U.S. Senator Thinks Russia Is Under Communist Rule
Senator Chuck Grassley (Iowa-R) applauded U.S. ambassador Susan Rice’s strong statement about “Soviet Russia” and “Red China” Saturday afternoon. Only Rice didn’t say anything about “Soviet Russia” and “Red China.”
Since Russia hasn’t been Communist since 1991, we’ve recapped about 20 years of history for Grassley to catch him up on what he’s missed.
The Fall of the Berlin Wall.
Boris Yeltsin on top of the tanks in Red Square in 1991.
Vadimir Putin elected as Russia’s second President.
Dmitry Medvedev elected Russia’s third President.
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dwaynep a year agoI think he was just referencing the revolution’s of 1989 ie China’s Tiananmen Square and the fall of communism across eastern Europe.. China squashed those protests and now, with Russia, vetoes UN Resolutions to do something about Syria attempting to crush their own revolution.
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dwaynep a year ago
@mattb17 you are saying he should have tweeted a paragraph? Haha. Yeah right. His point was clearly made with what he tweeted. It wasn’t an error. China & Russia blocked the UN resolution on Syria with vetoes.. Therefore they support the countries actions which is where u get Red China & Soviet Russia
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mattb17 a year ago@dwaynep No that’s not it. Stop trying to justify a clear error. Using Soviet Russia and Red China together is reflective of a person who still thinks of both nations in a Cold War context. Now if the Senator had said something like “I applaud the position of the ambassador regarding Russia’s position..blah, blah…who appear to be acting more in a manner akin to their predecessor the Soviet Union” then I’d given it to him. But he didn’t This quote by a Senator who clearly perceives the world in a context that hasn’t existed for over 20 years. If he was trying to make a insult towards the Russians, he did it in a very very odd way.
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- Baiciyu thinks U.S. Senator Thinks Russia Is Under C... is SMH
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Rare Parrot a year agoGrassley, like most conservatives, hasn’t reassessed the world since Reagan was in office. I say this not as snark, but rather as an honest assessment of why the GOP is so fucked up these days.
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Baiciyu a year agoYou forgot that Vladimir Putin is unpopularly attempting to run for a third presidential term causing mass protests to this very day. Medvedev was Putin’s protege and was practically assured the win. While he was “president,” Putin was the Prime Minister and Medvedev was essentially Putin’s puppet. China is a strange combination of capitalism and communism and certainly cannot be called democratic. The wall came down in Russia and China has opened up relations with the West but relations with both are tense and unrest among their people about the way each country is governed is plainly evident. It would be inappropriate for Ambassador Rice to refer to them as Soviet Russia and Red China. The situation in both countries is far too complicated for anyone to place them in a tidy category.
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Andrew Kaczynski a year ago
@dwaynep I totally understood the point. You are the one who clearly doesn’t understand the parody.
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Andrew Kaczynski a year ago
@dwaynep Circumventing the constitution doesn’t make someone a communist. Communism is an economic and political system. What you are referring to is a dictatorship.
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