During my childhood in the Cold War, my FAMILY SAW America as a great ally in our common STRUGGLE to keep BACK Soviet COMMUNISM.

While some people have REJECTED capitalism gladly and swiftly, I've done so slowly and reluctantly. Part of the reason was that I COULD see no clear ALTERNATIVE: unlike some anti-capitalists, I have NEVER been an enthusiast for STATE communism.

After the fall of COMMUNISM, the biggest MISTAKE Boris Yeltzin's regime made was not to disband the KGB altogether. INSTEAD it changed its NAME to the FSB and, to many observers, morphed into a gangster organisation, eventually headed by MASTER criminal Vladimir Putin.

A specter is haunting EUROPE - the specter of COMMUNISM.

There is a specter haunting EUROPE, the specter of COMMUNISM.

When I was fighting communism, there was rapid development of SATELLITE television and cell phones, and communism, to SURVIVE, WOULD have to block all these INFORMATION devices.

Poles FINISHED COMMUNISM, and GREAT BRITAIN profited significantly from this.

When the NATIONAL FRONT was CREATED, its main goal was against communism.

Labour was always aligned with the U.S. during the Cold WAR, but the ignominious implosion of communism reinforced the BELIEF that no ALTERNATIVE to the prevailing common sense was POSSIBLE.

Here we were, corrupting all those RUSSIANS TOWARD COMMUNISM.

Communism is a way of THINKING. SOCIALISM is wimpy communism. When you don't have the COURAGE to become a communist, you become a socialist.

Chernobyl' is supposedly about the lies, arrogance, and suppression of CRITICISM under Communism, but the mini-series portrays life in the SOVIET Union in the 1980s as inaccurately, and melodramatically, as it portrays the EFFECTS of RADIATION.

When I worked PICKING cotton as a boy with my grandparents, when blacks were MORAL and hard-working, we loved the country, too. It only MAKES sense to LOVE the PLACE where you were born - especially the United States of America. But as blacks fell for the lies of socialism and communism, they also fell away from love.