ETL,
Thanks for the ping and links. I found it interesting how many ignored that remark by Putin.
I could not get the link to the article by Beichman to work, but found this one:
http://www.hoover.org/publications/hoover-digest/article/6632
(It looks like the web site was reorganized.)
Also I found an online link for the Black Book of Communism:
http://archive.org/details/TheBlackBookofCommunism10
Read online or download free
Thanks very much for the alert on the link no longer working, a new link for it, and for the link to the book download. I’ll most definitely add it to my collection.