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Originally Posted by Pierre

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 ??

Originally Posted by Pierre

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]

Originally Posted by Hugh

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....

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

Originally Posted by Pierre

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......

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]

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