We will remember them.

This is obviously rubbish. Blood has already, clearly, been shed - it is on the snow. I guess that what is meant is that bloodshed will only come from the right if the left does not reciprocate in kind. That the revolutions success does not depend upon the left so reciprocating. I am not so sure.

Could it be that the altruism of the many enables the egotism of the few?

Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail - Abby Innes

It is not cynicism, it is not a mistake, it is not a short term political play - he is a very unpleasant right wing nut job who wants Russia, and autocracy, to win.

This aethiest anarcho-communist does not! But... point taken.

If the big powers always won the USA would have had no problems in Vietnam or Afghanistan.

The whole world is crazy right now. Many, many of us apreciate your imput Kate. Please continue in your important work. Of course if you need a break I am sure that people will understand.

To be honest I would characterise the current government as, at best, centre right.

I guess that this was on his mind when he sent Cuban conscripts to fight against the Eritrean push for independence.

Well said.

Nor, in spite of the language it used, was the Soviet Union.

Authoritarianism is the syphilis of the left. I do not think that some of the comrades have noticed that the Russians do not even claim to be left wing anymore.

He makes me physically sick.

Be good if he had given us some dates - for the moment they seem to be dying very well fed and in obscene luxury.

There was that strife in the 1860's