yes. this one sentence is enough. I never said that just Russians in Latvia are persecuted. so try think if it is common that in the 21st century somebody can not vote in country where he lives only because he has another nationality and do not misrepresent what I said.
That's Putin's reasoning though. He says ethnic Russians are being persecuted, therefore neighboring country that just so happens to have been a former USSR area needs to be "checked" to "protect Russian interests". Nothing about the other groups. And let's face it, Russia isn't exactly endearing to minorities themselves (having the highest number of neo-nazis in Europe, if not the world, as an example, which is a strange bit of irony).
no, the Russians liberated these countries.
Only if you have a highly perverse definition of "liberated". Also, I noticed you didn't quote the links I posted showing Russian brutality to the countries they conquered. Sorry, but ignoring historical facts like those only hurt your position.
in all eastern countries were democratic elections after WWII. and as USSR had effect in these countries such USA had effect in west europe. by the way, it was your president who made deal with Stalin about dividing of europe...
2 parts to this section.
1. If by "democratically" you mean puppet governments that did whatever Stalin told them to do, else they too would be shipped off to the gulags. The US and UK did not take those other countries sovereignty and helped them rebuild. The economic booms and rebuilding in Western Europe (Germany included) following WWII were in large part thanks to the US, but the US did not install puppet governments and instead restored power to the rightful governments.
and when you can go so far back in history (about gulags for example), you the holy americans abalienate land from native Indians and made gulags for them. during WWII were citizens of USA with Japan nationality busted in camps.
Yeah, we took land from the Native Americans. Thank you for pointing out something that out dates the current discussion, and that I'm not going to defend. As I did not take it from them, nor has any living American. So won't I apologize for something like that either, as not even my family participated in it, not coming here until after the Civil War.
And yes, there were internment camps where Japanese civilians were imprisoned during WWII, and I won't defend such actions by the US government, but to compare them to gulags which were nearly on par with the death camps Hitler had? And the people in the camps in the US were released after the war. For those in the gulags, they got a ton more company after the war when Stalin picked up where he had left in sending thousands of military officers, civilians, and people who MIGHT be able to have a CHANCE at POSSIBLY challenging Stalin for power. Not to mention the German POWs. So trying to deflect from my point by saying "Well, the US had camps!" is stupid and like comparing a rug burn to 3rd degree burns over half the body that could easily end in death.
how could you say that USSR after WWII subjugated eastern europe and here you said such a bullshit. USA destroyed Yugoslavia, USA destroyed Iraq (without any reason, Bush said lies). and new goverment of Iraq was installed by USA. so this you call that you turn country back to their people? in Iraq is anarchy, made by USA.
*sigh* You just don't get it do you?
1. I can easily say the USSR subjugated Eastern Europe since that is what they did.
2. You mean the same Yugoslavia that was attacking and creating war in their region? And it was NATO intervention, not solely US.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo_War ... .931999.293. Not really going to go too much into this, but it was proven that Iraq at least had the capabilities to create and use chemical weapons, as shown when he had his forces use it on Kurdish villages, killing thousands. And Bush was given the information by his intelligence agency, so he kind of had to believe them.
4. The new democratic government, as many problems that it has, was elected by the civilians of Iraq, often with US troops protecting the voting stations to help ensure the safety of would-be voters.
5. Finally, everyone wanted the US out of there. Europeans, Americans, Iraqis, etc. Me? I knew it would descend into chaos (don't really feel like digging through thousands of posts over the course of several years to find it), but not only Obama, but pretty much everyone wanted us out. So we pull out and shit hits the fan. And not our fault that the supposed Iraqi army turned tail and fled without much fighting.
if it were so bad in the USSR as you wrote, how can Ukraine still hold its language and culture? nobody takes of them this, so about what you are talking?
Did you not read what I posted in the link? That made it pretty clear the problems Ukraine was having while being subjugated by the USSR.
and who invated Latvia?
I know English is not your first language, but "threatening to invade" means that Russia is showing signs in a multitude of ways that they may invade the Baltic countries. Like Putin's little speech about "protecting ethnic Russians" as a guise for bringing former Soviet countries back under Russia's rule, since they otherwise want nothing more to do with Russia. Very Machiavellian of him.
Typical American answer...
