Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.
Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.
Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.
I feel sorry for many politicians we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.
As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.
But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder.