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Old 14-05-08, 22:31   #15
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Re: Democracy

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Originally Posted by egb_hibs View Post
let's not discuss realpolitik again dude.
I agree that we've done it to death, but that doesn't mean when you say something which is blatantly wrong that it shouldn't be mentioned.

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i'd question that, if i could be ersed. but even if it so; so what? there is no merit in replacing one dictatorship with another. if hitler had conquered russia for example, that would hardly have been progress.
You are missing the point fairly spectacularly that it was the US who were overthrowing democracies, fledgling or otherwise, and not the Soviets.
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