30 April 2013

Antique heroes

Rico wonders if, after enough years have passed, whether the Russians will ever look back fondly on the Old Bolsheviks as we do our Founding Fathers: as quaint revolutionaries who overthrew a tyrant, but whose time has come and gone. (We may have George Washington on the quarter, but they probably won't put Lenin back on the ruble...) They may, of course, view them as we do Jefferson Davis and the other Confederates; failed revolutionaries who didn't chose the right side...

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