Hear, hear. One of the best posts I’ve ever come across on FR. You’re a great writer.
Your comment on Eastern Europeans is quite interesting. I’ve noticed the same ‘soulless’ disposition in recent Cuban émigrés to the US, the ones who have lived most of their lives in Castro’s gulag. Humorless, nasty, rude bunch, who care about nothing else but money. In fact, I think I’ve coined a term for them, ‘NeoCubans’.
Perplexingly, they tend to have a positive view of the Castro regime and tend to vote Dem. They are quite different from the initial waves of Cubans that fled the revolution.
Communism does destroy the soul, after all, that is the point.
Yes. That is the horror of it.