Kazan/HUAC

[Brad De Long]

>Compared to fascism and royalism, and
>the immense corruption of the current
>democracy [in Greece], Bulgarian-style
>politics would not have been much worse or even
>worse at all...
>
>Nick Mamatas

I take it that the answer to my question is "yes": that you do believe
that, from the standpoint of the people's livelihood and happiness, by and
large it didn't matter which side of the Iron Curtain a European country
wound up on after World War II.