[JimSEA]

History is what you make it to be. Here we go again. This bears little resemblance to the last 55 years as I have lived them.

Moscow had betrayed the world revolution

If only the revolution had remained pure, we would now be living in a workers paradise. As some other FR poster so aptly put it in another thread, "gag me with a plumber's helper".

[lepton]

If only the revolution had remained pure, we would now be living in a workers paradise. As some other FR poster so aptly put it in another thread, "gag me with a plumber's helper".

Well, it IS one way of looking at Moscow's tossing aside (as in not even bothering to try anymore) actual Communism for open totalitarianism within just a few years. I'd just call it "obvious failure".