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Post by Lady Violet on Feb 3, 2005 2:59:55 GMT -5
VioletsareBlueLV: And you are true to Marxism? Were you true during the revolution?
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Post by Valodya Bassarov on Feb 3, 2005 3:01:22 GMT -5
Bassarov: That is different. In order for the revolution to succeed, we had to react to the events around us. We had to put realities ahead of ideals.
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Post by Lady Violet on Feb 3, 2005 3:03:18 GMT -5
VioletsareBlueLV: Is that so? What makes you any different than the Stalinists? We too are adapting to the political realities we exist in. Are you saying that it is fine for you to compromise ideals to adapt to realities but we can not do the same?
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Post by Valodya Bassarov on Feb 3, 2005 3:05:17 GMT -5
Bassarov: You don't understand. Red Infinity is doing this in their own interest. I did it for the success of the revolution. It was for the greater good of the people behind the revolution.
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Post by Lady Violet on Feb 3, 2005 3:07:55 GMT -5
VioletsareBlueLV: And we are doing this for the greater good of the people this state represents.
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Post by Valodya Bassarov on Feb 3, 2005 3:10:29 GMT -5
Bassarov: I will admit that some mistakes were made in the revolution. Maybe we were a little too willing to compromise ideals. Hence, the world we have today. I have learned my lesson, but if I could do it all over again, I am not sure I could have done things differently. We were up against impossible odds.
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Post by Lady Violet on Feb 3, 2005 3:12:43 GMT -5
VioletsareBlueLv: Yes you were, I understand that and I appreciate your sacrifices and the hard decisions that had to be made. You and the others removed capitalism's stranglehold on the Earth. I can agree with you. The revolution could not have gone differently and succeeded.
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Post by Valodya Bassarov on Feb 3, 2005 3:17:15 GMT -5
Bassarov: But some people went too far with it. They killed political enemies that should have been our allies...because they feared counter revolution. They killed others as well. And now, to this day that tradition of killing has been continued....
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Post by Lady Violet on Feb 3, 2005 3:26:01 GMT -5
VioletsareBlueLV: And so you see how the policies mushroomed. The hunt for political opposition continues today. The desire to maintain power, to prevent counter revolution...all of that lead to this machiavellian socialist monolith.
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Post by Valodya Bassarov on Feb 3, 2005 3:27:17 GMT -5
Bassarov: I see how things may have gotten out of hand. It was not right then and it is certainly not right now.
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Post by Lady Violet on Feb 3, 2005 3:30:05 GMT -5
VioletsareBlueLV: This must be hard for you. How do you survive? You are very stubborn. Is that how you survive? By denial? Or maybe because most rebels don't understand what happened. They don't understand that you are guilty of creating this thing that you have now come to loathe. Things didn't go as you envisioned.
VioletsareBlueLV: Did they Bassarov?
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Post by Valodya Bassarov on Feb 3, 2005 3:34:53 GMT -5
Bassarov: I survive not by stubborness or denial. I survive because I still have faith that this warped, sickly excuse for socialism can be uprooted and that, someday, we will get things right.
Bassarov: I can admit that things could have been done differently. But the wrongs in the past do not justify the wrongs in the present.
Bassarov: You can read more about my thoughts in my book.
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Post by Lady Violet on Feb 3, 2005 3:38:31 GMT -5
VioletsareBlueLV: I would love to read it. I am a busy woman but I would love to hear what you have to say about the revolution. I'm sure you'll do your very best to discredit Red Infinity and make yourself out to be a hero of the people.
VioletsareBlueLV: Is that how you see yourself?
VioletsareBlueLV: As a hero of the people?
VioletsareBlueLV: Who are you really, Bassarov?
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Post by Valodya Bassarov on Feb 3, 2005 3:40:02 GMT -5
Bassarov:....
Bassarov: I don't think of myself like that. Anyway, who are you?
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Post by Lady Violet on Feb 3, 2005 3:41:56 GMT -5
VioletsareBlueLV: lol
VioletsareBlueLV: You mean you haven't figured it out?
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