Russia's Putin calls for Stalin-style "leap forward"

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NOVO-OGARYOVO, Russia (Reuters) - Russia needs a "leap forward" to rejuvenate its sprawling defense industry, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday, harkening back to the ambitious industrialization carried out by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin in the run-up to World War Two. "We should carry out the same powerful, all-embracing leap forward in modernization of the defense industry as the one carried out in the 1930s," Putin told his Security Council, without mentioning Stalin by name. ...




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Well here we go, once again that great race of people called on to spill their blood and have their flesh torn on the machinery of another tsar for imperialist expansion. And Putins ego as well I suspect.
 
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