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joshcryer

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38. Yep. The Moscow papers never got dumped.

Tue Sep 11, 2012, 10:03 PM

Sep 2012

There's a reason for that.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2028283,00.html

Russia's threats were taken very seriously by Wikileaks.

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AP EXCLUSIVE: MEMOS SHOW US HUSHED UP SOVIET CRIME [View all] kpete Sep 2012 OP

It is too bad that Wikileaks and Assange weren't around back then.... n/t xocet Sep 2012 #1

He works for Putin. Think he would have exposed Rusisan guilt? nt msanthrope Sep 2012 #5

Huh? SoapBox Sep 2012 #8

Why, yes. Assange works for Putin--- msanthrope Sep 2012 #12

Meanwhile your source is the Property-of-NewsCorp New York Times WhoIsNumberNone Sep 2012 #22

When did Rupert buy the NY Times? I'd have thought that would be bigger news than... JHB Sep 2012 #24

Now that I've Googled it, I think I am WhoIsNumberNone Sep 2012 #26

Um, no. I think you are conflating the NY Post with the NY Times. nt msanthrope Sep 2012 #29

That is a very nutty theory. JDPriestly Sep 2012 #25

It's Russian state TV, founded by Putin, the President. Assange works for him. nt msanthrope Sep 2012 #28

A lot of people work for RT. Many of them probably have no affection for Putin at all. JDPriestly Sep 2012 #30

Please explain.... philly_bob Sep 2012 #11

See # 12. nt msanthrope Sep 2012 #13

I believe DU has a smilie for that. 2ndAmForComputers Sep 2012 #33

Yep. The Moscow papers never got dumped. joshcryer Sep 2012 #38

So you have problems with teachers (I mean the real ones), and with people who expose truth DisgustipatedinCA Sep 2012 #44

There were plenty of people leaking stuff about the Soviet Regime. joshcryer Sep 2012 #37

Interesting... xocet Sep 2012 #41

Nah, I have an issue with "leftists" who associated with the Soviet Regime. joshcryer Sep 2012 #42

Thanks for the information vis-a-vis the history of the eastern bloc and the "Singing Revolutions." xocet Sep 2012 #46

I can't say I'm surprised, given how handling war crimes then was being done Posteritatis Sep 2012 #2

Interesting that the current recipient of that favor is now buddies with Lech Walesa. patrice Sep 2012 #3

Not sure what people expected the U.S. to do Lurks Often Sep 2012 #4

Right. And we needed to shut up about the Armenian genocide because the Turks were our friends. DisgustipatedinCA Sep 2012 #45

I'm not saying we should cover it up now, but Lurks Often Sep 2012 #47

Interesting. sofa king Sep 2012 #6

Except Geobbels was not exactly a disinterested witness. MrNJ Sep 2012 #20

Yes, they would have been important confirmation. sofa king Sep 2012 #36

K&R Solly Mack Sep 2012 #7

Sickening... SoapBox Sep 2012 #9

Stalin was georgian Stake Sep 2012 #10

and Hitler was Austrian Enrique Sep 2012 #14

FDR was very American of Dutch ancestry. Please. Please. Please. JDPriestly Sep 2012 #31

Russia admitted its guilt Nov 2010 dipsydoodle Sep 2012 #15

it was mainly Russian and Jewish people Stake Sep 2012 #16

Russian and Jewish prisoners in Poland in 1919-1922 Stake Sep 2012 #17

Disinformation Fail Nihil Sep 2012 #39

revenge of Stalin Stake Sep 2012 #40

Not surprising AnnieBW Sep 2012 #18

Anything to smear FDR and the "New Deal" at election time in the U.S.--the Associated Pukes Peace Patriot Sep 2012 #19

I may be wrong but I do not think is news. I think it has been well known for a long time. JDPriestly Sep 2012 #32

The U.S. denied direct knowledge of an atrocity done by an ally? Blue_Tires Sep 2012 #21

We looked the other way on a lot of things in the name of political expediency during the war WhoIsNumberNone Sep 2012 #23

enemy#1 Stake Sep 2012 #27

History is written by the victor. Xithras Sep 2012 #34

What were we expected to do, give propaganda fodder to the goddamn NAZIS? 2ndAmForComputers Sep 2012 #35

I think it's great that something that happened in 1943 can be Late Breaking News slackmaster Sep 2012 #43

another view at that problem Stake Sep 2012 #48