While I'm not here to defend NATO, let's not sugar coat it using revisionist history. It's important to include that these countries were under the evil tyranny of Soviet communism, post WWII. NATO or not, when it comes to daily life the people of these nations absolutely preferred the freedom provided by western democracies over the brutal iron fist of Stalinist soviets.
The Berlin wall was a symbolic representation of this oppression: it wasn't built to keep people out, but to cage them in. And if they tried to leave, shoot them.
Notice that not once have I referred to it as Russia. These were communist soviets. I remember it well.
We had an election to elect Trump and save the republic from the precipice. The founding documents - and Constitution - still exist, and have power. Although the press is "fake news" - it still exists, and can be countered with alternative voices. And on and on.
Czarist Russia was toppled by a violent revolution, and millions of Russians - generations of Russians - were slaughtered in-country by their own government, and even when alive lived under tyranny and oppression, with no voice and no way to appeal or counter the brutality.
Yes the threat is real, and this could be the outcome if unchecked. But that DID happen to the Russian people - 70+ years under it. Out of respect for them - there is no comparison.
While I'm not here to defend NATO, let's not sugar coat it using revisionist history. It's important to include that these countries were under the evil tyranny of Soviet communism, post WWII. NATO or not, when it comes to daily life the people of these nations absolutely preferred the freedom provided by western democracies over the brutal iron fist of Stalinist soviets.
The Berlin wall was a symbolic representation of this oppression: it wasn't built to keep people out, but to cage them in. And if they tried to leave, shoot them.
Notice that not once have I referred to it as Russia. These were communist soviets. I remember it well.
Americans in the US is close to being in same situation as Russians in USSR
That may be. But there are clear distinctions.
We had an election to elect Trump and save the republic from the precipice. The founding documents - and Constitution - still exist, and have power. Although the press is "fake news" - it still exists, and can be countered with alternative voices. And on and on.
Czarist Russia was toppled by a violent revolution, and millions of Russians - generations of Russians - were slaughtered in-country by their own government, and even when alive lived under tyranny and oppression, with no voice and no way to appeal or counter the brutality.
Yes the threat is real, and this could be the outcome if unchecked. But that DID happen to the Russian people - 70+ years under it. Out of respect for them - there is no comparison.
Read the Gulag Archipelago: https://www.solzhenitsyncenter.org/his-writings/large-work-and-novels/the-gulag-archipelago
but it wasnt really “their own government”
it was jews
63,000,000 abortions since RvW