[SuperLuminal]

I’m sure that there are several states in the U.S. that would gladly pay lots for V.L.’s statue to be relocated to their statehouse or a university...

[GoldenState_Rose]

To put it bluntly, former communists have no interest in discussing the past.

But do we, in the West, remember the Soviet past any better?

For if we forget the Gulag, sooner or later we will forget our own history too. Why did we fight the Cold War, after all? Was it because crazed right-wing politicians, in cahoots with the military-industrial complex and the CIA, invented the whole thing and forced two generations of Americans to go along with it? Or was there something more important happening?

- Anne Applebaum