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>. Once the heroes of leftist-"liberals" become thoroughly exposed and discredited, such that even the "liberals" cannot openly admire them anymore, they are grudgingly removed from their pedestals. The fact is that most "liberals" ADORED Stalin over the decades that he was grinding the Soviet citizenry under his heel, executing his own officers in purges, murdering millions of Ukrainians by starvation because they resisted collectivization, and shipping millions of his own people off to slave labor in the gulags. > Now "liberals" don't adore him anymore. It's no longer politically correct to do so. They adore Castro instead.< Right you are, Neil. Throughout the early 20th century the American and European leftists praised Lenin and Stalin to no end. The core of the leftist movement that still remains today is made up of the remnanats of the old communist movement. Greenpeace, Earth Liberation Front, all the various WTO protest groups are simply the old subversive commies at work.
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