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Compare the frequency shapes to what's on this tape.

And she set another audio file against the old Soviet reel we'd found in the forbidden lab.

The similarities were chilling.

The same ten-note phrases, the same pulsing modulation, though the lab tapes were slower, more brittle.

It must be of pretty good size if it's going to demolish the whole base.

How do you know it's going to be a meteor? You think the Soviets would try to bomb it? Don't be silly, Taggart, Karatsky said, grinning.

Taggart grinned back.

I'm not thinking they'd bomb us, but I'm trying to look at all the angles.

And is there anything we can do about it, or will it be like the airline incident? If we hadn't made them switch planes, nothing would have happened.

What if, no matter what we do, Moon Base 1 goes anyway? Remember, we haven't yet built Moon Base 2.

If our only base on the moon is destroyed, the Soviets will have the whole moon to themselves.

Have you any suggestions? Sure, said Taggart.

Hello and welcome to Wild Old Times, a podcast about the strange and curious corners of Ireland and Irish history.

My name is Ciaran Colliff, and in this episode I want to talk to you about the Irish Soviets.

Nowadays, when people hear the word Soviet, they usually think of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Russia's Communist Empire, in other words.

for a given value of elected.

They all subscribed to a socialist doctrine, with the idea that the land and assets of the state were held by the people in common rather than by individuals.

And their government followed a structure of elected councils, or Soviets.

It's that last part that we need to dig into.

Yes, and currently, what with our readjustment, remember, when they used to call them recessions, or even earlier, depressions, our steel industry is operating at less than 60% of capacity.

The Soviets always operate at 100% of capacity.

They don't have to worry about whether or not they can sell it.

if they produce more steel than they immediately need they use it to build another steel mill the chief shook his head as long ago as nineteen fifty eight they began passing us product by product grain butter and timber production jet aircraft space flight and coal paul leaned forward impatiently we put out more than three times as many cars refrigerators kitchens stoves washing machines his superior said that's the point while we were putting the product of our steel mills into automobiles and automatic kitchen equipment they did without these things and put their steel into more steel mills more railroads more factories we leaned back and took it easy sneered at their progress talked a lot about our freedom and liberty to our allies and the neutrals and enjoyed our refrigerators and washing machines until they finally passed us you sound like a task broadcast from moscow um i've been trying to the chief said however that's still roughly the situation the fact that you and i personally and a couple of hundred million americans prefer our cars and such to more steel mills and prefer our personal freedoms and liberties is beside the point we should have done less laughing seven years ago and more thinking about to-day as things stand give them a few more years at this pace and every neutral nation in the world is going to fall into their laps that's putting it strong isn't it strong the chief growled disgustedly that's putting it mildly even some of our allies are beginning to waver eight years ago india and china both set out to industrialize themselves today china is the third industrial power of the world where's india about twentieth ten years from now china will probably be first i don't even allow myself to think where she'll be twenty-five years from now the indians were a bunch of idealistic screwballs that's one of the favorite alibis isn't it actually we the west let them down they couldn't get under way the soviets backed china with everything they could toss in paul crossed his legs and leaned back it seems to me i've run into this discussion a few hundred times at cocktail parties the chief pulled out a drawer and brought forth a king-sized box of kitchen matches he struck one with a thumbnail and peered through tobacco smoke at paul kosloff as he lit up the point is that the system the ruskies used when they started their first five-year plan back in nineteen twenty eight and the system used in china works if we with our traditions of freedom and liberty like it or not it works every citizen of the country is thrown into the grinding-mill to increase production everybody the chief grinned sourly that is except the party elite who are running the whole thing everybody sacrifices for the sake of the progress of the whole country i know paul said give me enough time and i'll find out what this lecture is all about the chief grunted at him the commies are still in power if they remain in power and continue to develop the way they're going we'll be through completely through in another few years we'll be so far behind we'll be the world's laughing stock and everybody else will be on the soviet bandwagon he seemed to switch subjects ever hear of somerset magham sure i've read several of his novels i was thinking of magham the british agent rather than magham the novelist but it's the same man british agent um he was sent to petrograd in nineteen seventeen to prevent the bolshevik revolution The Germans had sent Lenin and Zinoviev up from Switzerland, where they'd been in exile, by a sealed train in hopes of starting a revolution in Tsarist Russia.

Schvernick said, Thus far, we've rambled around hurriedly on a dozen subjects, but now we must become definite.

Paul nodded.

You come to us and say you represent the West and that you wish to help overthrow the Soviets.

Fine.

When some mutants stole a NASA shuttle to go to Asteroid M, they also shot down an American Pursuit shuttle, and that leads S.H.I.E.L.D. and the President to take notice.

While Magneto has Asteroid M parked above the Soviet Union, and given his unfriendly history with the Soviets, this of course looks like a threat to them.

But given their threats to Magneto, he decides to take these wayward mutants in, and he goes down to Earth to extract nuclear missiles from the Soviet submarine that he sank so many years ago now.

It's here that the blue team faces him, but they attack instead of talking, and this forces Magneto to set off a nuke and catching Rogue in its line of fire.

So now Magneto orders Moira to perform the same genetic manipulation on the captured X-Men to bring them to his side.

Meanwhile, the Gold Team is trying to find a scenario where they can fly to Asteroid M and kick some butt, but they can't find a good solution.

Unfortunately for them, Nick Fury tells them it's now or never because the Soviets have just deployed a massive planet popper, which they're going to use against Magneto.

All right, Curtis, your thoughts.

I imagine Al Gore asking for the contact info and then doing a combination of Special Forces, United States Air Power, and Northern Alliance to fight the Taliban and to take out the assets.

to the best that they could and and then pulling out and just leaving afghanistan in this limbo of civil war it's not ideal by any means but it's what we decided to do in the 90s when the soviet union pulled when the 80s late 80s when the soviet union pulled out of afghanistan the united states you know by 1991 Afghanistan had fallen into a civil war, and in part because the United States had cynically used Afghanistan to fight the Soviets, and when the war was over, instead of pumping a bunch of money so Afghanistan could rebuild, we just walked away.

Like, Afghanistan what? Do we have some kind of relationship with them? I don't remember.

And the disaster of that was that we basically made the Taliban.

A small, radical, well-known party, but not at the centre of political events.

Using this rising tide of anti-war feeling, Lenin begins to argue that the Bolshevik party must seize power in the name of the Soviets.

Marx is often said to be a determinist in the sense that he thought that socialism would come about fairly inevitably from the contradictions of capitalism.

Lenin was much more of a voluntarist, i.e. he believed in willpower, and Lenin didn't think that capitalism alone would create revolution.