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Re:Moral causes of the collapse of the Soviet Union (2011) by asgard1024 on Sunday October 11, 2015 @05:23AM (#10368673)
Or pacifications that were undertaken, with U.S. government support, in Central and South America.

I am not defending Russian empire either. Putin actually seems to be bend to follow the U.S. model in Chechnya, Ukraine, Syria..

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Re:Moral causes of the collapse of the Soviet Union (2011) by rimantas on Sunday October 11, 2015 @11:01AM (#10369498)
Remind me, which countries did US annex.
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Re:Moral causes of the collapse of the Soviet Union (2011) by asgard1024 on Sunday October 11, 2015 @11:59AM (#10369755)
What has annexing to do with it? USSR didn't annex Czechoslovakia (the country where I was born) or Hungary; they just supported anti-democratic government that was more in line with their interests. You can downvote as much as you want, but the U.S. did the same in many countries of the Latin America, often with more violence. Here's a good reference: http://williamblum.org/books/killing-hope/

BTW, this is also spot on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6Vcct_g_z4 (and this insulation of the Eastern Europe is actually nicely shown now on the stance to the refugee crisis)

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Re:Moral causes of the collapse of the Soviet Union (2011) by PerfectDlite on Monday October 12, 2015 @10:50AM (#10374832)
> What has annexing to do with it?

Because Putin annexed part of Ukraine.

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Re:Moral causes of the collapse of the Soviet Union (2011) by guard-of-terra on Sunday October 11, 2015 @11:11AM (#10369555)
Mexico?

Texas and California.

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Re:Moral causes of the collapse of the Soviet Union (2011) by douche on Sunday October 11, 2015 @11:48AM (#10369717)
Puerto Rico, the Phillipines, Guam, Wake, Hawaii.
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