The tweet reproduced on the right has circulated the blogosphere in the past few days.
The woke New York Times is glorifying Soviet diversity as a win over the U.S. to take a shot at those of us who might want to celebrate the anniversary of the moon landing. Amazingly it looks so much like what one might expect from Pravda.
A better comparison might have been to address the brutality of the Brezhnev Doctrine during that same time period. Soviet dissenters were declared mentally ill and subject to all sorts of punishments described as cures.
But foremost, let's recall the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 because their citizens were trying to sample freedoms that the Soviet system couldn't allow.
Wikipedia sums up the Brezhnev Doctrine this way:
The vague, broad nature of the Brezhnev Doctrine allowed application to any international situation the USSR saw fit. This is clearly evident not only through the Prague Spring in 1968, and the indirect pressure on Poland from 1980–81, but also in the Soviet involvement in Afghanistan starting in the 1970s. Any instance which caused the USSR to question whether or not a country was becoming a risk to international socialism, the use of military intervention was, in Soviet eyes, not only justified, but necessary.
Oh, but the diversity! In the eyes of the New York Times, freedom must take a back seat to diversity. But there's a bumper sticker idea for Putin: "Russia -- diversity is our strength. Don't like it? Turn yourself in."
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4:14 PM 7/19/2019
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