I know a man who came here from Germany shortly after WWII.

He said that when the Soviet troops invaded Germany they were removing the light switches and taking them. They did not have electric lights at home and thought the switches would provide that. Good to see they have learned nothing since then.

When the left wing coupe in Russia failed in August 1991, I taped a remarkable segment of CBS News 48 Hours show. They were interviewing the foreign minister of the Federal Republic of Russia. They were eager to hear what he thought about what would happen next. But he had a message for the CBS newsmen that he insisted on communicating first. He said “We in Russia have always been told that the democracies of the West were our enemies. We know now that they were our best friends. The Soviet Union was not a union, it was an evil empire!”

All the CBS guys could do was giggle, and try to change the subject. They knew who had had called the USSR an Evil Empire. And they knew what they had said about Ronald Reagan, too.

I still have that tape, in case anyone wants a copy.