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Originally Posted by upthecreek
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Does anyone else see the irony in this lawsuit? For a substantial part of the 20th century the Democrat party (including the 33rd Vice President of the United States) was sympathetic to Stalin and the Soviet Union. I could fill three pages with quotes of U.S. leftists praising the Soviet system as a glorious contribution to the future of mankind, never mind the gulags, the famines, and the wholesale murders of dissidents. And, no surprise here, the New York Times did its duty, as well: its Moscow correspondent, Walter Duranty, won the Pulitzer in 1932 for his glowing reports of life under communism. He denied the Ukranian mass starvation by famine ever happened.
Let's not forget, either, the 1983 KGB memo uncovered after the fall of the Soviet Union in which Ted Kennedy proposed a media tour by Yuri Andropov in an attempt to politically damage Ronald Reagan (a fierce anti-communist) on foreign policy.
And while we're at it, recall the 1984 "Dear Comandante" letter written by 10 Democratic congressman to Daniel Ortega in the Soviet client state of Nicaragua; the letter criticized Reagan's policy toward Nicaragua while completely ignoring the violence of the Sandinista commies.
This lawsuit whining about the Russians is just too rich.
