Zizek on Havel

[Brad De Long]

>Letter from Noam Chomsky to Alexander Cockburn, March 1, 1990, reprinted in
>Cockburn's _The Golden Age Is in Us_.
>
>"Dear Alex,
>...It's also unnecessary to point out
>to the half a dozen or so sane people who remain that in comparison to the
>conditions imposed by US tyranny and violence, East Europe under Russian
>rule was practically a paradise.

Is this supposed to be a comparison of Western Europe to Eastern Europe?

Brad Delong