@Sweetsound, I began watching this, and found it impossible to continue . . . we will never know for sure what went on in the former Soviet Union, but the present-day Russians' hesitation to challenge authority could be based on racial memories of cruelties experienced by their relatives, stories told. - We do have the death statistics for Stalin's rule - the latest estimate of which is 60 million - so yes, some of this could be true. I had to stop when that old old lady with that high-pitched voice was telling the story of her son's death and how she dragged a body out just so she could get near his grave.
I am not sure I want to spoil my night with those night mares. After all these poor b......ds are dead and gone, they are beyond suffering. There is enough suffering going on among the now living . . . .
The Bolshevik leadership were just as cruel to one another - Trotsky was assassinated by someone sent over to Mexico, after previous assassination attempts had failed.
I have my doubts as to just one group of people being communists (bolsheviks) - fact is, many of those in leadership positions around the world now are mentally abnormal - we already know that from history. . . . and having quite recently (2 nights ago) watched how Putin intimidated fully-grown men just by the theater of his power games and just a look and a voice, there must be some punishments in place, we will never know about in the West.
Having read a fair bit of Sci-Fi in my youth, I am a bit concerned about crazy people getting into power and turning our Western democracies, which are rather delicate flowers, and unusual in the history of men, into tyrannies and acting out their sick ideas.
Re my experience with Jewish people: it has been good, my now deceased daughter (and the youngest one, too) had two wonderful and adoring Hungarian-Jewish music teachers, and I will be forever grateful to them. Neither of them was particularly religious!
Anyway, enough - not really suited to this thread. Go well Taurisk
