Just a few funny straws in the wind. A friend has just returned from Spain. He says that tens of thousands of Russian young men have turned up. Meanwhile on this morning´s ferries to Helsinki a huge … (View Post)

Yes, and for different fractions of the same party to test their strengths. STV is a pretty good system and fits with the Westminster tradition pretty well. (View Post)

Except the 1) 1990 level was Soviet statistics and not accurate 2) in 1990 you could not buy very much anyway, because the choice of goods was minimal. Communism rationed goods by availability, not b… (View Post)

I can think of no country that welcomed Communism. Many, including the Baltic and Ukraine, fought guerilla wars for nearly a decade after the end of WWII, Romania and Bulgaria also had resistance mov… (View Post)

Part of the problem is that there has been no moral recovery from Stalin, who really was just as evil as Hitler. Instead of atoning for the crimes of Stalinism and Communism, Putin has mostly repeate… (View Post)