However, when I read this to the kid, I will have to omit the part about Russians getting what they deserved, since some of her ancestors..."left skin on the sidewalk" there. Bodies in the river would be more nearly accurate. For the crime of having a higher education. The Russian people did not deserve Communist oppression. Most were in no position to fight it. Most, indeed, took it in the back.
Maybe we were lucky, Graymatter, in that England oppressed us somewhat less than the Communists oppressed the Russian people. Enough less that we were able to mount a revolution.
And maybe it wasn't luck. Maybe we just wanted freedom more than the Russian people did.
I don't know.
Because I don't know, I will modify the original statement to make the point that those who believed that Communism would work, received exactly what the laws of nature mathematically impose on anyone who fails, for any reason what-so-ever, to recognize them.
There is quite a bit of that original post that would have been edited to better reflect my true thoughts, but I wasn't given that opportunity. I hit Post, with the box unchecked, and instead of seeing a preview, it posted. It wouldn't have changed the intent one iota, but it would have been better worded so as to refine it.
What you read was a first draft, and whether the wording, as is, causes unnecessary pain or not, I have no way now to fix it.