You know what I mean--'Fight Communism,' 'Power to the People,' 'Dixie, Love It or Leave It,' 'If You Don't Like the Police, the Next Time You're in Trouble, Call a Hippie.' And, as usual, they made me laugh--or, anyway, smile.
Here we present a timeline of the milestone moments in the 100-year history of Communism in power, a record of a movement that sought worldwide revolution, industrialization on an epic scale, and the creation of a new form of society.
But if the war was make-believe, what were the Soviets doing when they tried to bring Communism to power in France and Italy, when they deported or liquidated "bourgeois" intellectuals in Eastern Europe, when they financed antidemocratic forces everywhere in order to conquer or cow hearts and minds?
Education is another arena in which anti-communism yields power.
One might add that Lenin once defined Communism as "Soviet power plus electrification of the whole country".
When communism lost its power as a rallying cry, they turned to extreme nationalism, which offered an equally effective way to wield power over the scared and confused.
Having lost much of its political clout and theoretical power, communism no longer represents an appealing alternative to capitalism.
Even while communism still held power in Europe, he had more in common with it than many of his supporters admit.
On the now decapitated plinth was, in Ukrainian, the famous slogan "Communism = Soviet Power plus Electrification of the Whole Country", while his gargantuan hand gestured to the nearby Dnieper dam, one of the largest ever constructed.
In the 1980s, when I covered the Soviet Union, we used to joke about the primitive state of Russian advertising, which was largely confined to billboards with stirring slogans like "Communism Equals Soviet Power Plus Electrification of the Entire Country".
By then, the enemy was communism, and air power advocates like General Curtis LeMay were calling for the creation of a strategic air command (SAC) made up of long-range bombers armed with city-busting thermonuclear weapons.
