Vladimir Bukovsky Discusses the Legacy of the Soviet Union

http://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=6505

Former Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky believes the failure to morally condemn the crimes of communism has left KGB operatives in charge of the government. Bukovsky, a Cato Institute Senior Fellow, believes an open condemnation of communism will help the former Soviet Union make progress toward civil society.

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[fruitsofnews]

thanks for uploading this. Very interesting.

[ZackServo2point0]

the chinese masses will break the communist influence eventually for more freedoms.

[StyrbjornStarke]

Putin and his lackeys are thugs

[hilletehnoob]

@CMTours732 Stalin won the war?russians won the war,he didn't create any smart decision for russian victory,on the contrary,he made many decisions to make it very easy to invade URSS and millions of russians died unnecesarely because of his mistakes in the war.

[toqtaqiya]

@CMTours732 Why are you so intent on killing peope?

[CMTours732]

@toqtaqiya No. Any reputable Soviet historian will tell you that the death toll in the Soviet Union is definitely in the range of 20 million and upwards. This is all well documented in the Black Book of Communism. This doesn't include the millions of souls who passed through the infamous Gulag system. The Collectivization of the peasantry alone killed 5 million upwards Ukranians. You've spent half your life serving an ideology of wickedness, it's time for you to face reality and give it up.

[toqtaqiya]

@CMTours732 You can keep throwing these inflated numbers at me but it just demonstrates your lack of knowledge you Euro shit.

[CMTours732]

@toqtaqiya This isn't about Sweden, nor is it about Russia. It's about the USSR, which murdered 20 million of its own people and terrorized and imprisoned countless others. Yes, Stalin won the war, and yes the USSR put a man in space. Nevertheless Communism was a disaster in almost every creative domain because it is a totalitarian system which did not allow any freedom or dissent.

[toqtaqiya]

@CMTours732 Russia is famous for winning World War II and space flights. Sweden is famous for lousy ABBA pop.

[CMTours732]

@toqtaqiya (continued) countless others.

[CMTours732]

@toqtaqiya Huh? Are you crazy? Why are you being a racist? I thought Communism was all about anti-racism, but you find it completely acceptable to say that it'd be better if Swedes 'never existed' (if though Sweden is today's shinning example of a socialistic haven)? Look, there are no Nazis in Sweden. Try Germany 70-80 years ago. And it would be far better if the USSR had never existed; Communism was a complete disaster in Russia. It killed 20 million people and imprisoned and enslaved

[toqtaqiya]

@CMTours732 It would have been better if sissy Nazi euro Swedes like you never existed.