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GDM Themes by Potemkin 68 comments

GDM Themes by Potemkin 68 comments

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Wallpaper Other by thunderduck3141 25 comments

GDM Themes by Potemkin 28 comments

GDM Themes by Potemkin 68 comments
I'm a Commie. We only ever make one brand of anything. Every Soviet citizen wore the same kind of shoes, drove the same kind of car, lived in the same kind of apartment, and used the same kind of GDM theme. You'll use this GDM theme as it is and like it, comrade. ;-)
And no, I won't make one of a swastika. - Feb 20 2006

GDM Themes by Potemkin 68 comments

GDM Themes by Potemkin 28 comments

GDM Themes by Potemkin 68 comments

GDM Themes by Potemkin 68 comments

GDM Themes by Potemkin 68 comments
I don't think this is the right place to begin a politico-historical debate about Communism, and I don't feel like continuing it by email either; we are clearly never going to persuade each other, so let's just agree to disagree, okay?
And to lighten the mood, here's a Lenin joke I heard once:
Lenin headed directly to Paradise after he died. He thought he had done a lot of good for the oppressed, so he deserved retirement in Paradise. He knocked on Heaven's door:
"Knock, knock!"
God shouted from his cosmically gigantic and perfectly spherical office:
"Who's there?"
"Vladimir Ilyich Lenin."
"Okay, okay! The last one in be sure to close the door. It's kind of cold in here..."
God studied carefully Lenin's dossier and decided to send him to the most suitable place: Hell.
A short time passed after Lenin's resettlement to Hell. Satan stormed into God's office one day.
"Almighty, pray hear my complaint! Hell is no longer functional. Lenin and his party nationalized the boilers, the furnaces... the whole of Hell. Sinners and devils spend time in interminable Party meetings. In whatever time is left, they all gather in a huge choir. Women are always in front, men in the back rows. Everything must be absolutely politically correct. They rehearse The Internationale and other revolutionary songs, every day and every night. The electricity bill alone, Almighty God, will bankrupt You. Right now, Your Law is not observed: Nobody suffers, nobody is tortured. Pray, Almighty God, take Lenin back to Paradise!"
Lenin was sent back to Paradise.
A short time passed after Lenin's transfer to Paradise. Satan stormed into God's office one day.
"God Almighty, pray hear my complaint! Hell is no longer functional. The sinners and devils want Lenin back. The sinners and devils together declared a general strike. They threaten to have a Revolution. Pray, God, deport Lenin to Hell!"
"Listen up, comrade Satan! First of all, God does not exist..." - Jul 23 2005

GDM Themes by Potemkin 68 comments
And most of the ruling classes of the Eastern European nations had eagerly collaborated with the Nazis during the War; their oppressed peoples were liberated from the Nazi yoke by the Soviet Red Army. The threat of a renewed attack from the imperialists remained after 1945, doubly so since the West had the Bomb and the Soviet Union had only its conventional forces to protect itself. To draw Eastern Europe into the Soviet sphere of influence was therefore an absolute stategic necessity - there could be no repetition of Hitler's surprise Blitzkrieg of 1941. And the policy worked - the West did not invade again for another four decades.
You talk of the millions who suffered and died in the camps; what of the millions who suffered and died in the wars of imperialism, in the slums and ghettos of capitalist societies, and in the Nazi death camps? The Soviet Union, and its armed forces, saved the world from that. Слава! - Jul 17 2005

GDM Themes by Potemkin 28 comments
If you haven't already done so, feel free to post it in the 'Splash Screens' section of gnome-look.org. - Jul 14 2005

GDM Themes by Potemkin 28 comments

GDM Themes by Potemkin 68 comments

GDM Themes by Potemkin 28 comments

GDM Themes by Potemkin 68 comments
But I have only one thing to say in reply to your little rant:
When capital and the ruling classes apologise for: colonialism, the 7 day working week, children in coalmines, the Opium Wars, the massacre of the Paris Commune, slavery, the Boer War, Apartheid, anti-union laws, the First World War, trench warfare, mustard gas, fascism, the Great Depression, asbestosis, the Mafia, DDT, McCarthyism, the electric chair, environmental degradation, the military suppression of Greece, Malaya, Indonesia, Chile, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama and Turkey, the Gulf War, trade in human body parts, Exxon Valdez, deforestation, the destruction of the ozone layer, exploitation of labour and the deaths of 50,000,000 communists and trade unionists in the 20th century alone, then - and only then - will I consider apologising for the errors of socialism.
Pwned. :D - Jul 06 2005

GDM Themes by Potemkin 68 comments

GDM Themes by Potemkin 28 comments
But I'm glad you like it. :) - Jun 23 2005