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The Man Who Saved Capitalism

Oct 04, 2011 21:23

Friends, enemies, let us come together in good spirits and faith to remember a great man who saved capitalism. Many Americans are not quite aware of just how close the US and A came to failing. The ravishes of the Great Depression and the global chaos which ensued sparked a seething cauldron of extreme discontent. In the 1930s, as Fascism was on ( Read more... )

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geezer_also October 5 2011, 04:35:16 UTC

Yeah, but if you do you are probably a commie (I just know he and Uncle Joe had SOMETHING going)

meus_ovatio October 5 2011, 05:09:09 UTC

Yeah, it was called Operation Overlord.

I believe the plan... sophia_sadek October 5 2011, 16:46:00 UTC

... was to get the Nazis and Soviets to fight to mutual exhaustion, then step in and finish the thing.

Re: I believe the plan... geezer_also October 5 2011, 16:48:16 UTC

Ah, thereby making it easier for us, and allowing "Uncle Joe" to solidify his position.

Re: I believe the plan... sophia_sadek October 5 2011, 16:50:48 UTC

He position was not solid enough to avoid being terminated in '53.

Re: I believe the plan... underlankers October 5 2011, 19:46:41 UTC

With the irony that the Soviets were planning the same thing in reverse with the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and wound up with a country larger in 1945 than it had been in 1939, control of half of Europe, and superpower status out of the Stalinist era.

Re: I believe the plan... underlankers October 5 2011, 19:34:55 UTC

The hilarious bit was that Uncle Joe planned to have *democracy and fascism* fight *themselves* to exhaustion and then Communism would would pick up the pieces. Unfortunately he rather overestimated how militarily strong the UK and France were.....

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