Doesn't this contradict your repeated assertion that the Soviet period was a net plus for Eastern Europe?
--- Wojtek Sokolowski <swsokolowski at yahoo.com> wrote: By contrast, the "true" left has at best NOTHING to show if one counts generously, and quite a dismal track record if one wants to pin the Stalinist, Maoist, and Pol-Potist attrocities as well as minor criminal activities of the Bader-Meinhoff gang or the Red Army Faction thugs on it.
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