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martyh

13-10-2013 21:00

Re: The lights are on...

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Originally Posted by Pierre (Post 35631731)

I thought that was what you meant, but didn't want to comment as that it show a massive wedge of naivety on your part.

The countries behind the iron curtain were not what you would call " free" countries.

If the mothers of Moscow or Leningrad had started to congregate outside the nuclear bases of the CCCP they would have bee carted off to the gulag.

mmm possibly a lesson to be learned ?? ;)

Hugh	13-10-2013 21:01

Re: The lights are on...

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Originally Posted by Pierre (Post 35631731)

I thought that was what you meant, but didn't want to comment as that it show a massive wedge of naivety on your part.

The countries behind the iron curtain were not what you would call " free" countries.

If the mothers of Moscow or Leningrad had started to congregate outside the nuclear bases of the CCCP they would have bee carted off to the gulag.

That was the point I was trying to make (as I was in the Armed Forces at the time, and was actively involved in analysing and reporting on the USSR/Warsaw Pact capabilities and governmental systems) - the irony of people protesting against our "evil system", but they never felt the need to travel to the Warsaw Pact countries to do the same....

Pierre

13-10-2013 21:04

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Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 35631733)

Yeah but wouldn't that be like going to Iran and campaigning for Christmas or Easter?

Hugh	13-10-2013 21:20

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Originally Posted by Pierre (Post 35631735)

Yeah but wouldn't that be like going to Iran and campaigning for Christmas or Easter?

I didn't realise that people campaigned for Christmas and Easter in the UK.;)

No, it would be like protesting against Nuclear Weapons in two countries that had Nuclear Weapons......:D

I respected their right to protest, I just objected to their hypocrisy about Warsaw Pact nukes (usually the answer given was "they need them for defence against the Western aggressors").

Osem	14-10-2013 15:43

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Did the protestors even maintain a presence outside the Russian embassy for example?

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