Category Archives: USSR

JEŠTĚD MOUNTAIN NEAR LIBEREC


Very impressive sight from cousin Pavel’s front porch… That’s a comms tower/restaurant/hotel combo on top, with ski slopes below.  They built the tower during the socialist era at significant cost, but it’s all analog.  They never converted it to digital, … Continue reading

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KOOKY NOSTALGIA


Just for “fun,” I added up all the medals that the USSR would have won as of this moment (2103 GMT), and I came up with 112. Just goes to show that I, too, have way too much time on … Continue reading

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YOUR RETIREMENT MONEY REDISTRIBUTED (RERUN)


I thought I’d rerun this rant from November 2011. I have been thinking about a couple of progressive concepts that the Obama regime is likely to employ as a temporary way to feed its spending addiction.  (I say “temporary” because … Continue reading

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THE DAY THAT MUST LIVE IN INFAMY


Funny how nothing changes from one April 22nd to another… Here’s a rerun of last year’s “Earth Day” post. April 22nd is the apparent birthday of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the one true evil genius of the 20th Century.  Josef Stalin, … Continue reading

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OBAMA OUTDOES CHAVEZ


Back in March 2011, Venezuelan thug leader Hugo Chavez was given the press freedom award by the Argentine University of la Plata.  He was given this award because he had spent ten years savaging the independent Venezuelan media to ensure … Continue reading

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LENIN AS HITLER’S PROFESSOR


The essential identity of Soviet and Nazi ideologies and methods still seems poorly understood.  Part of the reason, I suspect, is the meaningless distinction between totalitarian “right” and “left,” initially invented by the Moscow-ruled Comintern in the 1920s.  Totalitarians of … Continue reading

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YOUR RETIREMENT MONEY REDISTRIBUTED


I have been thinking about a couple of progressive concepts that the Obama regime is likely to employ as a temporary way to feed its spending addiction.  (I say “temporary” because the Obama regime, like other “progressive” regimes, has no … Continue reading

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VLADIMIR PUTIN, SAINT


The Czech news site Tyden reports that a new sect was discovered in Russia that worships Vladimir Putin as the incarnation of Saint Paul.  The worshipers of St. Putin are concentrated in the town of Bolshaya Yelnya near Novgorod.  Matriarch … Continue reading

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A PATHOLOGICAL LIAR DEMANDS TRUTH


Bill Clinton, who was impeached by the U. S. Senate for lying to a federal grand jury and who once argued about what the meaning of “is” is, had a great idea.  (No, not about sex this time.)  He opined … Continue reading

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THE DAY THAT MUST LIVE IN INFAMY


April 22nd is the apparent birthday of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the one true evil genius of the 20th Century.  Josef Stalin, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Mao Ze Dong, Ho Chi Minh, Pot Pot, Fidel Castro, Robert Mugabe and many others … Continue reading

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