Watch yourself, Arlow! You're closing in on the "who do I love more, Buck or Arlow" question! \:D You don't, perchance, Mambo or Tango, do you? \:D

Gerg, If memory serves the new Duma(?) endorsed Lenin at the 1st Revolutionary Congress, but I'd have to re-check it. Interesting point, though. I might counter it with the old expression about electing Communists. (One man; One vote: Once!)

(How's about Mugabe in Zimbabwe,(Rhodesia to you unrepenent racists! \:D )? What a commie load he turned out to be, as an example!

While Lenin and his gang were forced to fight the White Russians and the foreign interventionists after the revolution, the worst Soviet oppression did'nt really begin until Stalin took the reigns of power. Hence, the murder/starving/deportations of the Kulaks, the beginnings of the Soviet Gulags, (although the Czars had their version of the Gulags, as well), the miltary purges of the '30's., etc. ad nauseum.

PS., Respectfully, I never said, nor implied, that you brought up that nasty "N" word business. You asked if anyone else was knowledgabe, about "Nazi" history and depredations. I am: my paternal relatives in "le Francais" paid a heavy cost to German occupation in both World Wars; my maternal relatives in Slovenia were wiped out by the Titoists in/after World War II.

By the by, once again if memory serves, Hitler was elected by pluralality(?), rather than majority vote, but I'd have to re-check that, as well. And there was always an active, if ineffective, German internal resistance to Hitler, and his ilk.

(I just re-checked it; Hitler never got more than 37% of the popular vote in his run for Chancellor; 67% of the people were against him. Reckon there's a lesson there, somewhere!)
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