[boxlunch]

May we never forget.

[annalex]

May we, first, know. The evil of the Soviet system is rarely talked about now that the Cold War is over. Before that, perhaps understandably, it was evil because it was the adversary, not because it simply was evil. Recall how there were gasps of incomprehension when Reagan called the Soviet Union for what it was?

But it was evil. This scrap of officialese is evil. Let us learn.