Stalin was long dead by that time and Brezhnev certainly did care. And that's why the USSR was not the worst place to live back then. I don't say that conspiracy theorists are right, though.
You forget one small but important thing: the coal you mine is almost ready to use, but you don't mine pure uranium, you mine a lot of rock to extract pitchblende, gummite, torbinite and so on. Then you process it to yellowcake. Then you purify that and for most current reactors you have to enrich it. Only then you've got usable fuel. And as for breeders, IIRC there is just one commercial breeder on the whole planet currently in operation. They are notoriously complicated to build and to maintain.
If this is more of that "democracy" bullshit, let me remind you once again: Hitler was elected democratically!
This isn't getting any more true from repeating. The senile president of the Weimar Republic was pressed by NSDAP and some influential tycoons to appoint Hitler as chancellor and finally gave in in early 1933.
The "permanent revolution" policy was abolished by Stalin, who adopted the "socialism in one country" policy. Your argument was correct for the early interbellum, but after, say, mid thirties exporting communism was not really an issue anymore.
Frankly, you sound the same as the Americans who believe that Stalin ruled USSR from 1917 until 1989. In the early nineties Putin was just an errand boy for Sobchak, then mayor of St. Petersburg. Different people ruled back then and these people were big fans of all American.
As already written, after a year of small bore firearms, so after two years altogether. It is not a geometric scale, just a distinction between air guns, small bore + weak load, and the real deal.
I am not against firearm ownership as it is, even used to be a target shooter years ago. I am just wary of firearm ownership for everyone, and rather see it as a privilege, akin the privilege to drive a car on a public road. If one wishes to obtain a firearm, one ought to pass a rigorous test, and before the test one ought to show the ability of responsible shooting by proving - for example - air gun shooting at a target range for a year, then moving to shooting.22lr at target range for a year before being allowed to acquire something more deadly.
And still I don't think firearms used for self defense are a good idea. It is just doctoring on symptoms and because this workaround is available, the actual problem won't ever be fixed.
because 1) most people aren't responsible and 2) if you actually need a firearm for self defense, then there is something really wrong with the society that needs fixing in first place.
Yep, absolutely. It is difficult to accept that my consciousness - basically the only part of me I am proud of - is just a parasitic entity. Might just as well kill myself.
I know that replying to oneself is ugly, but I remembered this piece of "ancient" history just after I submitted the previous comment. The nineties were strange, Metro used to own Vobis (back then a large PC retailer, sort of German Dell, and also Maxdata, one of the largest European IT manufacturer/vendor.
I did. It is easy to be an internet tough guy. But when push comes to shove, things can change very quickly. Especially when the one who gives orders is "one of their team" and the victims-to-be are branded as "unpatriotic traitor commies". So, get real, dude. I've seen many people breaking whatever oaths they made. The loudest and most patriotic ones were the first to break them. Not preconceived notions, just some experience you are lacking.
You seem to expect it, making your point very much moot. My point was that people say "no such kind of accident/circumstances can ever happen here" and think "no kind of accident/circumstances can ever happen here". Denial is not just a river in Egypt.
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Stalin was long dead by that time and Brezhnev certainly did care. And that's why the USSR was not the worst place to live back then.
I don't say that conspiracy theorists are right, though.
The conspiracy theorists have got an answer to that: cheap grain imports from USA.
Gagarin, actually. :-(
And most younger people not born in Russia never heard the name
It is not full of them, they just happen to appear here somewhat more often than in real life. And boy they are loud.
You forget one small but important thing: the coal you mine is almost ready to use, but you don't mine pure uranium, you mine a lot of rock to extract pitchblende, gummite, torbinite and so on. Then you process it to yellowcake. Then you purify that and for most current reactors you have to enrich it. Only then you've got usable fuel.
And as for breeders, IIRC there is just one commercial breeder on the whole planet currently in operation. They are notoriously complicated to build and to maintain.
This isn't getting any more true from repeating. The senile president of the Weimar Republic was pressed by NSDAP and some influential tycoons to appoint Hitler as chancellor and finally gave in in early 1933.
Thank $DEITY uranium doesn't have to be mined and refined but just magically appears in a ready-to-use pellet form.
What exactly is your point? The fact that America sucks is completely unrelated to the fact that Russia sucks, too.
The "permanent revolution" policy was abolished by Stalin, who adopted the "socialism in one country" policy. Your argument was correct for the early interbellum, but after, say, mid thirties exporting communism was not really an issue anymore.
Frankly, you sound the same as the Americans who believe that Stalin ruled USSR from 1917 until 1989. In the early nineties Putin was just an errand boy for Sobchak, then mayor of St. Petersburg. Different people ruled back then and these people were big fans of all American.
As already written, after a year of small bore firearms, so after two years altogether. It is not a geometric scale, just a distinction between air guns, small bore + weak load, and the real deal.
Note that firearm ownership is not a basic human right. But if all you know is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
I am not against firearm ownership as it is, even used to be a target shooter years ago. I am just wary of firearm ownership for everyone, and rather see it as a privilege, akin the privilege to drive a car on a public road. If one wishes to obtain a firearm, one ought to pass a rigorous test, and before the test one ought to show the ability of responsible shooting by proving - for example - air gun shooting at a target range for a year, then moving to shooting .22lr at target range for a year before being allowed to acquire something more deadly.
And still I don't think firearms used for self defense are a good idea. It is just doctoring on symptoms and because this workaround is available, the actual problem won't ever be fixed.
because 1) most people aren't responsible and 2) if you actually need a firearm for self defense, then there is something really wrong with the society that needs fixing in first place.
Here you are. This is the assault rifle.
Yep, absolutely. It is difficult to accept that my consciousness - basically the only part of me I am proud of - is just a parasitic entity. Might just as well kill myself.
Poor donkey. Guess it works similar to the "if you don't buy this magazine, we'll kill this dog" magazine cover.
I know that replying to oneself is ugly, but I remembered this piece of "ancient" history just after I submitted the previous comment.
The nineties were strange, Metro used to own Vobis (back then a large PC retailer, sort of German Dell, and also Maxdata, one of the largest European IT manufacturer/vendor.
Metro also used to be an ISP in the nineties. They sort of rebranded it after it failed and then it merged with AOL.
I did. It is easy to be an internet tough guy. But when push comes to shove, things can change very quickly. Especially when the one who gives orders is "one of their team" and the victims-to-be are branded as "unpatriotic traitor commies". So, get real, dude. I've seen many people breaking whatever oaths they made. The loudest and most patriotic ones were the first to break them. Not preconceived notions, just some experience you are lacking.
You seem to expect it, making your point very much moot.
My point was that people say "no such kind of accident/circumstances can ever happen here" and think "no kind of accident/circumstances can ever happen here". Denial is not just a river in Egypt.
I guess you never heard of Stanley Milgram and his little experiment.
No, he wasn't. He was appointed as chancellor by the president.
Well, as with Spanish inquisition, accidents are seldom expected. That's why they are called accidents.
Ah, you mean sunflowers. Well, if you press the seeds for oil and refine it, you could use it to power a generator, I guess.