Michelle Malkin compares the Russian attack on Georgia to the Soviet attack on Hungary 52 years ago. That was the subject of a fascinating James Michener book, The Bridge at Andau, that I read back in college. It was a perfect reminder of just how cruel and ruthless communists were, and still are today. Yes, I know the Soviet Union collapsed 17 years ago, but their current president is former KGB, and today’s headlines lead one to wonder how many former communists are still in positions of power in the current Russian government. After all, free nations typically don’t attack other free nations.
We’ve faced such a situation before, and we chose, I think, quite poorly. We promised too much, and we delivered too little.
In 1956, Hungary was a member of the Warsaw Pact. After Stalin’s death, when Krushchev came to power, there was a bit of liberalization in Russia and Hungary picked up on that. In fact, they decided, spontaneously, to have a revolution and kick the commies out. Which they did, smashing the statue of Stalin in the process*, until Russia said “oh no you didn’t” and marched back in on November 4th and took it over again, with much repression and execution in their wake.
You summed it up perfectly by pointing out that democracies do not blow each other to kingdom come. We must defend democracy and liberty.
I ran across your site through Michelle Malkin’s site.
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eric aka the Tygrrrr Express