Soviet Union if Lenin lived longer. Soviet Union if Andropov

[markg91359]

Originally Posted by Anhityk

Andropov, of course, was not the same as Stalin. He tried to strengthen control within the USSR. For example, it was common that people, especially office workers, often did not stay in the office during official working hours, but did personal things, visited shops, went to the cinema, etc. Andropov sent controls whose task it was to catch those absent from the workplace. And more like that.
Samantha's episode is a bit touching, like everything about children who are at the age where they start to perceive the world of adults. Especially since she was only a few years older than me. I was also a schoolboy at that time, we were told about her at school. It is sad that she was given so few years.

There is a splendid statue of Samantha Smith on the grounds of the state capitol in Maine. The statue depicts her holding the dove of peace. She was very young when she died in the crash of a commuter plane attempting to land at Auburn, Maine as I recall. Airline safety has improved a great deal in the last thirty years. Back in 1985 you did occasionally hear about a crash, particularly among the smaller commuter planes.

Her parents used the fame she obtained to try and create a career for her in show business. She had taken roles in a couple of film productions. Her father was with her when the plane crashed and was killed as well.

The story reminds me a bit of the Greek fable of Icarus. Icarus wanted to fly and so the Gods showed him how to take feathers and use wax to apply them to his body. Icarus was able to fly and all was going well until he decided he wanted to fly higher and faster. He was warned not to do so, but did anyway. He got close to the sun and it melted the wax. His feathers fell off and Icarus fell to his death in the ocean. Perhaps, Samantha's parents wanted too much for her at age 13. In any event, her actions deserve to be remembered.

[kovert]

If memory serves me correct, Lenin started out as a revolutionary democratic socialist, I believe his main squeeze was part of the lower "nobility" & at 1st he was in the employ of the ("holy" rumi?) alemi empire.

That said he seemed to have got won over by the revolutionary times & fervor & decided to not only overthrow the czarist rumi empire but also the entire globalist plantation system as well.

I'm by no means a russophile (& quite frankly neither was Lenin, if one actually reads his musings on the "great russian" ethno-nationalists as well as the czarist rumi [& euros as a whole] imperialists), but him & his movement made a significant contribution to popularizing a critique & criticism of the feudal & capitalist nature of the globalist plantation system to the coloured colonials.

Lenin seemed more of a movement kind of guy to me, that's probably why he was viewed with such horror by the then establishment.