The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There was a huge lack of freedom in communist regimes, but at least they had humanity at the center of their thinking.
And also they were absolutely brilliant in one way, you know: they knew how effective is not to punish somebody who is guilty; what Communist Party members could afford to do was mind-boggling: they could do practically anything they wanted - steal, you know, lie, whatever.
He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.
Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around you.
The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other.
There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era.
I ask every Communist individually to set an example, by deeds and without pretense, a real example worthy of a man and a Communist, in restoring order, starting normal life, in resuming work and production, and in laying the foundations of an ordered life.
It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.
Of course, I know everything that happens in Russia. But even at the most dangerous moment or the most negative moment now, it's still 10 times better than what it was in the communist state.
Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.