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Communist Victory

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Submitted: Jun 26 2005
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For those of you who wish to celebrate the victory of the Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War, here is just the GDM theme for you: the Red Flag being raised over the ruins of the Reichstag in 1945.

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This is based on the CleanLinux GDM theme. The wallpaper is by Masonic at http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/6216452/

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HATE TO YOU

by magoseitor on: Jul 7 2005

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magoseitor

I really feel sick when i see these 'rebel commies"... ..."ohh...capitalism is so bad.., the goverment sucks..."

THAT, MY ASS

IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT COMMUNISM MEANS, GO TO CHINA COME TO CUBA, WHERE I FUCKING LIVE AND FROM WHERE I CAN'T FUCKING SCAPE. WHERE YOU LAY IN THE BED TONIGHT THINKING HOW ARE YOU GOING TO FEED YOUR FAMILY TOMORROW,...WHAT CRAZY IDEAS WILL CASTRO HAVE THE NEXT DAY...

FUCK DUDE...!!! I AM EVEN RISKING MY LIVE JUST FOR HAVING A COMPUTER AND A PIRATED INTERNET CONECTTION....DID YOU KNEW THEY ARE ILEGAL TO THE NORMAL WORKING CITIZEN....THE PILARS OF THE SOCIETY???

Learn MORE first assholes!! don't put your tinny minds in that tyranic, totallitarys idiologys that the only go is DICTATORSHIP!!!

Any moment you doubt a single word...
Come to Cuba, i give you home and food for a night,...and then try to go to an "open place" and say something "againts" the goverment or the regime...
Let's see in what place do you sleep that night then.......sure it won'y be a pretty one....

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Re: HATE TO YOU

by SIthLord on: Jul 7 2005

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SIthLord

Well comunism is a nice utopian idea, but just like the church (another good idea) is ruined by man

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FREEDOM!!!

by matwis on: Jul 7 2005

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matwis

I know what do you feel. But do not lost a hope. Believe! one day your country will be free, like many other countries that liberated themselves from that criminal system. 20 years ago nobody believed that it is possible that Poland, Czech Rep., Hungary and others will be free, that Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, etc... will be independend countries.

But few years later Soviet Union broke down, Soviet Army came back home and millions of people in Central and East Europe become to be free. There will be also time for Cuba, China, Bielarus, North Korea and other contries. Red fanatics will not stop that.

Sadly, nobody will give back life to millions of murdered people.

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Re: FREEDOM!!!

by magoseitor on: Jul 8 2005

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magoseitor

matwis, thanks for those words...
yeah..some day this regime will be bringed down. And people will be able to have free speach and their OWN properties, and all the human rights a country deserves.

But like you said...the lives that were lost,... will only remain in our hearts.
Both, the people killed for their will to be free and the ones vanished trying to scape over the sea.

Meanwhile....we gotta keep struggling.

My respect towards you matwis.

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Re: Re: FREEDOM!!!

by matwis on: Jul 10 2005

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matwis

You have something precious: freedom in your mind. You are invincible, because they can't manipulate your mind, reason and soul.

They are lost. Communism did not work good in any country. The most obvious prove is that they can not propose anything except brutal force to keep people in they system. Everywhere communists were governing, they imprisoned and murdered people who had other views, they had to establish censorschip to prevent people to know the truth. People escaped and still escape from communistic countries to countries where is "terrible capitalism". It is difficult to show many examples of people who chose oposite direction of emigration ;-).
Their time is close to end.

All the best fot you!

I hope you are not hurt by "Dennis".

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Re: FREEDOM!!!

by SIthLord on: Jul 10 2005

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SIthLord

Well maybe they were free from rusia but still the comunists ruled... They dont call them selfs that but it's the same... I know 'cause I'm from one of those ex-comunist country

Anyway I say it's a nice gdm theme

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Re: HATE TO YOU

by Nixen on: Jul 12 2005

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Nixen

Ha ha ha :)
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It's your place

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Re: HATE TO YOU

by weatheredwatcher on: Jul 13 2005

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My friend, if you live in Cuba, I must tell you that you are not in a Communist country. China is also NOT a communist country. The Great Soviet Union, although they were inspired by the ideas of communism, they too were not a true communist society. (Why do you think they were called the Union of Soviet Socialist Rebuplics?) Cuba is a dictatorship not communism. True Communism is elgitarian, that is, every body is equal. And yes, it is really just a nice idea (utopia) rather than a very practical solution at the moment. I am currently in the process of writing a series of articles on true communism at my website www.weatheredwatcher.com

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Re: Re: HATE TO YOU

by matwis on: Jul 16 2005

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matwis

There are communist countries in the meaning they are ruled by communists. In every country ruled by communists, they established dictatorship, accompanied by terror, camps and usually by genocides. In every case there were a lot of slogans about egalitarism, justice, freedom but always it was finished like in "Animal farm", everybody was equal but some of "equal" people were "more equal" than others and those who were not fit to regime were imprisoned, tortured, closed in camps, murdered or in the best case "only" discriminated. It was not freedom but bloody regimes.
It is not "propoganda that the United States Government spewed out" (as you described it on your web site) but experiences of people who were living in these countries. Soviet films are not good source of truth about that system. Rather read e.g. books of people who survived soviet camps, soviet invasion and occupation, deportations, etc. They are more reliable than soviet propaganda.

How many people must die more to prove you that way to communism is wrong way? Next 100 millions of victims?

Nazizm was commonly condemned, but it is strange that although communists are resposible for much more death victims than nazis, communism still have many sympathizers, even between educated people living in countries where is wide access to information. Maybe it is because communism had no its "Nuremberg trial", and whereas many nazis had their trials in fact nobody was punished for communistic genocides.

Before you will write articles about your ideal system think about these millions of children, old people, woman and men, who were, and still are mudered in camps, died from forced famines, totured, deportated, shot down. And think about your resposibility for possible futher tragedies that your ideas may cause.

OK, That's all, it is not a place to discuss about politics (but politic theme provoke it). Moreover, reading your site, I see that it would be finished in loooong discussion ;-)

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Re: Re: HATE TO YOU

by jenic on: Oct 23 2005

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There is no such thing as true communism. It is impossible for man to acheive such an equal society. Socialism IS Communism. But Communism is not Socialism. Socialism is but the first tier in the utopian society conceived by Marx and other such disillusioned men. For us to create such a society would require perfect, humble, unambitious people. For which there is no one.

Jenic Rycr
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Re: HATE TO YOU

by yangguan on: Aug 27 2005

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yangguan

The things you say about Cuba are right, because thats your county and you will know!But about China you know a shit!I am (pure)Austrian and I am living in China since one year. Here is
everything aright, I have a normal job in a normal chinese School and most people have an acceptatble live!They can feed their families, be dressed in a normal way, normal people even start buying cars!
I really like it here and plan to stay a long time! I have access to ALL european
newspapers, Internet-Access is avaible
for everybody(in the towns) and you feel no restrictions. If you will tell me now
about the controlled Internet in China, what do you think is going on in the western world sice 9-11??? DONT MAKE TROUBLES, DONT GET TROUBLES And these rule I can accept. If you dont beleve me, come here and enjoy it yourself!Claus

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cocksuckers

by rusrus on: Jul 22 2005

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rusrus
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shut up, fucking busters!!!
stop trying to cause moral damage to MY country!! haha!! comunism!!
you're all punky-ass bitches!!
I promise, if I see you smwhere i kick your muthufucking ass!!!

sd
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answer

by matwis on: Jul 23 2005

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matwis

This is an answer to Potemkin post in discussion, it seems me that treat is closed, so I add the new one.

I am sorry Potemkin, but reading your text is for me like traveling in the time. It looks mostly like text taken from soviet handbook of history for children written in the time of Stalin regime. History is not such simple, communists are not white and all others are not black.

It was for me questionable if it is sence in discussing, but finally I decided to answer. I am sure, that when you read my post you will think that all what I wrote are "imperialistic lies" and "american propaganda" or something like that. If I am right in my suspecions, don't lost a time to answer. I have a better idea. Let's check if I am liar. Search books and internet and check if I am wrong. But not limit yourself to soviet books. "The truth will make you free" :-)

Also, I must add that I am really happy that you wrote your post. In fact, you confirmed that it is very naive to think that communists stopped its totallitary way of thinking. You evidently still believe that Stalins methods were OK, and if communists will be enough strong, we may suspect that you will use the same methods like Stalin. You shold discuss also with weatheredwatcher, he thinks that it is possible to agree communism with liberty.

So, let's go

> From the moment of its birth, the Soviet Union was
> encircled by enemies who wanted nothing more than to
> strangle it in its cradle.

The main enemy of Soviet Union and communists who ruled it were their own citizens. They were the main target of represions and many of them were fighting with bolshevics.
And.. try to wonder, why countries that were surrounding Russia were their enemies, and what were their aims?

> The Western imperialists invaded the Soviet Union in 1918
> (the 'Intervention')

It is great oversimplification, myth built by communists to present Soviet Union as a poor country surrounded by enemies, that might justify all genocides, crimes, russian/soviet imperialism etc..

In fact, the Western countries (GB, France, USA and Japan) during "intervention" sent comparativelly small expeditions, mainly to prevent Russia from desintgration and also to safe their transports of ammunition that they had sent before to help russian govermnent. It was reasonable, Russia was allied with them. They were never sent enough strong forces to perform any serious operations, although their white russian friends were bagging for help.

They had really great military potential to crush Red Army in short time, but they didn't not used it. Notce, that in 1920 soviet army were beated by polish forces that were much less in number of soldiers and weaker equipped than french or british armies.

Other nations like Poles, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Finns, Bielorussians etc, (some of them supported by Germans soldiers that remained in Central Europe) were liberating themselves from russian (and german, austrian) occupation and fighting fot their independance. In many cases they were also fighting each others. They were not seriously involved in internal russian-russian fights, moreover reds were for them not worse than whites. For example Poles in 1920 refused to help Denikin, probably it saved bolshevics.

> and started a Civil War

The Civil War was started by Lenin and company. In first and last free election in Soviet Union bolshevics gained c.a. 24% of votes. So, it is difficult to say that they were supported by russian citizens. But communists, as usually, knew better what people think, want and need than people, so they overtake the rule with a use of force. Moreover they officialy announced Civil War. Trotscki said: "Our party is for civil war. Civil war is war for bread. Cheers for civil war!". In May and June 1918 bolshevics government annouced decrees about requisitions of food from peasants. See also below. Communists lost possibility to built modern, free, democratic country and choose the civil war.

> in which
> millions of workers and peasants were killed.

The most of workers and peasants were murdered by communists. It is a myth that peasants and workers commonly supported communists, contrary to the other options. Especially peasants. At the beginning they were happy that they got fields, but when bolshevics ordered them to give their food, cows and later farms to government, they changed their feels to reds. Peasants were defending their properties, formed groups of partisants fighting against bolshevics. In July and August 1918 in the territories controled by communists, about 110 uprisings of peasants were noticed. Of course government classified them as "kulaks rebelies", however all classes in villages participated them (both poor, and rich peasants). During next three years peasants made much more rebelies and riots, suppresed by communists with brutal force and atrocities. Later, Stalin made forced famine on Ukraine and other teritories that resulted in millions of death victims. The number of victims of starvation and communistic crimes on Ukraine during that forced famine was comparable to number of Jews murdered by nazis during the holocaust. The total number of victims of collectivisation in Soviet Russia was at least two times higher. Also workers made many protets and demonstrations, communists answered as usuall....

> It was those same imperialists who had started the

> First World War,

bolshevisc? ;-))

> a completely unnecessary conflict in which countless

> millions were killed and which reduced Europe to ruin,

However there were also positive results of WW I. Many nations liberated themselves from russian, german and austrian occupation and formed their own states.

> caused by nothing more than the imperialist Powers of

> Europe trying to divvy up the spoils of imperialism.

If you want to say something about imperialism, please answer yourself: how many of nations and countries were incorporated in Russia, and later in Sovied Union? British and French empires were desintegrated in short time after WWII, but soviet empire survived much longer. Wasn't empire?

> It is true that Lenin, and after him Stalin, set up a

> system of corrective-labour camps, in which thousands

> and eventually millions of people were imprisoned.

If they were 'corrective' for anbybody, maybe for some of the communists who realised there how their system really looks like.

> However, this was entirely necessary -

Oh yes, to built totalitary system. The same way of explanaton was presented by nazis to justify holocaust.

> there were elements within Soviet society who longed
> for the return of the capitalist-imperialists, who
> were eager to sell their country to its enemies.

I see that you completelly don't know what was GULAG, and who was imprisoned there. At the beginning of course probably true enemies of the new system were imprisoned. But soviet regime was terrible efficient in "cleanig" the country from opossition, so true opposision quickly was imprisoned or murdered.
But totalitary system cannot exist without enemy, and Stalin neded to have millions of slave workers to built its "great power". In his country and in countries that were invaded by Soviets he had a lot of people who could be changed into slaves. So, there were imprisoned for example people who were not enough entusiastic to new system, who were criticizing some of achievements of soviet technology, educated people including professors, teachers, policemen, former soldiers, people who were travelling abroad, even stamp collectors (because they COULD have contact with people in other countries) etc.

When NKVD members couldn't find enough number of 'peoples enemies' they frequently catched random people, they knew that if they would not be enough efficient in catching "enemies" it will be called as 'sabotage'. Of course not all of victims were enclosed in GULAG, some of them were deportaded to Kazakhstan, Siberia and other places, frequently with all families including children. Frequently 'enemies' were murdered and families deportated. Many of them did not survived even transport that took sometimes few months. Many of people were just murdered and hidden in mass graves.

Moreover, Stalin also imprisoned and murdered most of old communists, generals and officers of Red Army. It was one of the causes why soviet army, the biggest in the world, was such easily bitten at the beginning of german invasion on SU. So, millions of victims killed by Germans may also be 'gracefull' to Stalin.

You should also read more how Stalin was murdering members of "comintern' and many other communists. So, be carefull, if your dreams will come true and stalinism will be back one day, you will be a very good candidate to live in camp.

> Indeed, in 1991, they did precisely this - Russia was
> literally sold off to the highest bidder. Not since the
> time of the fall of ancient Rome has such cynical treason
> been seen.

Really? It was one of the best things that Russia had done ever. You could try to save SU only by a force, but that would result in next civil war, much more bloody than previous one. Some of the nations built heir own states, others released themselves from soviet domination. Is it bad? For whom? Only for russian/soviet imperialists. Neither for Ukrainians, Lithuanians, Bielaussians etc.. nor for normal Russians who respects the human rights it shouldn't be something wrong. Russia lost part of their empre, but not russian country. Russians had also their chance to built democratic country, for free people. It is subject for other discussion if that chance was used or lost.

Do you think that Russia have right to decide how other nations may live?

And don't compare Soviet Union to Roman Empire. Romans joined many teritorries, many of people changed into slaves, but were widespread culture, development and civilization. What was a result of soviet domination? What soviets left in European countries that were under their control or occupation? Poverty and backwardness. Who will pay for it?

> These traitors and enemies of the working people existed in
> Lenin's time and in Stalin's time;

The worst enemies for Russian people are your own dictators, Lenin and mostly Stalin were murdered probably more soviet people than Hitler and all your external enemies together. They built terror that stroke mainy citizens of their country.

> they formed a vast Fifth Column inside Soviet society.
> Without the Gulag, these elements would have thrown open
> the gates of the nation to Hitler's Wehrmacht, thereby
> handing victory in WWII to the Nazis.

The same was said by nazis about Jews. Results were simillar also.

> By preventing this,
> Stalin saved the world from the nightmare of a Nazi
> takeover.

You are talking about collaboration with a Hitler? Don't you know who was Hitler's closed ally? Who signed German-Soviet pact in 1939? SU together with III Reich divided Europe. At first they parted Poland, after german attack Stalin waited 17 days waiting when Hitler crush main Polish forces, and joined the invasion. Soviet and Germans forces organized common victory parade in Brest Litovsk (you should make another theme "communists victory" with a photo taken there). Stalin was actively collaborating with Hitler supporting him with oil, food and other natural sources, also nazis and NKVD were collaborating together in fighting against polish resistance movement.

Stalin was so active in collaboration that even gave to gestapo german anti-fasists who escaped from Germany to Sovied Union. Soviet soldiers were shooting to people who were escaping from territories occupied by nazis to SU, soviet newspapers were annoucing the frienship and brotherhood forever between Soviet Russia and Germany.

Later, Stalin attacked Finland (and lost many soldiers, brave Finns were fighting much better than Russians), joined Baltic countries and Bukovina (of course in soviet point of view it was not imperialism). When Hitler attacked France his tanks were fulled by russian oil, communists in France were sabotting french defense, in USA they tried to stop american help for Great Britain. Alliance and brothership of two totallitary systems. However of course both friends were thinking how to betray his ally.

> And most of the ruling classes of the Eastern European
> nations had eagerly collaborated with the Nazis during
> the War;

In some cases it is true, in others not. In some cases it can be easilly explained. In countries that were allied with Germany before the war, an impotrant factor was that they feared communism. At that time nazis murdered much less people than communists. Moreover e.g. Hungary had short experience with communists. During the war, e. g. Latvia and Lithuania were organized forces that were collaborating with Germans. But first occupants of these countries were Russians, not Germans. Soviet invaders established bloody terror in occupied countries, including mass crimes, mass deportations and other 'goodies' that they usually offered to "protected" nations. When Germans kiced off sovied army, they were invited as liberators. Beria planned a next big deportations for citizens of that coutries for a night 27/28 June 1941, so German invasions for many of potential victims could be really seen as liberation and saving their life. In their point of wiev: "the enemy of our enemy is our friend". And when you are talking about responsibility of nations remember that also more than million of soviets soldiers joined german forces (e.g. Vlasov).

On the other hand it is interesting who was called by soviet propaganda to be nazi collaborators. For example NKVD invited for a meeting members of polish underground government for negotiations about future fate of Poland. Soviets guarranted their safety by "honour of Red Army". When Poles appeared, they were kidnapped to Moscow. These people were fighting agains Germans since first days of WWII, were fighting when soviets were collaborating with nazis, formed the biggest underground resistance movement in Europe, but finally were said to be... germans collaborators. Also many other members of resistance movements were arested, tortured, deportaded or murdered, even those who were during several monts fighting together with Soviets against Germans. It is one of the most striking examples of soviet lies, betrayal and propagada.

> their oppressed peoples were liberated from the Nazi yoke
> by the Soviet Red Army.

Yes, soviet soldiers saved life of many people. Really many people in these countries remember it. But soviet army did not give a real freedom and independance for these countries. It established new regime that resulted in next deportations, mass crimes etc. Even if that new regime was after war not such terrible as nazi terror it was real terror and many of people who survived nazi occupation, even who were fighting against germans during many years, did not survive soviet "liberation".

> The threat of a renewed attack from the imperialists
> remained after 1945, doubly so since the West had the
> Bomb and the Soviet Union had only its conventional
> forces to protect itself.

They had bomb, before russians stole its technology, they could destruct you completelly, but they didn't. Why? See also how many people were under communists rule in 1945 and how many were 10, 20, 30 years later. Communism, bloody totalitary system was spreaded quickly and it was dangerous for the humanity. It gave powerty, starvation, terror and death for hundreeds of millions of people. Fortuatelly, finally it was stopped and defeated, in many of countries. Not only by 'capitalist countries' but also or maybe mainly, by citizens (including workers and peasants) of countries when communists ruled.

> To draw Eastern Europe into the Soviet sphere of
> influence was therefore an absolute stategic necessity
> - there could be no repetition of Hitler's surprise
> Blitzkrieg of 1941.

Naive explanation. Soviets paranoid obsessions did not give them right to occupy other countries.
SU was the biggest country in the world, but neither for SU nor for Russian Empire it never was enough. Soviet imperialists were not thinking about defensing themeselves or anybody else, but about conquering the world and widespread communism over the world, that was comunnistic doctrine. Notice that the military forces of Warsaw Pact had typical character of offensive, not defensive, army.

> And the policy worked - the West did not invade
> again for another four decades.

...but Soviets invaded other countries.

> You talk of the millions who suffered and died in the camps;

Yes, however as I can see, for communists as for nazis it is completelly not a problem.

There are much more of simillarities between communists and nazis, but it is also subject for other discussion.

> what of the millions who suffered and died in the
> wars of imperialism,

Many of people, but don't forget that many of these conflicts were also wars with a huge partcipation of soviet imperialism, including WWII.

> in the slums and ghettos of capitalist societies,

OK, tell me how many millions of people died in capitalists ghettos during last 90 years in Europe and America? Why people risk their life escaping from communistic countries?

> and in the Nazi death camps?

Less than in communistic camps in Soviet Union, China, Cambodia, Noth Korea etc...

By the way, do you know that some of nazi camps were still working after WWII, but under soviet rule?

> The Soviet Union, and its armed forces, saved the world from that.

Not only Soviet Union. East front was not the only one. Also you were supported by transport of food, ammunition, weapons, vehicles...., by partisants actions, that destroyed many of german transports going to east front. By the way, many of these partisants were after "liberation" arrested, tortured,, imprisoned or just murdered by Soviets or their collaborators.

OK, now think about it, read books or at least Internet, check if I am wrong. If you want to continue the discussion, write me at my e-mail.

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by Potemkin on: Jul 23 2005

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And all this just because I submitted a GDM theme to gnome-look.org! 8-0

I don't think this is the right place to begin a politico-historical debate about Communism, and I don't feel like continuing it by email either; we are clearly never going to persuade each other, so let's just agree to disagree, okay?

And to lighten the mood, here's a Lenin joke I heard once:

Lenin headed directly to Paradise after he died. He thought he had done a lot of good for the oppressed, so he deserved retirement in Paradise. He knocked on Heaven's door:
"Knock, knock!"
God shouted from his cosmically gigantic and perfectly spherical office:
"Who's there?"
"Vladimir Ilyich Lenin."
"Okay, okay! The last one in be sure to close the door. It's kind of cold in here..."
God studied carefully Lenin's dossier and decided to send him to the most suitable place: Hell.

A short time passed after Lenin's resettlement to Hell. Satan stormed into God's office one day.
"Almighty, pray hear my complaint! Hell is no longer functional. Lenin and his party nationalized the boilers, the furnaces... the whole of Hell. Sinners and devils spend time in interminable Party meetings. In whatever time is left, they all gather in a huge choir. Women are always in front, men in the back rows. Everything must be absolutely politically correct. They rehearse The Internationale and other revolutionary songs, every day and every night. The electricity bill alone, Almighty God, will bankrupt You. Right now, Your Law is not observed: Nobody suffers, nobody is tortured. Pray, Almighty God, take Lenin back to Paradise!"

Lenin was sent back to Paradise.

A short time passed after Lenin's transfer to Paradise. Satan stormed into God's office one day.
"God Almighty, pray hear my complaint! Hell is no longer functional. The sinners and devils want Lenin back. The sinners and devils together declared a general strike. They threaten to have a Revolution. Pray, God, deport Lenin to Hell!"

"Listen up, comrade Satan! First of all, God does not exist..."

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Re: Re: answer

by matwis on: Jul 27 2005

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Old joke but good joke, and... international ;-)
Ok, let's finish discussion, but I encourage you to read more about history, in different sources. It is very interesting and you will see that many things are not such simple as they may look at the beginning.

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by Potemkin on: Jul 29 2005

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I have read many of those different sources, including Solzhenitsyn's 'Gulag Archipelago'. As I recall, another of those dissident sources was Alexander Zinoviev, who was once one of the leading dissident writers and defectors in the 1980s. But his eyes were opened by what happened to Russia after the fall of Communism in 1991, and he now regards Stalin as "the greatest political genius of all time". He has seen the error of his ways, and is now pro-Soviet. And this is a man who, unlike Solzhenitsyn, actually plotted to assassinate Stalin in the 1930s, and who spent the next half century protesting against the Soviet government. Zinoviev has seen the error of his opposition to the Soviet system, and has accepted the essential truth of Marxism-Leninism. You can read about him at http://www.zinoviev.ru/eng/wrong.html and http://www.plp.org/books/Stalin/node91.html.

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Nice theme!

by Reikinio on: Aug 19 2005

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Sad to see some people are still brainwashed though.

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Re: Nice theme!

by Potemkin on: Aug 19 2005

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You mean brainwashed into capitalism? If so, I agree with you.

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by bugBear on: Aug 30 2005

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Capitalism, communism, same shit different color. Either way people get screwed, either surreptitiously (rendered "worthless" and forgotten) or overtly (some bizarre notion of "equality" and then being murdered for thinking).

I've particularly no sympathy for communism or whatever you wish to call it: extreme socialism, socialism in one state or any other form.

Your "theme", Potemkin, particularly with the attached comment has no merit - either as a joke or as a serious piece of work. It's an affront to humanity that has suffered enough because of these "ideals".

Thumbs down to you buddy.

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by Potemkin on: Sep 14 2005

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You shouldn't believe the lies the ruling class have been spreading for decades about Communism. How many millions are dying right now across the world as a result of 'globalisation' and capitalist exploitation? How many children are starving because their government has to replay the usurous rates of interest on loans they took from obscenely wealthy banks in the developed world? If we were to add up the total number of victims of global capitalism, how many tens of millions would it be?

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:)

by Artificial on: Oct 15 2005

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Nice GDM

Locus suspectus intempesta nocte
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I like it

by Thunder on: Dec 4 2005

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For some reason, I've always been drawn to the Soviet ensignia. The Hammer and Sickle. It's such a descriptive icon.

I'll shortly be going back to gnome (as soon as 2.12 finishes compiling), and this will most likely be the GDM theme I choose to use.

And to comment on the above posts: Communism and Socialism are excellent ideologies. Unfortunately, they have a tendancy to be ruled by dictators. A dictatorship puts too much power into too few people, the result, viscious corruption. The communist and socialist ideals need to be ruled "by the people, for the people."

Communism is no better or worse than Democracy...they're just different. Although, communism is a social ideal and Democracy a state ideal. Tell me one country which has faithfully followed the idealogical rules of communism or democracy...none. But this is because of those countries leaders.

Again, great theme :)

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Communist Victory

GDM Theme

1.1 Bugfix - inserted password prompt text and removed extraneous text from username prompt, 4/3/07 (or 3/4/07 if you're of the American persuasion). Many thanks to miqster for the patch.

HATE TO YOU

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Well comunism is a nice utopian idea, but just like the church (another good idea) is ruined by man

FREEDOM!!!

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Well maybe they were free from rusia but still the comunists ruled... They dont call them selfs that but it's the same... I know 'cause I'm from one of those ex-comunist country Anyway I say it's a nice gdm theme

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Ha ha ha :) www.gnome-fuckers.org www.gnome-politics.org www.gnome-morons.org www.gnome-cunts.org It's your place

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cocksuckers

shut up, fucking busters!!! stop trying to cause moral damage to MY country!! haha!! comunism!! you're all punky-ass bitches!! I promise, if I see you smwhere i kick your muthufucking ass!!!

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Old joke but good joke, and... international ;-) Ok, let's finish discussion, but I encourage you to read more about history, in different sources. It is very interesting and you will see that many things are not such simple as they may look at the beginning.

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Nice theme!

Sad to see some people are still brainwashed though.

Re: Nice theme!

You mean brainwashed into capitalism? If so, I agree with you.

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Nice GDM

I like it

Well maybe they were free from rusia but still the comunists ruled... They dont call them selfs that but it's the same... I know 'cause I'm from one of those ex-comunist country

Anyway I say it's a nice gdm theme

Ha ha ha :)
www.gnome-fuckers.org
www.gnome-politics.org
www.gnome-morons.org
www.gnome-cunts.org
It's your place

shut up, fucking busters!!!
stop trying to cause moral damage to MY country!! haha!! comunism!!
you're all punky-ass bitches!!
I promise, if I see you smwhere i kick your muthufucking ass!!!

Old joke but good joke, and... international ;-)
Ok, let's finish discussion, but I encourage you to read more about history, in different sources. It is very interesting and you will see that many things are not such simple as they may look at the beginning.