people there, but it's actually based on 10 commandments. And communism is mentioned in two of the 12. And the rest of it is about taking care of your community, about one for all and all for one, about mutual respect within the family and caring for the children, about modesty and personal and public affairs. I mean, not terrible stuff. Now, of course, didn't necessarily have anything to do with what actually was going on, which I guess is somewhat of the topic of today's conversation as it applies to where we are today. But the principles, the ideology itself, it was not like, let's go and kill some people. It's the Soviet Union is the, I mean, we were told is the beacon of freedom for all progressive mankind. Yeah. Well, I actually, I wondered to what degree a lot of people alive today have really no concept of the Soviet Union at all, right? Like for many Americans, they had an image that was provided to them by the American media. But today it's for most people, it's ancient (11/96)
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