This fact not only lies at the root of our problems with Russia and its ongoing geopolitical exploits in the Middle East and elsewhere, but also of our problems with communist China beyond economics.
It lies at the root of our dissonance with North Korea, in terms of how it thinks and operates, and in our dealings with numerous other spheres of significance both internationally *and* domestically.
Domestically: think the onslaught of secularism on the part of the cultural left and the resurgence of socialism's appeal among many young Americans. And figureheads on the right who buy the lie that Russia is truly "post-Soviet."
Reopen the Gulag and staff it with Illegal immigrants in our prisons. Free labor for Siberian development. Stand up to the ulterior motive Chinese.
Liberals are able to dismiss the evil of communism vs. Nazism because they can attribute the genocides to something other than communism—bad leadership. So Stalin was just a bad leader, not a communist, while Hitler was a Nazi, therefore bad by association. And to them, Nazism itself was bad because of the racism, not the socialism. So communism is just fine to them, while Nazism is not. They completely misunderstand both, however.
Actually, it took a bunch of neopagan mysticism pulled from the darkest heart of antichristian Europe working in the same foul ideological plot that the Terrors in France started tilling to make fascism as bad as communism....
Fascism is bad, don’t get me wrong, but without Nazism to make it worse it’s a pale shadow of communism’s inherent thuggishness. Like comparing the Mafia as shown in The Godfather movies to the drug cartels of reality.
Bkmrk.
I accept the judgement of Gulag survivor Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn over this guy and the Ukrainian propaganda rag that the article comes from.
“And figureheads on the right who buy the lie that Russia is truly “post-Soviet.”
I realize you may not be erudite, or have the discernment of age and experience, so I’ll try to edify you...and others who are reading.
Russians do not stand in queue for groceries
Russians have an unencumbered Christian church
There are no Russians in the Gulag
Russian student at university study what they wish, and
Once graduated, work where they will
Russians live where they wish
Russia has elections which are blessed by the UN
Russians own homes, cars and farms
The Soviet Communist party is defunct
That is “post Soviet” to any thinking person. Of course very few despicable NeoConservatives have ever been accused of thinking.
You would do well to seek new mentors.
For every American Serviceman killed in WWII, how many Soviet Servicemen gave their lives?
With which side did Ukraine ally themselves?
Yeah...