[dfwgator]

not presented as conflicting forces in a battle in which one order defeated another. Rather, tsars, Bolsheviks and later communists, are seen as a succession of “greats.”

You know, the Russians get it right.

We here in the West are obsessed with trying to put past history into a modern context, and it doesn't work. We just end up destroying our culture in the process. The Russians aren't making that mistake.

[Buckeye McFrog]

We here in the West are obsessed with trying to put past history into a modern context, and it doesn't work. We just end up destroying our culture in the process.

Exhibit A: The Stephen Foster Memorial Statue here in his hometown of Pittsburgh being torn-down because the imagery in his songs was "racist".

Foster lived from 1826 to 1864. I dare say NOBODY alive at that time held what we would consider racially enlightened attitudes in 2018.