This is a comment to a Washinton post artical. I thought it was so good i had to post it. ptrckdaly  11/10/2017 3:33 AM EST  Thank you for this piece. It has done wonders for my health.   I underwent surgery recently. I have been devouring history, especially as it pertains to WWI and the Cold War, during my recovery (By the way, Anne, you forgot to mention how the Russian Revolution started from an International Women’s Day demonstration in Petrograd on March 8, 1917. Also, you seem to have left out how many millions of Russians were being sent, unarmed in some cases, to the Front to die in gruesome fashion because the monarchies of the world demanded it).  One downside of my surgery, not to be too personal, is that I have been "blocked up."  Anyway, a friend sent me this article and I read it immediately. Within minutes of completing it, I was able to "purge my system." The following line did the trick, "...post-war Western conservatives have all been dedicated to representative democracy, religious tolerance, economic integration and the Western alliance" (The democratically-elected governments that CIA-backed, military coups overthrew in The Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Chile, and Iran, to name a few, might differ with you on that. Also, Haitian rice farmers, who saw their economic livelihoods crater as a result of Bill Clinton's trade policies, might disagree with your concept of economic integration).   Despite my joy of being able to go number two, I was heartbroken to learn I did not have any TP. It had been a long time since my last movement. Fortunately, I had this article. (The line "Get your weapons ready, because these people want you and your children to bleed and die in the cause of civilizational renewal," as it relates to Trump's alt-right without even referencing the common Neo-Liberal push for perpetual war, as evidenced HRC's stated policy agenda for regime change of foreign governments that have NEVER attacked us, made my choice simple). Anyway, disaster averted.  Thank you, Mrs. Applebaum, for helping with my constipation and the paper to clean myself. the link to the piece. by Anne Applebaum  https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/bolshevism-then-and-now/2017/11/06/830aecaa-bf41-11e7-959c-fe2b598d8c00_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.76d8b2ca00d3