Dan O'Herlihy: harmless old man, or left-wing nut?
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blackjackxxx — 11 years ago(December 28, 2014 07:57 AM)
Very true. In fact, I would posit that we actually ended up winning the Vietnam War by the reasons most wars are fought. Vietnam itself won by diluting the regime down to a Statist Free Market and have achieved a certain degree of freedom. They never really hated the US. Now, China? Yeah, they hate China.
Death notwithstanding, we both won. The political ramifications for the US, on the other hand.well, I'll just leave it at that. We're seeing it today.
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robert3750-92-607013 — 11 years ago(October 01, 2014 06:49 PM)
I see that no totalitarian system is bad enough for some not to defend it. Never mind that the likes of Stalin and Hitler murdered millions; they "improved conditions" from the previous regimes. Castro murdered fewer only because he didn't have the means to do so.
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Eric-62-2 — 12 years ago(September 12, 2013 10:32 AM)
That's just O'Herlihy revealing himself to be as much of a moron as Lincoln Steffens was when he said "I have seen the future and it works!" or when Henry Wallace in the 1940s let himself be duped by Stalin's Potemkin Villages showing an image of the USSR that was a lie. O'Herlihy would have been well-advised to spend an evening reading Alexander Solzhinetsyn instead.
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jloper — 12 years ago(November 18, 2013 11:24 AM)
If O'Herlihy was gullible enough and was given the nickel tour by the Soviet tourist agency, I suppose he could have been fooled into thinking the USSR wasn't a hellhole to the majority of its citizens. But by and large, people tend to vote with their feet, and if I'm not mistaken, more people risked their lives to exit East Berlin and enter West Berlin over the Berlin Wall, not vice versa.
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bullpen_1 — 11 years ago(April 29, 2014 09:01 AM)
Old Dan must not have heard of the term "potemkin village".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village
You have my word as an inveterate cheat.
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Butteoid — 11 years ago(August 01, 2014 06:20 PM)
I was born in 1952 and grew up in the era, so here's my take"
There's two types of people in this world: those who can think for themselves and those who can only think what they are told to think.
Today's right-wingers lost their nemesis more than two decades ago with the collapse of the "World-Wide Communist Conspiracy," so the people who direct them (so they can steal money during the diversion) have told them to aim their hate at their fellow Americans.
Were we Americans lied to? Funny how Putin's power base today is the Russian Orthodox Church, when we were told communism had outlawed faith.
Then there's the Chinese, who are clearing our capitalistic clock, stealing Americans' jobs, while we continue to pay Arabs for oil, fight their wars and fund al Qaida in the process, thanks to the GOP.
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venusboys3 — 11 years ago(September 13, 2014 02:20 PM)
A lot of the scary nonsense I was told as a kid about the USSR was surely nonsense. I've since met people who lived there in that era. They certainly don't portray it as a paradise they don't wish for a return (though some Russians do) but it sounds more like people here who speak of the depression or the stringent rationing of WWII. Then again, it's not like the people of Russia were dropped into the Soviet era from some fabulous era of plenty for all. There's a reason the revolution happened and succeeded.
Meanwhile some of the events since 9/11 here in the United States people rushing to give up their rights to gain a bit of supposed safety has resulted in an environment that is somewhat starting to resemble some of those old tales of the USSR. -
franzkabuki — 11 years ago(November 10, 2014 08:51 AM)
"A lot of the scary nonsense I was told as a kid about the USSR was surely nonsense".
Care to share in more detail what kind of nonsense we're speaking about here?
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Eric-62-2 — 11 years ago(October 06, 2014 09:24 PM)
Today's right-wingers lost their nemesis more than two decades ago with the collapse of the "World-Wide Communist Conspiracy,"
This is one of the most asinine comments I've ever seen, which reveals an all-too typical indifference of the American Left with its total indifference for Communism as a mass murdering ideology that left a death toll ten times higher than the one that had a swastika for an emblem. -
venusboys3 — 9 years ago(June 05, 2016 10:17 PM)
Communism isn't a 'mass murdering ideology' any more than 'capitalism' is. Not that any country has ever had true/pure communism or capitalism.
The people that died under various so-called 'Communist' regimes were killed by murderous tyrants and I'm not aware of murderous tyrants being a key part of communist ideology.
The real problem with Communism is that it only works if EVERYONE agrees to it but that just goes against basic human nature. As soon as someone tries to cheat (the Tyrants I mentioned) it starts to fall apart. -
Eric-62-2 — 9 years ago(June 27, 2016 12:16 PM)
Uh, no. Communism requires mass-murder to bring about its end results. Stalin's deliberate starvation of the Ukraine and Mao's "Great Leap Forward" as well the Cambodian Holocaust were the direct results of trying to implement Communist ideology in its purest form. Communism fails because it is rotten to the core at its base and requires totalitarianism to bring about its results.
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buchan1965 — 11 years ago(December 26, 2014 09:12 PM)
The Hollywood Blacklist was a bunch of RIGHT wing idiots ruining the careers of anyone to the left of Joe McCarthy.
Just where on earth did you learn history, you sh!theaded meat sack??? The Fox Newz Bubble?Adversity does not build character. It reveals it.
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Eric-62-2 — 11 years ago(December 30, 2014 12:53 AM)
The Hollywood Blacklist was a bunch of RIGHT wing idiots ruining the careers of anyone to the left of Joe McCarthy
This thread is about Dan O'Herlihy's lack of mental capacity regarding Soviet Russia and its many depravities. It'd be nice to see you stick to the subject.
Too bad O'Herlihy had to be so dense because it was my pleasure to enjoy recently his moving performance in the first season Christmas episode of "Dr. Kildare".