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You can't bring yourself to admit that communism is a failed system...can you, Joe?
If one of my history students had ever handed in a paper with a statement like the one I highlighted I would have circled it in red pencil and asked "The Russians didn't think it was worth the "bother", Joe? Really? On what do you base that comment?"
Well, how about during the 1991 Coup, when the Communist Party and Soviet Military kidnapped Gorby, and Yeltsin and other Russians formed a human chain around the Duma and said, "Uh-uh"... (Or the Russian equivlent.)
Or the fact that a lot of those former Soviet Republics and Satellites have either retained the same Communist Party aparaticks or voted them back into Power.
Poland was happy to see the Russians go, but then they turned around and voted in the SLD (Socialist Labor Party) into power in 1995 when it was obvious Lech Walesa didn't know how to run the country.
Also, absolutely frightening a right wing mutant is out there teaching kids much of anything.