What follows is more than mere speculation. My opinions here are based on many years of face-to-face experiences with Marxist totalitarianism, but as known by its victims and not its camp followers. This analysis is also based on almost 50 years of gauging Marxist systems…
Category: Russia
Without Attribution
We’ve all stolen words from others and failed to give them credit for it. Joe Biden did it all the time as far back as the 80s, over thirty years ago. Still does it in fact, as recently as this…
The Nature of the Dark Side
The Private Life is Dead Remember Commander Strelnikov in the film classic, “Dr Zhivago” (1965)? He was the intellectual communist who had turned into a Red military commander in the civil war that followed the October Revolution. His comment “the private…
Chernobyl
My wife and I watched the 5-episode mini-series, “Chernobyl” two evenings this past weekend. I was better than good, and has as much relevance today as it would have had had anyone actually known what went on back in the…
“I Hope I Get a Good Mafia”
That was actually said in the early days of the crumbling Soviet Union. The speaker was a young man from the Caucasus who had staked out a street corner in Moscow where he planned to set up a kiosk to sell magazines and newspapers, notions and…