[familyop]

"To be specific, they were Trotskyites."

Too many readers forget or are ignorant of the bad and the ugly who came before the Russian revolution and after the decline of the Soviet Empire. Even those before the Soviet years used censorship and brutal tactics to keep their opposition down.

Russian politics remind us of the Spaghetti westerns of the late-60s (no good guys). Fascists aren't conservatives, either, as they require big, socialist governments to execute their wishes.

During the late 1800s and early 1900s, our ancestors allowed hordes of anti-American southern and eastern Europeans to drag themselves onto our shores and let them stay. Now some of their hardest hearted descendents try to brainwash our population to turn our USA into Old Europe. The problem for them is that all of their writings have something hysterical in common--Buchananisms.

[Schweinhund]

yeah and they had uniforms. you never see neocons in russian uniforms. point made, article dismissed.

i mean this guy is comparing neocons and trotzkyites by an aspect of foreign politics. shouldn't you try to dismiss THAT point?

[NutCrackerBoy]

Too many readers forget or are ignorant of the bad and the ugly who came before the Russian revolution and after the decline of the Soviet Empire. Even those before the Soviet years used censorship and brutal tactics to keep their opposition down.

In tsarist Russia, the great Fyodor Dostoevsky twice did time in prison - serious time - for speech crimes. The first time he was in with one of the many progressive groups. The second time was after he had evolved into a "conservative."