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[ PRIVACY Forum ] The Communist sympathizers pounce on my previous
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Thu Feb 17 14:47:56 2011
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 11:29:21 -0800
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The Communist sympathizers pounce on my previous posting!
Egads! I appear to have upset some of the Communist sympathizers
out there, with my obviously faux quote:
"You know Comrades, if only Stalin could have had one of those FBIs
instead of the incompetent KGB, we might have been able to save the
great Communist State! Now the Capitalists are having all the fun!"
-- Overheard at Russian old folks home
Not that they object to the quote per se, but they are upset that
I designated KGB as Stalin's Secret Police.
In fact, they are correct -- The KGB was formed post-Stalin. During
the key periods of the Stalin era the roughly equivalent organization
was the even more dreaded MVD.
I plead guilty to dramatic license in that quote. KGB is really well
known, and the term MVD much less recognized these days. So I
foolishly used the former rather than the latter, even though I knew
it was historically inaccurate.
Everyone feel better now? Good. Get back to work.
Increase production for the Homeland!
--Lauren--
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