That's about 40 times the total US war deaths, and more than 5% of their population at the time. Some of the former republics lost 10-15% of their population.

Um...yes.

By Sally on Sat, 02/08/2014 - 3:14pm.

I know. And Tolstoy. I wasn't really suggesting that they were coasting on the whole Faberge egg thing--that was a joke.

You'd think the Russians would know better

By Boston_Bloke on Sun, 02/09/2014 - 12:59am.

What you say about the Russian loss of life in WWII is correct. So you'd think the Russian youth would know better than to flirt with Nazism. But that's exactly what's happening now. There is a widespread white power, anti-gay , xenophobic, anti-Semetic movement among Russian youth. They are unapologetic about it.

Yeah, I hate them for that too....

By moxie on Sat, 02/08/2014 - 8:45am.

Damned Nutcracker thing..... That alone should be grounds for expulsion from the Community of Nations.

You know I can think of a lot

By anon on Fri, 02/07/2014 - 11:28pm.

You know I can think of a lot worse things invented and exported by Russia over the years.

These jabs by uncivil oafs during the Olympics are petty and utterly insulting to the spirit of the games.

So unnecessary.... Remember,

By Lmo on Fri, 02/07/2014 - 11:35pm.

So unnecessary.... Remember, USA gave us Kevin Paul Dupont.

I'm not sure about that

By dga on Sat, 02/08/2014 - 7:39am.

Sounds kinda French to me.

USSR is not Russia, dimwit.

By dmcboston on Sat, 02/08/2014 - 10:44am.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_theater_hostage_crisis

"The Moscow theater hostage crisis, also known as the 2002 Nord-Ost siege, was the seizure of the crowded Dubrovka Theater on 23 October 2002 by 40 to 50 armed Chechens who claimed allegiance to the Islamist militant separatist movement in Chechnya.[1]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beslan_school_hostage_crisis

"The Beslan school hostage crisis (also referred to as the Beslan school siege or Beslan massacre)[2][3][4] started the first of September 2004, lasted three days and involved the capture of over 1,100 people as hostages (including 777 children),[5] ending with the death of over 380 people. The crisis began when a group of armed Islamic separatist militants, mostly Ingush and Chechen, occupied School Number One (SNO) in the town of Beslan, North Ossetia (an autonomous republic in the North Caucasus region of the Russian Federation) on 1 September 2004."

The Boston Marathon Bombing was done by two Chechen Islamic terrorists. Hardly Russians, dimbulb...and no, I'll never forget.

Chechnya IS part of Russia, though

By Ron Newman on Sat, 02/08/2014 - 10:49am.

Obviously they don't want to be part of Russia, but they are right now. If Russia had let them go their own way, there wouldn't be Chechen terrorism or a Boston Marathon bombing.

So, let me see if I'm following your logic

By MC Slim JB on Sat, 02/08/2014 - 11:41am.

If the Russians had allowed the Chechens to split off to form their own independent Islamist republic in their back yard, then the Boston Marathon bombing would never have happened, so the Marathon bombing was the Russians' fault, so eff you Russia?

Ok, then.

I think your sarcasm is

By anon on Sat, 02/08/2014 - 9:41pm.

I think your sarcasm is misdirected.

Reductively speaking, sarcasm is

By MC Slim JB on Sun, 02/09/2014 - 12:34am.

saying one thing while meaning the opposite. It does not apply to my post. I'm following Ron Newman's apparent reasoning to its logical conclusion, and finding that reasoning absurd.

I'm still waiting for a rational argument that says Dupont isn't a bigoted idiot of the sort that usually haunts Herald columns and their comments sections.

More Russians have died from

By Finn on Fri, 02/07/2014 - 11:46pm.

More Russians have died from Chechnyans than have we. Who is this guy?

More Chechens have died from

By VZTOR on Sat, 02/08/2014 - 12:17am.

More Chechens have died from Russians as well. It's almost as though a not very well regarded hockey writer shouldn't tackle international issues.

True, that.

By Finn on Sat, 02/08/2014 - 2:37pm.

True, that.

Block and report spam folks.

By anon on Sat, 02/08/2014 - 12:08am.

Block and report spam folks. No reason for this from a custodian of the news.

This is also the country that

By VZTOR on Sat, 02/08/2014 - 12:14am.

This is also the country that "gave us" Solzhenitsyn, Dostoyevsky, Akhmatova, Euler, Mendeleyev, Chagall, and Prokudin-Gorskii, so I'm not sure what to take from this other than the fact that Kevin Paul Dupont is a tremendous ass.

what an idiot

By deselby on Sat, 02/08/2014 - 12:19am.

There's a lot of hating on Russia in this Olympics coverage. It's like the Cold War is still going on.

Oy vey

By MC Slim JB on Sat, 02/08/2014 - 1:51am.

Ethnic Chechen / Avar, not Russian. Dzhokhar was born in Kyrgyzstan. They hated the Russians, too. Guess that puts you on the same side as the bombers, Kevin Paul Dupont.

Never Forget

By BostonDog on Sat, 02/08/2014 - 4:07am.

This is the country which warned the US authorities that the elder brother was up to no good and our intelligence ignored that warning.

If there is one thing

By TheVanJones on Sat, 02/08/2014 - 10:01am.

If there is one thing Americans and Russians can agree on, its the love of slaughtering Muslims.

Um...

By dmcboston on Sat, 02/08/2014 - 10:54am.

September 11th. British train and bus bombings. Spanish train bombings. American Embassy bombings. Russian school, theater takeovers. The list goes on. Fuck Islamic violent terrorists and fuck you.

Um ...

By SwirlyGrrl on Sat, 02/08/2014 - 11:34am.

Invasion of Iraq.

The CIA installing Reza Palavi as shah.

Many more examples of CIA and US Military incursions in the region.

We reap what we sow.

Swirls , it's all about the

By kvn on Sat, 02/08/2014 - 12:05pm.

Swirls , it's all about the oil, see WWI and WWII , we forgot the old adage , "Victori spolia ire" !

Bzzz, sorry, that is the wrong answer

By Lecil on Sat, 02/08/2014 - 12:26pm.

NOTHING justifies flying civilian planes into buildings or blowing up buses full of morning commuters. Sorry, Swirl, but the "well, the West is bad too" is a specious argument. Offensive too.

Yes, and what justifies

By Brian Riccio on Sat, 02/08/2014 - 1:32pm.

our continued incursions through drone attacks into other sovereign nations? I mean, what if Germany all of a sudden said "We should be allowed to send attack drones to Kentucky because we believe there are terrorists plotting against us there"?

I think the Germans already

By anon on Sat, 02/08/2014 - 3:02pm.

I think the Germans already tried that ....

Justifies?

By SwirlyGrrl on Sat, 02/08/2014 - 2:47pm.

No. I never used the term "justifies".

The term "explains" comes to mind.

I was merely explaining that our own long and sordid and ugly history of violent intervention in the Arab world has consequences.

You can ignore history all you want - but sometimes it explains reality. Do you honestly believe that our current program of drone strikes has nothing to do with the ability of terrorist organizations to recruit? Really?

Just to pick nits

By Sally on Sat, 02/08/2014 - 3:18pm.

(Because I'm fundamentally in agreement with you) Iranians are not Arabs. Just folks who happen to be sitting on a lot of natural resources that we (and the Brits and others) wanted.

Pakistanis and Afghans aren't Arabs either

By anon on Sat, 02/08/2014 - 3:45pm.

And that's where the drone attacks are largely taking place.

True dat

By SwirlyGrrl on Sat, 02/08/2014 - 4:22pm.

Neither are people from Pakistan ... "Islamic World" might be more accurate here.

But the point stands that, no matter where the drones fly, terrorist recruiting follows apace.

"We reap what we sow."

By Lecil on Sun, 02/09/2014 - 12:15am.

Your words, not mine.

How many of the kids in daycare at the WTC had any chance to "sow" anything? The firefighters who raced into those buildings were guilty some crime against some part of...well, tell me who exactly they had sinned against?

Iraq insulted a previous president of ours. This allowed us to invade them?

No. Simply no. Someone needs to grow the F* up, and I'd like to think it's us. And I have expected better from you.

And how many drone murdered toddlers were guilty of anything?

By SwirlyGrrl on Sun, 02/09/2014 - 12:04pm.

Again, you seem to think you have some special unique American right to righteous indignation, despite the fact that the righteous indignation of others toward actions our tax money has paid for is what makes it easy for them to justify their terrorism.

Take the chip off your shoulder for a moment - the one that is preventing you from engaging in critical thinking - and consider that others like you get upset over very real violent acts, too, and then go into eye-for-eye mode just like you do.

Perhaps the only real difference between them and you is that some of them act on their indignation?

Please re-read

By Lecil on Sun, 02/09/2014 - 9:19pm.

I'm not excusing the US's behavior. I'm saying both sides are wrong. As long as we continue to accept "an eye for an eye" mentality, that's what we're going to get.

You are completely irrational

By anon on Sun, 02/09/2014 - 12:54pm.

WTC daycare. Wrong. That was the all american boy Tim McVey and the direct hit on the Murrah Building daycare.

You are too busy rabidly hating even get your facts straight. The 9/11 bombings killed very few children.

Our are you going to tell us that McVey was a muslim, too?

I stand corrected.

By Lecil on Sun, 02/09/2014 - 9:20pm.

There was a daycare in the WTC, but apparently those kids made it out okay.

I hate the Past...

By Tony on Sat, 02/08/2014 - 6:39am.

That's where Hitler is from...

They were not from Russia. He

By anon on Sat, 02/08/2014 - 8:09am.

They were not from Russia. He is mistaken as well as both ignorant and arrogant. Obviously we all hate the two terrorists brothers but this comment is juvenile

Damn You Cambridge!

By BlackKat on Sat, 02/08/2014 - 8:08pm.

Remember, Camridge Ringe and Latin gave us the Tsarnev brothers. Boston should invade Cambridge.

If not for a Russian, what would the Pops perform on July 4?

By Ron Newman on Sat, 02/08/2014 - 9:42am.

Hey, wait a second!

By MC Slim JB on Sat, 02/08/2014 - 10:33am.

I thought gratuitous bigotry underpinned by a child's grasp of history and geography was the Herald's beat.

Politics aside (I think Gen.

By kvn on Sat, 02/08/2014 - 11:59am.

Politics aside (I think Gen. Patton was right on , ) there was a nice movie , Ninotchka (1939) . It was not made there but it was about there , and had a sweet Greta Garbo as the star.( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031725/ )

Good for Kevin Paul DuPont!

By O-FISH-L on Sat, 02/08/2014 - 12:31pm.

Thanks to Kevin Paul DuPont for providing us with this reminder on where the Boston Marathon Islamic terrorists came from. It will be interesting to see how the far-left new Globe owner John Henry reacts given his past support for Barack Obama and John Kerry, especially given that they just unilaterally changed the law to allow "refugee status" even for those who provided “limited material support” to terrorist groups. In other words, more Tsarnaevs en route. Brilliant!

Speaking of childish grasps of history,

By MC Slim JB on Sat, 02/08/2014 - 12:47pm.

W was President when the Tsarnaevs immigrated to the US. Do you really want to compare the records of Bush and Barry on preventing terrorist attacks on US soil?

Sorry, just broke one of my cardinal rules: never engage with anyone who reads The Daily Caller and isn't ashamed to admit they take it seriously.The tiniest bit of scrutiny of this new provision shows how typically hysterical the wingnut-o-sphere's reaction to it is. Might consider upgrading your news sources to something less ridiculous than Tucker "Bowtie-Wearin' Douchebag Rightie Hack" Carlson, InfoWars, and Fox News.

Hey,now

By Brian Riccio on Sat, 02/08/2014 - 1:27pm.

fish serves a very important purpose here. He make the rest of us look so much smarter!

Nothing smarter than self-proclaimed intelligence

By O-FISH-L on Sat, 02/08/2014 - 2:53pm.

@dvdoff: There's nothing smarter than self-proclaimed intelligence. Impressive. Then again, cerebral comments like, "Bowtie-Wearin' Douchebag Rightie Hack" are right up there too.

Which word are you quibbling with

By Sally on Sat, 02/08/2014 - 3:20pm.

in the phrase "bow tie wearin' douchebag rightie hack" exactly?

He has a point

By MC Slim JB on Sun, 02/09/2014 - 10:58am.

Sometimes Carlson wears a necktie.

How about this?

By MC Slim JB on Sat, 02/08/2014 - 5:24pm.

Tucker "Discredited, Pathologically-Lying Right-Wing Ideologue Posing Unconvincingly as a Journalist" Carlson. Though it remains true that he is a smarmy, weasely douchebag.

Obligatory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE

The minute I see someone citing The Daily Caller, I know everything I need to about their critical thinking skills.

So what?

By anon on Sat, 02/08/2014 - 1:47pm.

Is there a point to that obnoxious comment?

Russia did torment us with

By narciso on Sun, 02/09/2014 - 3:14pm.

Russia did torment us with tens of thousands of nuclear weapons back in the day, it provided training and material to countries on three continents, occupied half of Europe, now it mostly aids Iran in the buildup of their nuclear program, opening up another chapter of the balance of terror, still aids Cuba, and it's little brother Venezuella

These things are all true, but

By MC Slim JB on Sun, 02/09/2014 - 4:13pm.

that does nothing to change the fact that Dupont's tweet is mindless, misguided chest-thumping. Russia's government is responsible for many terrible things -- most governments do many things that don't stand up to moral scrutiny, including our own -- but suggesting they deserve our hatred as "the country that sent us the Tsaranaevs" is idiotic. Worse, Dupont is exploiting the memory of the Marathon bombing victims so he can score cheap points with equally brain-dead jingoes. He should be ashamed.

He seems to have been rather pleased with himself....

By Michael Kerpan on Sun, 02/09/2014 - 5:12pm.

... judging by his follow up tweets.

Of all the things to blame Russia for

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