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To: BringBackMyHUAC
...the real death of Communism will be accompanied by mass trials (a la Nuremburg) to bring the Communist elite to justice.

You sound like Bukovksiy:

...After any plane crash, train derailment, or industrial accident, experts conduct analyses and seek to determine the culpability of anyone who had the slightest connection with what occurred. Likewise with crime: in a lawful society, even petty offenses are subject to investigation, judgment, and punishment, and serious offenses all the more so. War crimes? The embers in Bosnia had not yet cooled before an international tribunal was established to look into the atrocities committed in that conflict.

Only the USSR has been given a special dispensation. What happened there was a catastrophe that affected practically every country in the world, wasted hundreds of billions of dollars, took scores of millions of lives, and nearly brought about global destruction, and yet no one, no one, has been brought to account. Communism has collapsed, but the man (for example) who was in charge of executing thousands of captive Polish officers in the Katyn forest during World War II is in Moscow, living out his years on a pension. Similarly alive and well are Daniil Kopelyansky, the state-security officer who interrogated Raoul Wallenberg, and General Pavel Sudoplatov, the organizer of Trotsky’s assassination in Mexico.

Three criminals: neither Poland, nor Sweden, nor Mexico has sought the extradition of any of them.

On his own admission, former KGB general Oleg Kalugin planned the murder, by poisoned umbrella, of the Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov in London in 1978. Kalugin even wrote about the incident not long ago in the Mail on Sunday, a popular British tabloid, under the provocative headline, "I Organized Markov’s Execution." Yet, although Kalugin travels frequently abroad, promotes his memoirs, and gives interviews to the press, and although the Markov case is still open, it seems never to have entered anyone’s head to prosecute him.


9 posted on 06/12/2005 11:54:25 AM PDT by struwwelpeter
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To: struwwelpeter
==You sound like Bukovksiy

Don't know a whole lot about Bukovksiy other than what I have read (which isn't much). Unfortunately, Bukovskiy seems to treat Andrei Sakharov as a genuine Soviet dissident, which he was not. Sakarov helped pave the way for the phony collapse of Communism IMO.
13 posted on 06/12/2005 12:24:17 PM PDT by BringBackMyHUAC
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