"In short, the world without the Soviet Union has not become safer, more just or more stable," – Mikhail Gorbachev, The Nation. Ackerman screams:
I’m embarrassed as a liberal by this shit. The liberals I know — those of my generation, certainly — have no nostalgia for an empire whose chief characteristics were slaughter and mass immiseration. The Nation would rather be Soviet Union Truthers.
The Dish 