Nyet!
Oct 13, 2009 Oppression, Orient, Past is prologue
Uncle Joe
The late-evening ruling was a rare victory for Stalin’s critics in their fight against efforts to rehabilitate the dictator, who according to the rights group Memorial ordered the deaths of at least 724,000 people during a series of purges that peaked in the late 1930s. But defendants said that having the case even make it to court was evidence of a chilling tendency to question the dark side of Soviet history.
Well, you can’t have everything, comrades. It’s all you can do sometimes just to un-make an omelet.
