About as many bottles as my President (Reagan) would have before quoting Solzhenitsyn.
After all freedom is always sobering.
You seem to have fallen forever in the cold war never realizing the true goal, just always seeking an enemy. In case you forgot communism was and is the enemy, not the poor people held in captivity to it.
To refer to the Russian people as communists would be akin to referring to the Germans forever as Nazis (I would hope that you wouldn’t do this as most of them are good and decent). For that matter you probably view all people in the United States as Monarchists (British back in the times of the Revolutionary War), after all we were once under the crown.
The times have changed and the Russian people are free. Only a person that does not honor liberty would forever hold others back in subjugation.
“To refer to the Russian people as communists would be akin to referring to the Germans forever as Nazis”
You dont get around too much, do you.
http://www.newstatesman.com/200707240002