"Why nationalize industry when you can nationalize the people?": -- Adolf Hitler - (1889-1945) Source: quoted in Robert N. Proctor, The Nazi War on Cancer (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999), p. 74.
What kind of nonsense is this? Venezuela can't even feed her own people properly without basically taking over and nationalizing major industries, showering for less than three minutes and squashing freedom of speech. Now he wants a space program?
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Over $5 bln arms contracts with Venezuela in the works - Putin:
"Our delegation has just returned from Venezuela, while the aggregate volume of contracts could exceed $5 billion," Putin said at a meeting with Russian defense industry officials. He said the figure includes a $2.2 billion Russian loan to Venezuela. Ref. Source 8
Venezuela : State seizes supermarket chain:
The Venezuelan President, Nicolas Maduro, has ordered the takeover of a private supermarket chain by the state food agency.. This week, soldiers and government workers were sent to branches of a large supermarket and pharmacy chain to supervise sales. Ref. Source 7