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This is my final post to this thread, which you successfully hijacked. Congratulations! :-)
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Not liking the discussion that results in a thread does not mean the thread was hijacked.
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3) Stop parroting the word Stalinist about just because it was used in a headline somewhere. You yourself admitted, and I quote you directly, "It may not be an environment that matches the scope of lives affected of the environment that Stalin created..." Stalin instituted a state wide, oppresive, insipid and comprehensive prevalent system whereby the whole country began to destroy itself. Children denounced parents. Wives denounced husbands. Parents children. There were show trials. There were purges. There were systematic persecution of Jews and Kulaks. There were industrial level prison and later death camps. This is not happening in Chechnya, and you belittle the crimes of Stalin by so implying. What is happening in Chechnya is criminal, but not Stalinist.
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I'm not going to stop referring to Stalinist practices as Stalinist practices simply because the size of the population of Chechnya does not equal the size of the population of 1930's Soviet Union.
That's absurd.
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Blatant and intentional misquoting and misinterpretation of what was said.
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I never defended the terrorists. Yet you have repeatedly claimed that I have. That you are now feeling some kinda way since I have turned your own tactics on you is hypocritical.
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You see, the funny thing is I understand your position. Russia is perpetrating crimes in Chechnya. But the whole point of my thread was based upon the crimes of a particularly ruthless band of criminals who have murdered and taken children hostage.
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And the whole point of my response is that any condemnation of the crimes of a ruthless band of criminals which fails to offer an even stronger condemnation of the people that are criminally attacking those criminals is a weak condemnation. Your own argument and claims of criminality mean nothing since you have specifically failed to address context.
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PS - I now notice that you have descended into personal insult. Hopefully a mod will lock this now.
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No more than you initiated.