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Friday, July 3, 2009 12:00 AM

The un-American way of life

A controversial new history of Communism suggests that most everything we think we know about it is wrong
By Andrew O'Hehir

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  • Thursday, July 2, 2009 06:55 PM

    Oh, Puh-leeeeeeze!

    Gawd. How mind numbing an explication can be given?

    After recovering from my post-article-reading catatonia, I am moved only to say that there was NOTHING revealed about communism/Communism that I was wrong about in my understanding.

    That said, I suppose it is fashionable among the hopeless liberals who long for that era in which Western Freedom and Eastern Communism clashed to wish that somehow it hadn't worked out as it did.

    It is surprising that these same nostalgics don't have a similar disposition, emotionally speaking, regarding jihadistic Islam.

    How totally NOT interesting.

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