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In my grade school we learned a lot about Russia, about how they were our enemy and communism was pure evil.  How did that work out for us?

I was open to the idea of communism, in it’s purest form, but as I got older I realized it’s pretty hard to implement in a pure form. But I think I knew that from the beginning since Marx and Lenin addressed the difficulty of starting a communist country in a capitalist world. There’s always that temptation to give up your equality for a little bit of hedonism. So I can put those younger aspirations down to naivete.

What I didn’t see coming was this sudden shift even by people older than me to trusting Russia, admiring Russia or at least not considering them a threat. It’s not even a lack of awareness of history, it’s ignoring what they just did last year or last week. The people who are doing that now were the same people who were so worried that the hippies and socialists were leading us toward a Russian take over.