Re:Google Security Team Member on NSA: "Fuck These Guys"
by jeltz on Wednesday November 06, 2013 @05:40AM
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Are you sure they were? As far as I can tell the US has done more damage in Latin America than any USSR meddling. Stalin was really bad but the USSR was not ruled by Stalin for that long.
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Re:Google Security Team Member on NSA: "Fuck These Guys"
by gadders on Wednesday November 06, 2013 @05:52AM
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The US in Central America weren't angels, for sure, but I doubt if the USSR funding of left-wing groups was any better.
Stalin was a mad man on a par with Hitler, but even under later leaders it was still a repressive regime with Gulags.
Re:Google Security Team Member on NSA: "Fuck These Guys"
by pessimizer on Wednesday November 06, 2013 @06:11AM
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>I doubt if the USSR funding of left-wing groups was any better.
When you say that you doubt it, is that code for having no idea of the impact of Soviet funding in South America, but not being willing to say that you don't know? Or is it just that you know that everything bad that the US did was to counter something even worse that the evil USSR was doing?
Missile gap?
Re:Google Security Team Member on NSA: "Fuck These Guys"
by gadders on Wednesday November 06, 2013 @06:37AM
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It's code for the funding of Right Wing Groups by the US having been publicised more widely than the funding of Left Wing Groups by the USSR.
However, Cuba is a repressive dictatorship which will was funded by the USSR for many years.