yeah... if the "we got here first" rule applied, we would get almost all of the planets (and the sun!!!) as well as everything outside the solar system. after all, we got there first!!!

The Soviet Union was the first... they went bye-bye.... Russia has no claim as they were only "part" of the soviet government! so, that leaves America's claim to all of space... Now as for the moon, America claimed it in the name of all mankind, that makes us the administrators of the moon... so, we can build a base if we give ourselves permission to in the name of "all mankind"

Ya know, like the treaties we made with the Indians, "this is yours as long as the sun shimes and the moon glows in the sky, for as long as the fish swim and the wind blows and the rain falls, or 30 days, whichever comes first!

Excuese me, Russia WAS the Soviet Union. The other countries were more like slaves and buffer zones.

Hey we did great things, people were happy, scared but happy. Now people are just scared.

and you have this account by who? your two scientist parents? of course they were happy and scared.

UMM I'm not totally sure but I think the Russians sent up a dog the first time.. we sent up the monkey... as for the polar bears, I dissagree, it should be the pink space ponies!

Yes, them and almost everyone else. People had money back then, they had property, now the government officials and people with American relations have everything while everyone else has to leave the country or go to Moscow to earn any decent money or living.

What about you, your pathetic excuese for a history textbook?



Yep, the British gained their entire empire with the clever use of flags.

Yes, them and almost everyone else. People had money back then, they had property, now the government officials and people with American relations have everything while everyone else has to leave the country or go to Moscow to earn any decent money or living.


ah yes, the great wealth of The Soviet Union, in the old days they had to build a wall in Berlin to keep us westerners from trying to crash their party. why the people had so much that we were braving gunfire and minefields, displacing whole lives and risking it all just to get into the soviet Union.

did you know that in the west we had to implement a policy of placing entire familys in jail and shooting the remaining family members of people who dared to defect to the soviet Union? I mean with all the great things that they had going for them that was the only way we could keep people from running into the arms of "Uncle Joe".

I know they had a problem with people trying to cross the border to get into there like the millions of people who flee the USA today on it's southern boarder!

Ah yes, the good old days of plenty Under the Bolshiveks. Now they really know how to run an empire!

Wrong.

Only party members were of any 'vital improtance' and even they got murdered in the streats. If we were to live in the best neighberhood then it would be Moscow, and let me tell you they only let their enemies and their best friends live there.

Yes, it was horrible what they did to some people, but what they did for the masses was amazing. People were educated, fed, clothed, and housed. And everyone was well qualified and most likely enjoyed what they did. The infrastructure allowed for expansion and growth as well as stability, cleanliness and splendor.

Now however things are braking down, populaion is declining, so is life expectancy, we have waitresses with physics degrees and garbage men who should be actors.



Now if your trying to sound sarcastic, stop it, your making a fool of yourself.

I am not saying many people would have liked to leave in search of what was out there, not to mention the families in Eastern Germany who were ripped appart by the Berlin Wall as well as being displaced, moved, intergrated, and well tortured. In a way we wanted our revenge on Germans, and in a way it was quite wrong and might have not been the smartest thing to do. If it wasnt for Stalin and his pathetic ego complex who knows what the Soviet Union might have become, or been. Lenin was the great one, Stalin was the fool, and so was everyone who came afterwords.

I dont tend to look much into the past, but there is one thing you do have to learn, nothing lasts, especially empires and super powers.

No, I live in the US, and I would not go back to Russia for a couple of decades untill Democracy actually benifits the country, or we go back to a more socialistic system, whichever one comes first.

Its not that I dont like freedom, I like opportunity, and currently neither one has the amount of it I need.

I have read it, and any form of government enslaves people in a general sense. I would rather be a slave to a person though, then a slave to an object.