On Feb 29, 4:32*am, Denny wrote:
I'm sitting here watching Dr. Zhivago again. Remember that the
Communist Party in Russia was started by people who wanted to do good
and the best for everyone (doing the whole Robin Hood thing). Good
intentitions are clearly not sufficient.

-robert

Unfortunately, historical fact do not bear out that hollywood
fantasy... Lenin, Trostky, et. al., caused and led a civil war that
killed and/or starved millions - including murdering the Romanovs
right down to helpless children - so they could be in power, and
Stalin was a thug who murdered his way to power, and then murdered
tens of millions of Russians to keep that power ... *Good intentions
were never an issue...

Absolute power always corrupts but millions of Russians didn't support
the reds because they wanted Trostky to be powerful. They honestly
believed in the left-wing agenda, that society should elevate the
poorest on the backs of the richest and that taking property is ok in
the name of the good of the masses. Those intentions were good and
those people didn't know any better. I'm not sure what today's left-
wingers excuse is though (perhaps they missed history).

-Robert