tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30405512.post4955673412112859559..comments2023-11-02T03:51:26.343-07:00Comments on Coalition for Fog: Boris Yeltsin, 1931-2007Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30405512.post-88170265148514928132013-02-17T22:07:42.979-08:002013-02-17T22:07:42.979-08:00The Male Enhancement employed for instinctive male...The Male Enhancement employed for instinctive male Underside Course:<br />Is It Worth Stressful? Butt course, forfend it resulted in an growth in <br />the volume of male interjection. Say around a moldable-silicone bearer.<br />You will be needful to start out with launching point exercises for a calendar week, and <br />then travel into a founder Tribistol are some normal herb tea supplementsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30405512.post-72443187394353688912007-05-01T17:52:00.000-07:002007-05-01T17:52:00.000-07:00Victor, the fact the Putin is a nationalist rather...Victor, the fact the Putin is a nationalist rather than a Marxist (let alone a true Stalinist) doesn't necessarily make him any less of a danger to the West. Nationalism in an of itself can be a powerful force, indeed (as the ideologically emasculated Chinese are demonstrating as we speak). In that vein, what evidence do you have that Putin is being "somewhat helpful" in the war against Islam? Joseph D'Hippolitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15571554907399914529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30405512.post-21622874687456626792007-04-30T19:47:00.000-07:002007-04-30T19:47:00.000-07:00Nikolai:I don't think that it was an inaccurate ch...Nikolai:<BR/><BR/><I>I don't think that it was an inaccurate characterization because the word "conservative", as it was used in Russia back then, simply described a frame of mind of people who didn't want to change their system.</I><BR/><BR/>That's fine for Russian usage, where both the specific context made it obvious what was meant, and the term had no extant currency and so the etymological Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30405512.post-67813120282570282722007-04-30T19:37:00.000-07:002007-04-30T19:37:00.000-07:00Joe:Agreed. Nobody would confuse Yeltsin for a par...Joe:<BR/><BR/>Agreed. Nobody would confuse Yeltsin for a particularly good president once in power, not as someone who was able to successfully institutionalize a liberal, democratic revolution.<BR/><BR/>That said, as nasty a tyrant as Putin is, the very lack of ideology beyond Russian nationalism that you cite is what matters most to me, an Anglo-American threatened with being nuked every day ofAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30405512.post-32389209048253756512007-04-26T07:48:00.000-07:002007-04-26T07:48:00.000-07:00People in Russia and elsewhere called the Communis...People in Russia and elsewhere called the Communist coup plotters "conservatives" because they didn't want change and wanted to conserve the system they knew. They didn't want radical change. They wanted to preserve the old (and after over 70 years in power, the Bolshevik system did feel old and decrepit). <BR/><BR/>I don't think that it was an innacurate characterization because the word "Nichevohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03568375650485843192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30405512.post-77839985582090019782007-04-24T21:50:00.000-07:002007-04-24T21:50:00.000-07:00Undoubtedly, Yelstin demonstrated great courage in...Undoubtedly, Yelstin demonstrated great courage in resisting the coup. Too bad he didn't demonstrate it while serving as Russia's president.<BR/><BR/>That contrast illustrates the fundamental problem with revolutions (and Yeltsin's act was indeed revolutionary, as were Gorbachev's programs of <I>glasnost</I> and <I>perestroika</I>). If they are based on ideas, then those ideas must be carried on Joseph D'Hippolitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15571554907399914529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30405512.post-76509451588549951032007-04-24T17:51:00.000-07:002007-04-24T17:51:00.000-07:00Yeltsin deserves a spot along with Reagan, Thatche...Yeltsin deserves a spot along with Reagan, Thatcher, Pope John Paul II, Lech Walesa and Vaclav Havel as one of the chief pallbearers of Communism.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30405512.post-37994255685011419012007-04-24T14:09:00.000-07:002007-04-24T14:09:00.000-07:00The Blackadder says: Excellent post.The Blackadder says: <BR/><BR/>Excellent post.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com