And your point is - - ? That is to say, exactly which parts of Mr. Elegant's story do you deem false? The real urban legend is that the old soviet union was anything other than a cabal of murderous commie vermin. Walter Duranty, Lincoln Steffens, Lillian Hellman, and their ilk are dead or walking dead. And their soulmates in our media and so-called groves of academe have got a difficult problem these days. Something called the internet, where the truth will always prevail.