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A distorted comparison.

                                http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/vladimir-putin-soviet-leader-joseph-stalin-was-no-worse-than-oliver-cromwell-9016836.html   Vladimir Putin: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin was no worse than Oliver Cromwell Russian President Vladimir Putin  A very inaccurate comparison from Putin. Stalin was an evil dictator who betrayed Lenin's revolution and established a military dictatorship which had and has, as much similarity with a socialist state as chalk does to cheese.      Cromwell on the other hand,and whether you like him or not, was responsible for creating the concept of Parliamentary democracy in the United Kingdom in place of the "dictatorship" of monarchs with their "divine right of Kings". It should always be remembered that many of the all...
https://groups.google.com/group The following text is an extract from a "Google Groups" item on Royal Affairs. For the full text of this story just click the link. It is item which deserves a much wider audience than it will actually get.    "In 1956 the Queen discovered that Prince Philip was having an affair with Princess Alexandra. She banned him from her bed and the marriage ended in the conventional sense. In his book 'Queen Elizabeth II, a woman who is not amused' Nicholas Davies writes at page 169: It is extraordinary that an affair involving two members of the royal family, one of them married to the Queen, has remained a secret for so many years. To the nation and their beloved Commonwealth, the royals have purported to set an example for all their subjects. Yet, the Queen's consort, the man married to the Head of the Church of England whose views on adultery were unwaveringly strict, has been living an adulterous life for most of the 45 ...