The Left's New Soviet Union

By Bruce Walker

The left never had much bad to say about the Soviet Union.  Leftist icons like Teddy Kennedy actually tried to get the Soviet Union to interfere in American presidential elections to keep Reagan from being re-elected – something conveniently forgotten by Democrats today. The Soviet Union was one of the most malicious and horrible empires in human history.  The Holodomor swallowed as many human lives as the Holocaust; the Gulag gobbled more souls than any system of concentration camps or slave labor camps in history.  The Soviet Union conspired with Nazi Germany to begin the Second World War and then worked tirelessly to assure Nazi victory up to the day of Operation Barbarossa........ The left, which excused or ignored every monstrous crime and every instance of gross interference in our domestic politics by the Soviets, now wishes to persuade us that Trump ought to react to Putin's Russia as Ronald Reagan did to the Soviet Union.  Trump should reject this approach and do what he has done all his life: get the best deal for America that he can with Russia........Read more