>>> sokol at jhu.edu 10/09/00 10:54AM >>>
At 12:09 AM 10/9/00 +0100, Chris wrote:
>Tonight it looks as if the former communist, now social democratic
>President, Kwasniewski, has won re-election in Poland by an outright
majority.
>
>The socialists appear to have made further progress in Albania, despite
>protests of fraud.
>
Why is that surprising? Soviet-style communism even with all its faults was the best thing that happened in that part of the world since the introduction of toilet paper - an incomaparbly better alternative to petty-bourgeois nationalism that thrived there between the two world wars, or mafia capitalism sponsored by Mad Albraight and her EU henchmen.
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CB: Right on , Wojtek. And you have direct experience.