Jack Chambers,
FYI? An American would not have referred to WWII as “the Great Patriotic War 1941-45″ as you did. That’s not your only giveaway that you’re not an American but I’ll give you that one for free because I believe in 2nd chances. And there would be greater limits to how tender you are on behalf of the Russians. You can go ahead and try to persuade us that you’re a native leftist suckup if you want but that will only serve to diminish any respect we might have for what you have to say.

In that light statements like “I am, of course, an American.” and “I was a Republican all my life until all this happened,” coming from you merely highlight the fact that Marxists of any variety are the sort of people who would lie to themselves for practice. ^o^

“It was the Nazis who tried personifying their enemies (people they wanted to go after) as animals.”

Actually? That has been everybody from the Dawn of History. If I were sufficiently bored I could dig up some choice quotes from the Russians in the past and prove by your “logic” that Stalin and Lenin were Nazis. So much for Stalin and Lenin! ^_~