[lbo-talk] Gorbachev calls for rehabilitating royal family as victims of political reprisal

[Shane Mage]

>Gorbachev calls for rehabilitating royal family as victims of 
>political reprisal
>MOSCOW. Dec 11 (Interfax) - Former president of the USSR Mikhail 
>Gorbachev believes that Russia's last emperor, Nicholas II, and his 
>family, who were executed under a decision from the Soviet 
>authorities, should be rehabilitated as soon as possible....

This is, of course, the same character who, when he still
was holding power and pretending to be a Communist,
refused to reverse the expulsion of Leon Trotsky from
the CPSU, the Moscow Trial verdict against him, or the
decree abolishing his Soviet citizenship.  Now he comes
clean about his esteem for Nicholas The Bloody (whom LT,
by the way, wanted tried for his crimes, which were far,
far worse than those for which Charles I and Louis XVI
lost their heads).

Shane Mage

"Thunderbolt steers all 
things."                                                         

Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64