Jozef Staus Jozef Staus, the refugee from communist Czechoslovakia no longer commie, no longer even Czechoslavakia who built JDS Uniphase into one of the world's most prominent telcos, announced his retirement.
A backlash seeded itself across military websites, and I got plenty of hate mail, ranging from epithets like "commie", to, randomly enough in this context, "lezzie".
In other instances, just minutes after wrapping up an appearance, my inbox would be flooded with choice feedback from his fans: "Commie," "Nigger," "Buckwheat," "Fag".
The facts of my crappy Cold War existence -- my parents' doting but harsh child-rearing, the cries of "Commie!" from Queens yeshiva kids -- are still potent enough to quash the sentimentality I might indulge in as an older memoirist.
And the effect is strengthened by what Hedwig, who calls herself "a Commie from East Berlin," has demanded of the forlorn Yitzhak until the final heavy-metal chords introduce another transformation.
The K.G.B. agent Irina Spalko, played by Cate Blanchett, takes off from Lotte Lenya's slit-eyed Commie menace in "From Russia with Love".
Red Dawn Chris Hemsworth fends off a commie invasion – from North Korea.
This widely despised monstrosity from the bad old Commie days was completed in 1972 after an entire section of the Old Town had been bulldozed to make way for its glory.Robert La BuaSydneyA rush to judgment?SIR – Your stance on the allegations of a massacre in Haditha lacked the objective and reasoned quality I expect from The Economist ("The massacre in Haditha", June 3rd).
Some poor kid was expecting to receive a new iPod (Touch or Classic not specified) but instead received what appears to be a viral message from either a filthy commie or Adbusters.
Benny continued: "Here is a collection of early Commie propaganda from Cuba and later pop-art, can you see the similarity?" Then comes a slew of images of Fidel Castro, Cuba, Nikita Khrushchev, propaganda posters and, for good measure, the cover of The Communist Manifesto.
