Their hesitancy said it all.
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Can’t say “war” without risk of 15 year incarceration. The translated text contained the word
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This is another situation in which the availability of masks (ideally covering the entire face) would go a long way toward promoting public safety.
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Is it a US thing to lump Lenin in as being just the same as Stalin? In the UK Stalin usually gets paired with Hitler, whereas Lenin is remembered similarly to, say, Brezhnev. (ie still Bad and Wrong, but in a much lesser league than uncle Joe).
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The Soviet era of Russian history is all one big Commie lump for the majority of Americans. This is a country that can’t teach its K-12 students its own history in an honest and nuanced way. Things get a bit better at the better post-secondary level but that still leaves at least 75% of Americans conflating Lenin with Stalin.
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Wait, I thought Lenin was assassinated in NYC in 1980?
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There’s a mediocre song that starts faintly in the background of the first speaker, “Loaded” by Primal Scream, which begins with an excerpt from The Wild Angels.
“Just what is it that you want to do?”
“We wanna be free. We wanna be free to do what we wanna do, and we wanna get loaded and have a good time. That’s what we’re gonna do, we’re gonna have a good time, we’re gonna have a party!”
I believe it’s Peter Fonda saying those words. You can hear them all on the clip if you listen very closely.
The fact that we can hear it seems like it means something, though it’s probably nothing.
Also…
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The shipbuilders’ tactics worked, and public sympathy in the Glasgow area and beyond was on the side of the workers who took part. That was backed up with demonstrations in Glasgow, one of which was attended by around 80,000 marchers.[7] At one demonstration, on Glasgow Green, Tony Benn addressed those in attendance, and Matt McGinn and Billy Connolly (both former shipyard workers) offered entertainment to the gathered crowd. The campaign was also well-backed financially, and at one meeting for the campaign, Jimmy Reid was able to announce that the campaign had received a £5,000 contribution from John Lennon, to which an attendee replied “but Lenin’s deid!” (dead)
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Same or even worse really for Gaddafi (much to Hillary Clinton’s sadistic delight).
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