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    Fraud in Putin’s election is visible in official figures.

    MAY 25, 2012 2:37PM

    By snowball999


    Topics: elections, russia, fraud, statistic, voters, politics, putin, ussr, churov, medvedev, demographic, eligible voters, election results, fake, 2012, protests, demonstration, occupy

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    This just in: breathing is still allowed in central Moscow.

    MAY 17, 2012 11:35PM

    By snowball999


    Topics: perestroika, ussr, revolution, occupy, protest, demonstration, police, arrest, moscow, russia, inauguration, politics, elections, putin

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    CNN loves Putin and not the protestors.

    MAY 7, 2012 12:34PM

    By snowball999


    Topics: inauguration, media, cnn, ussr, cold war, illegitimate, russian spring, protest, demonstration, putin, election fraud, elections, election, politics, russia

    • 1 Ratings
    • 143 Views
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    I Love Ozzie Guillen

    APRIL 16, 2012 3:55PM

    By Laura Wilkerson


    Topics: ozzie guillen, philosophy, baseball, elian gonzalez, richard nixon, china, ussr, luis posada carriles, jeffrey loria, barack obama, wyle e coyote, assassination attempts, men's journal, time magazine, pittsburg pirates, world series, chicago white sox, venezuela, hugo chavez, john birch society, us constitution, free speech, business, corporations, individuals, ployment, e, work, politics, fulgencio baptista, nba dress code, kentucky derby, sports, bay of pigs, cubans, cuba, fidel castro, miami marlins

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    A New Nuclear Threat - Russia's Iskander Missile

    MARCH 17, 2012 9:58AM

    By AssociationOfTruth


    Topics: news, technology, nuclear, war, russia, wikileaks, stratfor, emails, missile, defense systems, cold war, united states, ussr, us, iskander

    • 1 Ratings
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    Everything You Believe Is Wrong

    JULY 21, 2011 9:28PM

    By Daniel Rigney


    Topics: things you're not supposed to know, jesus+walmart, disinformation, weird al yancovic, michele bachmann joke, kgb, crony capitalism, gangster capitalism, epistemological cost, collapse of the soviet union, foreign policy, august coup, putin, yeltsin, gorbachev, perestroika, glasnost, ussr, sex, god, everything you think you know is wrong, everything you know is wrong, everything you believe is wrong, danagram, daniel rigney, delusion removal, news, open+call, politics, health, comedy

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    Feelings For My Country

    JULY 4, 2011 11:11AM

    By Secret Gardens


    Topics: "the moment i felt most american", ussr, usa, anthem, chess, 4th of july

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    Spring Break in Moscow: Part Two

    MAY 8, 2011 2:58PM

    By Kristie McEwan


    Topics: widows, red scare, leningrad, hermitage, soviets, ussr

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    Spring Break in Moscow

    MAY 8, 2011 1:16AM

    By Kristie McEwan


    Topics: communists, spring break, ussr, solzhenitsyn

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    VLADRUSHKA: Every Story Online (NSFW)

    DECEMBER 17, 2010 2:23AM

    By John L. Roberson


    Topics: comics, john linton roberson, nsfw, communism, ussr, soviet union, russia, satire, sex, erotica, vladrushka

    • 27 Ratings
    • 1490 Views
    • 39 Comments
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    One Night Hand Stand

    OCTOBER 22, 2010 4:22PM

    By littlewillie


    Topics: janis ian, vault like no one is watching, erectile handspring, aerial dismount, pommel that horse, suck, lick, tuck, straddle, new orleans saints, mormons, ukrainian girls really knock me out, ussr, gymnastics, sports, comedy, humor

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    Stalin and Hitler had another option in 1943

    SEPTEMBER 23, 2010 1:12AM

    By Ludwik Kowalski


    Topics: stalin, hitler, germany, ussr, wwii

    • 1 Ratings
    • 323 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Clash of Civilization Progressing as Planned

    SEPTEMBER 6, 2010 11:46PM

    By Robert King


    Topics: world war three, afghanistan, ussr, muhajedeen, al-qaeda, anglo-american, mi6, osama bin laden, clash of civilization

    • 0 Ratings
    • 295 Views
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    Militias and Despotism: Who is fooling whom?

    JULY 28, 2010 10:35PM

    By Ilya Shambat


    Topics: ussr, survivalists, despotism, idiocy, guns, militias

    • 0 Ratings
    • 211 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Amateurs Run Amok (but you can catch them; they are slow)

    JULY 16, 2010 3:11PM

    By Mark Budman


    Topics: terrorists, incompetent, inept, russianspy, russian spy, russianspies, amateurs, amateur, petraeuspassesout, petraeus passes out, petraeus, ussr, taser, russian spies, red room, reality tv - tv genre, gru, america, al qaida, al qaeda

    • 8 Ratings
    • 575 Views
    • 18 Comments
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    Censorship & Helen Thomas: The Other Side of Reporting

    JUNE 7, 2010 10:27PM

    By Sarah_in_USA


    Topics: freedom of speech, freedom of opinion, freedom of press, mccarthysm, ussr, censorship, lebanon, christians, jews, israel, palestine, middle east, helen thomas

    • 1 Ratings
    • 222 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    An Indo-American in Silicon Valley - Part 6

    MARCH 13, 2010 6:37PM

    By ahnisa


    Topics: israel, egypt, india bengal america silicon valley immigrant experience, belief/religion, family, politics, technology, communism, imperialism, vietnam, visa, iran, afghanistan, ussr

    • 4 Ratings
    • 1460 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    "Dead Hand" System Still Operational

    DECEMBER 10, 2009 3:37PM

    By rwnutjob


    Topics: perimeter, dead hand, russia, ussr, cccp, open call

    • 8 Ratings
    • 840 Views
    • 12 Comments
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    Afghanistan, According to Script

    DECEMBER 1, 2009 10:05AM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: world's policeman, global policeman, policeman, peace keeping, united nations, consensus, jokes, story understanding, ai, artificial intelligence, roger schank, script theory, scripts, russian, ussr, lesson, cold war, wait it out, bankruptcy, bankrupt, go broke, broke, overspend, outspend, war, afghanistan, financial, finance, economics, economy, money, politics

    • 3 Ratings
    • 568 Views
    • 7 Comments
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    History in the Making - a retrospective

    NOVEMBER 12, 2009 10:23PM

    By FusunA


    Topics: revolution, military coup, 1960, adnan menderes, turkey, us, cold war, ussr

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