Reply #64: "I have only seen two threads where you have posted and..... [View All]

[NorthELiberal]

both of your posts were reactions to the words communism & Castro"

Then you haven't read other posts I made during the week..... they are not only on Communism and Castro. I didn't make any assumption you are Pro-Castro....... I am just curious why a few comments about Communism or Castro on my end (because I usually start with only a passing comment intended to be brief) cause a minor uproar....... There are 1 billion plus people who suffered under Communism and yet many people here seem to view it exclusively through the effects of Mccarthyism. If you meet a Ukranian who had a parent and relatives sent to a GULAG when Stalin tried to forcibly collectivize farms in the 1930's and he tells you "Communism was no good" are you going to call him a Mccarthyist? He may not even know who Mccarthy was. Mccarthy went after, what, 200 people....... which is bad...... but by the 1950's Communists in Russia and China had already killed millions. By not acknowledging the bigger picture (I am not talking specifically about you, I mean people in general) and only viewing it through the effects of Mccarthyism you are in a way behaving just like the right winger who has a US-centric view on everything, albeit in a different way.