>>> John Thornton
Charles Brown wrote:
> "The statue was controversial and remains so -- especially to
Russian
> immigrants. It's as if someone erected a sculpture of a Klansman in
the
> deep South
>
> &&&
>
> More like someone put up a sculpture of John Brown in the deep South
>
> John Henry
I thought that was an odd analogy when I read it. I didn't quite get it, Lenin = Klansman? None of the Russian or Czech immigrants I know feel this way.
John Thornton
^^^^^^^
CB: Yep , the Klan was definitely anti- Bolshevik, and the Party was anti-Klan. Scratch a redbaiter and find a race hater.
In _The Great Debaters_ Denzel plays a Party member.