First Olympic Fatality in 46 years

[Serb]

Stalin was never a foreigner nor in the Russian Empire or USSR.

Go read a real history book. Georgia was an independent nation when it was attacked by the USSR in 1921 and forcibly added to the Soviet Union. Stalin was a foreigner that used the Bolsheviks to conquer his own country, something Lenin wasn't pleased with.

Independent nation recognized as such by whom?
Stalin was born in the Russian Empire (which Georgia was part of for centuries), moron. And he never was a foreigner in that country.
Enough with your dumb trolling. Let's get back to Canada bashing.
Actually I have a better idea - I better watch some Olympic biathlon instead of listening to such an ignorant fool as you.
Lenin was not pleased with Stalin's views on USSR structure. Lenin was for confederation of Soviet republics, while Stalin was for federation. And in 1921 Stalin had no real power at all, you idiot.
Georgia or Zakavkazskaya SSR was one of the four original founders of the USSR (together with Russia, Ukraine and Beylorussia), dumbass.

[Drake Tungsten]

Independent nation recognized as such by whom?

The international community, moron.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_invasion_of_Georgia

[Serb]

Independent nation recognized as such by whom?

The international community, moron.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Arm...ion_of_Georgia

Give me the quote about the "international community", moron.

[Drake Tungsten]

Independence of the DRG had been recognized by Russia in the May 7, 1920 treaty and the invasion of Georgia was not universally agreed upon in Moscow. It was largely engineered by two influential Georgia-born Soviet Russian officials – Joseph Stalin and Grigoriy (Sergo) Ordzhonikidze ...

Facing an uneasy war with Poland, the Soviet Russian leader, Vladimir Lenin, ordered to start negotiations with Georgia. In the Treaty of Moscow signed on May 7, 1920, Soviet Russia recognized Georgia’s independence and concluded a non-aggression pact. The treaty de jure established the existing borders between the two nations and obliged Georgia to surrender all third-party elements considered hostile by Moscow. ...

With its well-established diplomatic ties with several European nations and its control of strategic transit routes from the Black Sea to the Caspian, Georgia was viewed by the Soviet leadership as "an advance post of the Entente" and Stalin called his homeland "the kept woman of the Entente". ...

Under strong public pressure, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Georgian SSR set up, on June 2, 1989, a special commission for investigation of legal aspects of the 1921 events. The commission came to the conclusion that "the [Soviet Russian] deployment of troops in Georgia and seizure of its territory was, from a legal point of view, a military interference, intervention, and occupation with the aim of overthrowing the existing political order." At an extraordinary session of the Supreme Soviet of the Georgian SSR convened on May 26, 1990, the Sovietization of Georgia was officially denounced as "an occupation and effective annexation of Georgia by Soviet Russia."

Plus...

The independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia was de jure recognized by Romania, Argentina, Germany, Turkey, Belgium, United Kingdom, France, Japan, Italy, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Russia, among other countries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_Georgia

Learn to ****ing read, you Slavtard.

[Asher]

MAN I missed Serb.

I can't wait to see how he reacts when:
- Russia fails to win Gold at hockey
- Russia wins gold at hockey

Either way, it will be an epic display. PREPARE OURSELVES.

Seriously though, I hope for a Canada/Russia Gold medal game this year. It will be epic. Both teams are stacked.

[Drake Tungsten]

I'm hoping for anything other than a Canada/Russia gold medal games, which means one of those ****hole countries would win the gold.

[Serb]

MAN I missed Serb.

I can't wait to see how he reacts when:
- Russia fails to win Gold at hockey
- Russia wins gold at hockey

Either way, it will be an epic display. PREPARE OURSELVES.

No sh!t, Sherlock.

Seriously though, I hope for a Canada/Russia Gold medal game this year. It will be epic. Both teams are stacked.

Finally we both agree on something.

[Serb]

I'm hoping for anything other than a Canada/Russia gold medal games, which means one of those ****hole countries would win the gold.

Oh, shut up, you amateur.

[Ecofarm]

Serb, your avatar is really gay.

[Serb]

Learn to ****ing read, you Slavtard.

You have no ****ing idea what the **** are you talking about, you wiki-rat. And I have neither time or desire to educate you.
So, why don't you give me favour and just ****-off?

[Serb]

Serb, your avatar is really gay.

And who the **** might you be, Sir?

[Drake Tungsten]

I have neither time or desire to educate you.

You don't have the ability, either.

[Ecofarm]

Just sayin'

In case you didn't know.

[Asher]

I'm hoping for anything other than a Canada/Russia gold medal games, which means one of those ****hole countries would win the gold.

That's what happened in 2006. A couple countries people have never heard of before battled for Gold...Sveden and Phinland? Or something. It was awful.

[Serb]

And Sveden won the gold after losing to Russia 5:1 (iirc) and Denmark in group.

Finally we get back to the Olympic.