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Original Technorati articles tagged “ussr”

• in Politics
  US-Pak Duo: What Has Changed Since 1979?
  Having a look at the changing US Pakistani relationship in terms of a common Pakistani
  by guyver1918 / on Oct 28, 2011
• in TV
  A Revolution John Lennon Could Support - The Singing Revolution on PBS
  It doesn’t seem possible—a revolution without artillery? But it happened in Estonia.
  by missbobetier / on Aug 1, 2011
• in TV
  Desert of Forbidden Art Blooms on Independent Lens April 5
  A fascinating story of a secret art collection—hidden in plain sight—worth millions.
  by missbobetier / on Mar 31, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “ussr”

 

• 12 May 2013. A Word on Certain Loud Republican Circles Amongst Us

  
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  Birds of a feather flock together… and they’re GOOD birds, not shitbirds. ______________________________ I say the following… so, don’t instigate a witch-hunt of those who hate the immoral and pernicious pabulum dispensed by the Republican Party . It’s time for Christ’s Church to disassociate ...
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• Statement of Pyotr Simonenko, Head of the KPU on Victory Day, 9 May 2013

  
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  ______________________________ Dear veterans! Dear compatriots! I warmly greet you on the Day of the Great Victory! 68 years have passed since that spring when Soviet soldiers hoisted the Red Victory Banner over the Reichstag . In the history of the 20th century, no event was more heroic or glorious. On top of ...
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• Fact vs Falsification & Flattery in New Delhi (Revised 12 May 2013)

  
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  From Facebook, 12 May 2013 The saddest thing about Manmohan Singh qua statesman was simply that he quietly loved and rewarded well the sycophancy around him, and believed the myths and propaganda and general fiction created by his flatterers about his own purported achievements as an economic policy-maker since ...
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• Teen Mom Farrah Abraham failing to parlay her sex tape into genuine fame is similar to the Soviet Unions failure to build an effective socialist society. You need to start with a solid infrastructure.

  
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• Watching beards grow in Partyslava

  
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  The 20th edition of the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles kicked off in Bratislava this morning and this year’s fashion statement is beards.  Here is US blogger Ryan Opaz modelling some porno topiary while my Panel #1 consists of judges from France, Portugal and Belgium and is a hairy affair. Bratislava has so many ...
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• The Victory Flag Was Red

  
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  On April 30, 1945, at exactly 2:25 in the afternoon, Soviet Army Sargents Mijaíl Yegórov and Melitón Kantaria, who were being protected by fire from their squad, were finally able to reach the roof of the German Reichstag,and placed there the Red Flag of Victory. Hitler had been defeated by the Red Army of the ...
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• ON THE AVENUES: Similar to Yuri, Buda Hills, 1987.

  
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  ON THE AVENUES: Similar to Yuri, Buda Hills, 1987. A weekly web column by Roger A. Baylor. When Yuri Andropov replaced the enfeebled Leonid Brezhnev as Soviet kingpin in 1982, there was no way of knowing that the ex-KGB operatives stint at the top would last a scant 15 months. Andropovs severe health problems ...
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• What is Eastern Europe? How did places like Gepidia, Nitra,...

  
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  What is Eastern Europe? How did places like Gepidia, Nitra, Great Moravia, the Avar Khaganate, Habsburgia, Pannonia, Thrace, Dacia, Moesia, nomadic Göktürks under the Rouran Khaganate, Dalmatia, Cimmeria, Anatolia, the Great Seljuq Empire, Corinth, Onoghuria, Scythia, Syrmia, Vojvodina, Bulgaria, Carpathia, ...
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• The Memory Palace Episode 53: Guinea Pigs

  
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  Show:  The Memory Palace 53 http://traffic.libsyn.com/memorypalace/guinea_pigs.mp3 ...
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• Armless Artist Denied UK Entry Visa. Reason? No Fingerprints.

  
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  Courtesy The Atom Project Facebook page. Born in the nuclear test area of the former USSR, Karipbek Kuyukov has no arms. According to news reports, thousands of children were born with similar deformities during the nuclear test program. Despite his disability Karipbek has become a renown artist, using his feet to ...
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• 7 May 2013. Sergei Yolkin’s World. An All-Nighter with Kafka

  
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  An All-Nighter with Kafka Sergei Yolkin 2013 ****** This is a holdover from Sov times… you can say what you will, but the Sovs weren’t as crass and grasping as the Affluent Effluent American business class is. They did try to make high culture available to common people … and they did a ...
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• Vladimir Putin Brings Back The USSR’s Hero Of Labor Medal

  
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  The Medal of Labor and Medal of Socialist Labor, side by side. Once upon a time, it was the highest honor that a citizen of the Soviet Union could receive.  It went to weapons designers, famous cosmonauts , and the best of the best that the people of Russia.  However, since the fall of the USSR, the medal has ...
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• Red menace…

  
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  It’s May Day. Maybe I know that because I majored in history or maybe it’s because I was a geeky kid who remembers the last days of the Red menace pretty clearly. In either case, May 1st use to be a big deal. Unionists, hippies, malcontents, communists, and leftists of every stripe flocked to it once upon a time. ...
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• Missionaries Increase Activities In Russia’s Caucasus After Boston Bombings

  
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  By BosNewsLife News Center MOSCOW/BUDAPEST ( BosNewsLife )-- Christian missionaries say they have stepped up efforts to spread the "Gospel pf peace and hope" in Russias volatile North Caucasus after revelations that the suspected Boston Marathon bombers arrived from that region.
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• REWIND: May Daze, or "as opiates go, booze is vastly preferable to religion."

  
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  A yearly reminder of relevance around the world, and irrelevance in America, as originally published at NAC on April 26, 2012. --- ON THE AVENUES: May daze . A weekly web column by Roger A. Baylor. By the summer of 1987, when I first visited the geopolitical conglomeration formerly known as the Soviet ...
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• Fact vs Falsification & Flattery in New Delhi (Revised 1 May 2013)

  
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  From Facebook 1 May 2013 from C.G. Somiah’s *The Honest Always Stands Alone* (Niyogi Books): “In the next meeting of the Planning Commission, the soft-spoken Dr Singh deliberated at length on the negative economic indicators prevalent in the country, which could not be ignored for providing relief in any ...
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• Graham Fuller Helped Start the Iran-Contra Affair

  
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  "Ex" CIA officer Graham E. Fuller gets around. The former father-in-law of the Boston Marathon bombers was a key advocate of the U.S. "turn to the Muslim Brotherhood," as well as a defender of the Fetullah Gulen organization against charges of involvement with the CIA. Now, it emerges that he was pivotal in setting ...
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• Science Fiction as Social Commentary

  
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  The Pink Flamingo has a not so dirty little secret.  I love science fiction.  I’m a Trekkie, unfortunately, I admit to being one of the original Trekkies.  I keep watching the truly abysmal movies in the Sci Fi Channel, hoping that for once, one of them might be half-way decent.  They rarely are, but what the ...
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• How the cause of humanity never appeals to Americans, while war mongering comes naturally!

  
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  I had been quite upset over the completely politically motivated Oscar award for the Best Picture to a rank ordinary, non thrilling, slow paced, average film called Argo, specially in the year when Lincoln was released, and Django Unchained – with its heart in a similar place and with film making par excellence – ...
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• Cuban Missile Crisis The Brink of War

  
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  Cuban Missile Crisis: The Brink of War In Saving Jackie K , JFK’s Vice President, Lyndon Baines Johnson , laments the Commander-in-Chief’s missteps regarding the communist island nation of Cuba. But no one can debate Kennedy’s success in thwarting the volatile Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. On October ...
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