He said he was. Collectivised farms and factories and all. And they killed-off the aristocracy and destroyed the middleclass, always a good thing in creating a truly socialist, classless society.

The American left adored the USSR until after Stalin died and the truth of his governance, and the perfidity of the American left and especially the NY Times, were revealed.

Now the American left tries to change its own history. That's fine with me, go for it. The more the leftists ignore their own history, the more they will damn themselves to repeat it.

And of course, the other late great leftists of the past century who collectivised lives, lets not forget Mao and Pol Pot. You gotta love those guys, sacrificing lives for the greater good of humanity.

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