THE OCTOBER FIASCO

Moscow, November 7. Like every year on this day, hundreds of Russians lined up at the Red Square to visit the mausoleums, graves, and monuments honoring Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin.

It was on October 23, 1917 (according to the Julian calendar in use in Russia at the time), or November 7, 1917 (by the current Gregorian calendar) that Vladimir Lenin led his Bolshevik forces to take control of the Winter Palace.

And thus began the October Revolution in whose name the biggest fraud of the twentieth century was perpetrated. The fiasco that was the Soviet system brought brutal tyranny and deprivation to most of Eastern Europe. Generations suffered.

But people still line up…