Happy Russia Day...

[The Vagabond]

Originally posted by Serb
This is the end of the beginning (c.) HOI-2.

We will, we will bury you!

And now we will bury you!

[Serb]

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Serb


Damn right! You should be scared.
The Russians are comming!

No problem at all...

[Dinner]

The sad thing is Russia spent 75 years hating the Tsar but now they look back and realize the Tsar's symbols were great symbols for Russia. They're now busy trying to pretending as if 1917 to 1991 didn't happen.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Serb
We will, we will bury you!
Come on!!!
We will, we will bury you!
We will, we will bury you (we’re gonna bury, we’re gonna bury ya baby!)
We will, we will bury you (we’re gonna bury, we gonna bury, we gonna bury ya)
We will, we will bury you (we’re gonna bury, we’re gonna buryya baby!)

Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go,

(re-mix of Queen)

The sad thing is despite the shoe banging the USSR is the one who got buried.

[Cort Haus]

:nostrovia:

[Japher]

I'm envious of the hammer and sickle logo

America needs a cool logo like that. Not to say I don't like the stars and stripes, but I would suggest adding a battle like flag that would have a gun on it or something.

[Cort Haus]

Strangely, the hammer and sickle was a symbol of expediancy rather than core ideology - as I understand it. It should have be the proletariat (represented by the hammer) who were in the position to seize and control the means of production, rather than the peasantry (sickle). The latter were petit-bourgoise with class interests not fully in line with the workers. The symbolic inclusion of the peasantry could therefore be seen as a sign of weakness of the proletarian position.

Marx had maintained that the best base for revolutionary socialism was advanced industrial capitalism, not semi-rural feudalism. The Bolsheviks did not have the fully-industrialised society that Marx envisaged would be necessary, which was always going to make things difficult - as if the war against the revoution from outside was not enough trouble for the fledging USSR.

[Serb]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison


No problem at all...

It's a Teddy bear. Not Russian.

[Provost Harrison]

A big mushroom cloud on it? I am sure that would aid your diplomatic relations with Japan no end!

[Serb]

Originally posted by Oerdin
The sad thing is Russia spent 75 years hating the Tsar but now they look back and realize the Tsar's symbols were great symbols for Russia. They're now busy trying to pretending as if 1917 to 1991 didn't happen.

I am Russian and I don't pretend that 1917-1991 didn't happen.

[Serb]

Originally posted by Oerdin


The sad thing is despite the shoe banging the USSR is the one who got buried.

It's not the end of the day.

I am looking forward to another round

[Serb]

Originally posted by Cort Haus
:nostrovia:

: I'm out of beer:
but thanks anyway!

[Asher]

You make really ****ty commercial airplanes.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Cort Haus
Strangely, the hammer and sickle was a symbol of expediancy rather than core ideology - as I understand it. It should have be the proletariat (represented by the hammer) who were in the position to seize and control the means of production, rather than the peasantry (sickle). The latter were petit-bourgoise with class interests not fully in line with the workers. The symbolic inclusion of the peasantry could therefore be seen as a sign of weakness of the proletarian position.

The Bolshevik position from shortly after taking power was that the poor peasants were natural allies of the proletariat, and only the rich and middle peasants were class enemies. Their position wrt to the rural areas evolved over time. For a good discussion, I would refer you to Robert Conquest's history of the great famine, in which he also discusses the evolving usage of the word "kulak".