   >>> did would be incredibly arrogant, unfair and insulting towards them.   
   >   
   >> I was crediting what the contras did.   
   >   
   > The Contras did what they all did in that country: kill peasants and burn   
   > villages and kidnap young boys to become their soldiers. What anybody did   
   > over there had no significance to life in Washington, London, Berlin,   
   > Prague, Riga, Moscow.   
   >   
   > --   
   > Anton   
      
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