Re: The History of Latvia

On May 6, 4:07=A0am, "J. Anderson" <anderso...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> The Black Monk wrote:
> > The five people didn't take over the US, they took over a plane with
> > 92 people. =A0They established total control over it and did what they
> > wanted with it, just as the small band of Bolsheviks established total
> > control over Russia. =A0
>
> This is one of the weirdest analogies 'your side' has ever presented in
> this forum (and that's saying a lot).

What do you mean, "my side."

> Here's what you are comparing:
>
> 1) A few armed men hijack an aircraft with less than a hundred unarmed
> passengers and crew.

Already you've screwed up, sorry.  "Armed" with  boxcutters.  How do
you know none of the other 87 pocketknives, sharp scissors, or other
"weapons" comparable to those of the hijackers?

> The whole thing takes place in a confined space at
> an altitude of several kilometres. The purpose is to use the aircraft as
> a suicide bomb. The existence of crew and passengers is irrelevant.

Only for your convenience.

>  And it's all over in a matter of minutes.

That's all the time that was necessary.

> 2) A few thousand insurgents

Actually a few tens of thousands.

> usurp power in the largest country on
> earth, a country with 170 million inhabitants. Having done this they
> don't blow themselves up with the rest of the place but manage to stay
> in charge for the next 74 years.

Yes.  Do you have a problem with the above?

> In the first case the outcome was certain from the very beginning:
> whatever crew and passengers might undertake, they (and the hijackers)
> would peril.

Why?

>
> In the second case the leader (Lenin) and his helpers (the riflemen)
> were gone by 1924, but the whole thing rolled on and on with due
> assistance from the hijacked.

Bolsheviks ruled through terror at least through the 1940's.  You
didn't know that?  Ever hear of the gulags, the millions dead, etc.?
You ought to visit your local library.

BM