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Re:Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national s... by LargoLasskhyfv on Monday December 15, 2025 @10:15PM (#46284339)
Oh! Really? https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/how-bushs-grandfa...

What happend in SK at the times was an authoritarian, maybe even police state. Not especially 'democratic'.

1989? Not that hard when 'mother russia' is collapsing, and occupied otherwise. For some decades, at least.

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Re:Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national s... by nkmnz on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @09:14AM (#46288719)
The fact you call it "mother" Russia lets me hope you use another word when referring to your own mother.
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Re:Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national s... by nkmnz on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @09:17AM (#46288747)
> Oh! Really? https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/how-bushs-grandfa...

From the article: "(...) his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act" – so... yeah, exactly. Germany 1945.

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