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Maybe it was the French at Moscow.

The Saudis admit to funding the bombs that have blown up trains, busses, subways, airports, and to taking schools and musical performances hostage.

Mother Russia has always dealt with it. More than 27 million died in The Great Patriotic War, but they took Berlin.

The West plays politics, Russia plays to win.

And he did lose much better than the generals could have, another six months, Germany would have been overrun by France!

The Saudis hold that their Islam is the one true Islam, and all others are only pretenders to Islam.

Unchecked leadership always comes up with this idea, because no one will say otherwise.

The Saudis can blow up a bus, the Russians stopped the blitzkrieg at Kurst.

Sochi is bait in a rat trap.

. . .Mr. Putin has vowed to “do whatever it takes” to protect the Games and the visitors they were designed to impress. Of that there can be no doubt. The Russian President has a habit of doing what it takes, and then some. He is known for his ruthlessness and his indifference to the international outrage his actions provoke. Mr. Putin has been waging a viciously cruel anti-terrorism campaign in the republics of Chechnya and Dagestan, where government forces are accused by human rights groups, as well as the European Court of Human Rights, of being complicit in the torture and disappearances of thousands of people.

Again, lots of places have dodgy sides.
For those who say it shouldn't be held there because there might be a terrorist attack - well America HAS recently had that happen at a sporting event, and yet I doubt you'd say it shouldn't be held there for that reason.
For those who bring up wars that Russia has had/atrocities that have been committed by Russian governments - can you find me a country that HASN'T got something like that in it's history?

I couldn't care less about Russia's history. I care about Russia's present.

I care that an international organization like the IOC is prepared to put the security and well-being of LGBT athletes, coaches, support personnel, journalists, spectators and volunteers at risk by permitting the Olympic Winter Games to be held in a country which has so recently taken repressive measures against its LGBT citizens.

I care that multinational brands like Coca Cola, Visa and McDonald's believe that there is more commercial value in being associated with the Olympic Games than there is commercial penalty for supporting the regime that is staging these games.

This has nothing to do with today's history, and everything to do with tomorrow's history.

Hey, Putin says the LGBTs will be fine as long as they don't try to bugger the Russian youth...

^^^
Who says they'd even want to?

Maybe Putin's projecting?

Communist China Olympics were OK?

Russia is dealing with Saudi funded terror, NGOs trying to setup their own networks through Russia, and a low birth rate.

It was homosexuals who said what went on in private between consenting adults was no one elses business.

Russia had that law ten years before America.

As soon as private behavior in America became legal, they took to the streets.

It does seem they are attention seeking.

So NGOs want to hold Pride Rallies in Russia? That is where it runs into trouble, agents of a forgine power and all.

The birth rate under communist Russia was almost as bad as WWII. It is a huge country, and producing more Russians is a national goal.

Trying to make the Russian State look bad, because of Dagastan, repression, is something you can do every day of your twenty year sentence in the salt mines. Those are the guys the Russians warned us of, who bombed the Boston Marathon.

If you think your Rights as a Merican follow you abroad, go hold a Pride March for Freedom from Nigeria to Uganda. Maybe give away Bibles in Saudi Arabia and North Korea. Insulting the King Of Cambodia is not wise.

The famous Jamacian Bobsled Team was detained for bringing Rastafarian Religious Articles along in their private luggage.

Local law applies to anyone foolish enough to go there.

And while you are dissing the Russians, they are all that stands between you and the terrorists who want to make the news by killing you.