"Please, Russians, don't wish Communism back. We'd lose our privileges." is the energy that type of article gives me.

Not that it swayed his voters away. Almost all of them said it was 'taken out of context' - the go-to right-wing excuse for people who like to deny reality.

It's why, before the world Left got defanged, Communists just used to help those people answer the ages-old question: "Is there a god?" - if you know what I mean.

Now a lot of people who call themselves communists or socialists want to do things 'right', even if it means being nothing more than doomed moral victors and this allowed the rise of these people.

It never ceases to amaze me how most Westernized folk are completely unable to go without comparing things to fiction. I suppose it's the consequence of both propaganda masquerading as entertainment plus a society that is so unattractive to most of its people that they rely on escapism when not slaving away for some bourgeouis' sake.