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Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP28 Jun 2025 4:42 p.m. PST

… America's Founders Hoped to Prevent Them

"FOLLOWING Joseph Stalin's March 1953 death, Marshal Giorgi Zhukov, the brilliant leading Soviet general in the defeat of Germany in World War II, waited nervously in secret with other Soviet senior officers in the room next to where the meeting of the Presidium was in progress at the Kremlin in June 1953. Zhukov and the others knew that if Lavrentiy Beria's Kremlin guards discovered them, they would be killed.

The marshal was in league with Nikita Khrushchev, then a high-ranking party official. The future Soviet premier enlisted the regular army's support for his conspiracy with other leaders to prevent Beria, the longtime head of an army of secret police, state security troops, and the Kremlin Guard, from taking power.

Beria had tortured Soviet officers in the 1930s to make false accusations against other officers. This in turn led Stalin to purge and kill senior Soviet officers, the shortage of which nearly lost the War in 1941. Crueler than Stalin, Beria cruised the streets of Moscow with his guards to abduct, rape and sometimes murder girls…"


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Baranovich30 Jun 2025 1:59 p.m. PST

Yeah, we've got an authoritarian takeover happening in the U.S. right now. The Founding Fathers would be horrified at what is happening in our country. And that's not a political statement, it's an historical and factual one.

Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP30 Jun 2025 5:17 p.m. PST

Glup!…

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