UPDATE: Some former Octoberists need to apologise, says one former 'Cambridge Bolshevik' in The Times -- and many of course, still embracing the authoritarian urge, are are now warmists ...
"Bolshevism and the Russian revolution may have disintegrated in ruins but the generation that raised its toast in the direction of the Kremlin 40 years ago has triumphed. Leninism has been defeated almost everywhere in the world, but the postwar generation of baby boomers who went so far left in the 1960s now control this country’s leading institutions. Their taste for totalitarian simplicities and weakness for millenarian terrors has been digested into modern feminism, environmentalism and global warming. Many remain absolutely unrepentant about their past because they have been so successful in the present...Read on. [Hat tip Marcus]
Much that I did in my youth can now make me shout aloud with shame; but not much is more mortifying than to think I once toasted mass murderers, torturers and totalitarian despots. How to explain it?
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Yes, gosh, these brave, brave Bolsheviks.
They were sooooooooooo brave they felt the need to brutally murder a 14 year old boy, Alexei, whom they considered (inexplicably) a threat to their regime!
I am sure when the news of this disgusting, despicable atrocity was declared...Mrs Lenin said to Mr Lenin something along the lines of "Vladimir, you murder children in cold blood...gosh, if you were a 'man' I would divorce you!"
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