Captain! wrote:
> "Bruce Mallory" <bm@mallory.org> wrote in message
> news:JLB_e.15876$SG3.9630@trnddc07...
> >
> > "Former King of Pangea" <BigShot@TheWholeThing.org> wrote in message
> > news:ofB_e.37215$TA2.13059@fe09.lga...
> >> The SU's idea was to kill all the people before they could become
> >> criminals. If you are successful, there will be no crime.
> >>
> >> "Pizzol Fanfaroni" <pizzol@fanfaroni.org> wrote in message
> >> news:SYA_e.7112$WT3.6385@trnddc03...
> >>> x-no-archive: yes
> >>>
> >>> Bruce Mallory wrote:
> >>>> "TXZZ" <superoutland@aol.com> wrote in message
> >>>> news:1127906633.713717.201590@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> >>>>
> >>>>>give me your opinion please soviet russia couldnt have lasted so long
> >>>>>unless maybe communism wasnt as bad as people have been brainwashed to
> >>>>>believe
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I agree ignorant Americans know nothing about Communism or about
> >>>> anything, except sports and the love affairs of their movie and rock
> >>>> stars. Almost nobody in the US can define or describe Communism, even
> >>>> though it has so much in common with the present American Republicrat
> >>>> (also known as Demopublican) dictatorship. Same huge army of government
> >>>> bureaucrats. Same preoccupation with the COMMUNIty interest being more
> >>>> important than that of The Individual. Same strive to take over the
> >>>> world. Same believe in their system being the best in the universe.
> >>>> Same push for an uncontested national religion (theirs was the
> >>>> Atheism).
> >>>>
> >>>> The advantages of the US Republicratism: higher standard of living for
> >>>> most of their people; more freedom to travel the world, more
> >>>> opportunities to choose one's business or occupation.
> >>>>
> >>>> The advantages of the "Advanced Socialism" of the USSR: much less
> >>>> crime,
> >>>
> >>> On whose part? If killing, enclosing in gulags and starving millions was
> >>> "less crime"
> >>> according to your standards, than you're right: There was a lot of "less
> >>> crime" in the USSR.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> less people encaged in their prisons
> >>>
> >>> Buahahaha. Seee above.
> >>>
> >>>> (I have in mind the 1970's and 80's, not the Stalinist years), overall
> >>>> direction toward less and less restrictive society (the opposite of the
> >>>> direction the US society is currently moving toward),
> >>>
> >>> It is not the direction, but the point you are moving toward, which
> >>> counts.
> >>> What was "more restrictive" from the American point of view.
> >>> Was "less restrictive" from the Soviet point of view.
> >>>
> >>>> employment security, free higher education and medical care.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Buahahaha. Free "medical" care. Every American moron I meet
> >>> yearns for this. They will feel how it tastes once they get it
> >>> and they will have to wait in lines with all other, quite
> >>> healthy, amateurs of free "care".
> >>>
> >>> I bet, amongst those who want to get "free" medical care
> >>> are people who are in fact healthy but want to pretend
> >>> they are sick, being very attracted
> >>> by the magical word "free".
> >>> They will see how "free" it is once they get it.
> >>> They will see how more "free" medical care will
> >>> get those who will have enough money to travel abroad
> >>> (maybe to Soviet Russia?) or to bribe the doctors.
> >>> Not that there would be a lot of such people.
> >>> After all, somebody would have to pay hefty taxes
> >>> to finance this "free" medical care.
> >>>
> >>> Those greedy morons have enough money to travel to Mexico
> >>> or Spain for vacation, but don't have money to buy Aspirine
> >>> for themselves and want it "free".
> >>> Their stories about "excellent free medical care"
> >>> abroad are based on their experiences in Spain
> >>> or other countries where they were treated during vacation
> >>> for some trivial conditions.
> >>> They seem not to comprehend that somebody
> >>> abused the system, to treat them and to
> >>> play a good hospitable Samaritan, as they
> >>> were uneligible to get the free treatment, in the first place
> >>> and were given a preferential treatment because of their
> >>> American status.
> >>> What they should perceive as a sign of favoritism and abuse they
> >>> perceived as a sign of superiority because they got
> >>> for "free" something for which somebody else paid and
> >>> was eligible.
> >>>
> >>> Or, maybe they simply were covered abroad by their American insurance
> >>> or credit card and confused the things totally?
> >>> With their almost _total_ ignorance of the outside word,
> >>> foreing languages, political systems, customs and regulations
> >>> all kinds of misunderstandings are possible.
> >>>
> >>> What I've noticed is that all the leftist of the World
> >>> are ready to tell all possible and impossible lies
> >>> and fantasies, trying to convince everybody to their system.
> >>>
> >>> It would be interesting to see, how they would feel
> >>> if foreigners were treated for free in an American
> >>> "free" health care system, paid by American taxpayers.
> >>>
> >
> > All the comments of my humble opinion show how totally, badly, hopelessly
> > ignorant my fellow yankees are. Some are talking in the present tense, as
> > if the Soviet Union still existed today. Others are clearly equating the
> > Stalinist period with the entire history of the USSR. Still others claim
> > that I have never been in the Soviet Union, while in reality they have
> > never stepped their foot on its ground, never read any book on the
> > subject, never studied that country or its political system in any at
> > least a tiny-bit meaningful, analytical way.
> >
> > As to myself, I was a visiting professor at the Moscow State Lomonosov
> > University in 1987/88. My own wife was born and raised in one of the
> > former Soviet republics, and my closest friend and neighbor of the past 11
> > years is a former refugee from the USSR, currently a distinguished
> > professor at one of the finest American universities. Don't tell me I know
> > nothing about the USSR. I know pretty much everything from the first-hand
> > sources, as well as from my own experience. I stand behind every word I
> > wrote.
> >
> > In addition to the above, I am not leftist of any kind. I am a staunch,
> > life-long conservative libertarian and I despise the current socialist
> > administration, which has increased the size of the federal government to
> > never heard before monstrous levels of senseless and useless bureaucracy.
> > Which has adopted a leftist policy of spending enormous amounts of money
> > it doesn't have. Of allowing untamed illegal immigration. Of increasing
> > the power of the socialist federal government, while decreasing powers of
> > states. Of adopting a state-sponsored religion and promoting it in
> > violation of the Constitution. Of trying to impose our form of government,
> > by means of military intervention and shameless destruction, onto other
> > nations of the world. Of lying to The People in the very worst tradition
> > of Communism. Etc etc. etc.
> >
> > Bruce M.
> >
>
> mr. M
>
> although your credentials are indeed impressive you spent the whole post
> telling us of them and forgot to make your point.

I think, in fact, that was precisely his point.