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POPSAn Underground City Beneath Beijing, Why? Beijing's Underground Hideout With Khrushchev and the Soviets breathing down his country's metaphorical neck, Chairman Mao ordered the construction of a vast underground city to serve as a shelter during an invasion, air raid or nuclear war. This was no minor undertaking. In the late 1960s, the population of Beijing reached 7.5 million residents . In short order, the residents of the capital city were put to work excavating their enormous air raid shelter. Most of the digging was done by hand, and the work was shared by adults and schoolchildren alike. This communal venture fit nicely into Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution -- a massive campaign to support the communist movement and thwart counterrevolutionary ideas. From 1969 to 1979, the people of Beijing focused their attention underground. Watch Reuters video at website: Building the $500 million Beijing Olympic Stadium
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POPSFor the Next Time You Wonder What Good Space Exploration Does Down Here... The swimmers and coaches attribute 5 gold medals (so far), most won with world-record times, to the Speedo Lazer suit. NASA's expertise in engineering friction-reducing materials as coatings on rockets and other spacecraft to reduce drag as they travel through the atmosphere. Many people are unaware of the fact that in addition to sending men and machines into space, NASA also functions as a technology broker to private industry (they are forbidden by law from profiting from research they sponsor). The development of integrated circuits was spurred by the fact that US rockets were much less powerful than the USSR's, so we had to reduce weight by designing lighter components. Without NASA, computers and other microprocessor-driven machines would be 20 or more years behind where they are now.
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POPSCIA FactBook: Brief History Of Georgia Progress on market reforms and democratization has been made in the years since independence, but this progress has been complicated by two ethnic conflicts in the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. These two territories remain outside the control of the central government and are ruled by de facto, unrecognized governments, supported by Russia. Russian-led peacekeeping operations continue in both regions.
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POPSAlexander Solzhenitsyn is Dead He was the greatest witness against the horrors of Stalinism and the system of gulags and slave labor camps in the USSR. Not long after moving to the US, he critiqued the materialism of the west. In the end, he seemed to be something of Tolstoyan theocrat. His book "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" had a big impact on me in my youth. His interview with William F. Buckley on the old Firing Line series, if you can find it, is not to be missed.
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POPSStalin's lost Railway??? When you live in Africa it dosn't look lost, it looks normal somehow, with this difference that in Africa they still try to use it...and sometimes actually do....!
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POPSB Hussein Obama's Communist Roots Most of this article comes from Obama's own book. Can any loyal American , once they know the truth about Obama's background, believe he can be trusted to be President?
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POPS One Million... And Growing... Cat Stevens aka Yusuf Islam and many more like him. Soon it will be me, my friends and family and just about everybody that has contact to a very critical opposition to this type of " Warfare ". We are already considered " Un Patriotic " and that listing will be next. Coming to America, the land of the Free. Only the GULAGS in the old Soviet Union had more.
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POPSLituania: The Jewish story is forgotten Only the story of the Soviet occupation is remembered, yet there wer THREE TIMES more deaths during the Nazi occupation. Vilnius, capital of Lithuania and once known as the Jerusalem of the North, hardly remembers its Jewish dead.
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POPSAre photographers really a threat? Given that real terrorists, and even wannabe terrorists, don't seem to photograph anything, why is it such pervasive conventional wisdom that terrorists photograph their targets? Why are our fears so great that we have no choice but to be suspicious of any photographer? Because it's a movie-plot threat. This is worth fighting. Search "photographer rights" on Google and download one of the several wallet documents that can help you if you get harassed; I found one for the UK, US, and Australia. Don't cede your right to photograph in public. Don't propagate the terrorist photographer story. Remind them that prohibiting photography was something we used to ridicule about the USSR. Eventually sanity will be restored, but it may take a while.
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POPSYOU CAN'T APPEASE EVERYBODY "If Obama plans to drop nukes on Ahmadinejad prior to their little chat-fest, I'm all for it. But I don't think that's what liberals have in mind." :)
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POPSUSSR poster One of my favorite site , every time I went back I see something from the same poster. Check it out.
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POPSMikhail Gorbachev as a Christian Several newspapers have reported that Mikhail Gorbachev, the last president of the USSR, is a Christian. What is surprising, however, is not so much the reports themselves as the source: the reports have come from Italy. It will be interesting to see if there are any follow-ups in the media, saying something about how Gorbachev practises his Christian faith back home in Russia. Does he have a parish and a parish priest? Where are they, and what do they have to say?
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POPSNixon's "Mad Man" strategy to scare Soviet Union On the morning of October 27, 1969, a squadron of 18 B-52s — massive bombers with eight turbo engines and 185-foot wingspans — began racing from the western US toward the eastern border of the Soviet Union. The pilots flew for 18 hours without rest, hurtling toward their targets at more than 500 miles per hour. Each plane was loaded with nuclear weapons hundreds of times more powerful than the ones that had obliterated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It is a good thing neoconservatives like Norman Podhoretz were not running the show in the USSR when Nixon was pulling an Ahmadinejad. Via Marginal Revolutions
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POPS"Zionism is Bankrupt" Richist Zionist from USSR "Lev Avnerovich Leviev (born in Tashkent, Soviet Union) is a Chabad Orthodox Bukharian Jewish billionaire who lives in London. Leviev is ranked 210th among the world’s wealthiest people, with an estimated personal net worth of $6.5 billion, although his associates put the figure closer to $8 billion. Lev Leviev was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan in 1956. His parents, Avner and Chana Leviev, were prominent members of the Bukharian Jewish community. In 1971, when he was fifteen, his family immigrated from Uzbekistan to Israel. Shortly afterwards, Leviev began to work as an apprentice in a diamond polishing plant, learning the 11 steps of the diamond cutting process. After serving in the IDF, he established his own diamond polishing plant. ...Wikipedia. Blood diamonds? No evidence of any persecution in USSR. Myth too?
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POPSTHE REAL DO-GOODERS VERSUS THE PSEUDO DO-GOODERS Their impassioned desires to make the ENTIRE world look the way THEY want it is a utopian dream - FOR A NARCISSIST! And they don't care if their utopia is just an unrealistic dream. Or, if it's been proven to be a nightmare in other nations, in other centuries. WHY!? Because: For the leftist, it's more about looking like their helping, than really helping.
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POPSWhat is wrong with you people? Another illegal war, because of a boogie man that may not exist. Think about this for just a minute, using this logic, we would have attacked the USSR... "Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference. Government cannot create a world without risks, nor would we really wish to live in such a fictional place. Only a totalitarian society would even claim absolute safety as a worthy ideal, because it would require total state control over its citizens’ lives. Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons." Ron Paul
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POPSNew geophysical weapon might lead to the global catastrophe
All the works in the field became secret too. However, the works continued anyway, despite the signed document. It was simply conducted under the disguise of the scientific research or the development of the double-purpose technology. The point and the purpose of those developments were rather vague and even mysterious. A lot of specialists and scientists believe that a special American program HAARP is one of those developments. ... There is a suspicion that the unusual natural disasters and man-caused catastrophes of the year 2002, the unexplainable indifference of several nations on the post-Soviet territory might be linked to USA’s tests of geophysical weapons of low capacities. However, neither American politicians and scientists, nor the world community know, if it is going to be possible to stop the work of the geophysical weapon, if it is used at its full capacity. ... Another high power transmitter facility, a more powerful one, is going to be put into operation in Greenl
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POPSPravda: USS Liberty, USSR Nuclear Sub and 9/11 "The Soviet submarine K-172 under the command of Nikolay Shashkov armed with missiles and nuclear warheads was at the very same moment in the Bay of Sidre. The submarine received instructions to surface and deliver a blow against the Israeli coast if the Americans landed troops on Syrian shores. The submarine had eight nuclear missiles on board. However, as we know the Israeli coast means the whole sate of Israel stretched along the sea. Israel would have been completely destroyed if such blows were delivered by the Soviet submarine." "I wrote about Nikolay Shashkov; the publication was called “The Man Who Was to Destroy Israel.” The publication produced a strong response from society. I received inquiries from the Israeli Embassy, and many journalists wanted just to see the man who was to liquidate the Israeli state."
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