On Jan 4, 11:27*am, ian batten wrote:
On Jan 4, 11:19*am, Lüko Willms wrote:

* *You have to discuss this issue not with me. I only point to what Herr
Schnell is always writing. Take issue with him, not me. I make no claims
about the situation of the Berlin railway workers, Herr Schnell does.
And I report what he says. So discuss the issue with Herr Schnell and
not with me.

I'm starting to remember why it's a waste of time arguing with
tankies. *Their basic premise --- that the Sovbloc 1945--1989 was a
workers' paradise --- is so obviously deranged that they can't be seen
to say so in terms, and indeed start calling people "liars" (while
demanding apologies when called on it) when it's pointed out that
their arguments lead, inevitably, to that position. *But because they
believe it in their heart of hearts they get all upset when counter-
examples are quoted. *Which is why under all the bluster, they can't
provide simple answers to to simple questions like "Were workers in the DDR
in 1980 happy with their lot, and if so why did it req...

....uire a fence with guards to stop them fleeing?" If they say "yes,
they were happy" they get laughed at (and the fence and guards remain
unexplained), if they say "no, they were not" then they have cognitive
dissonance over their chosen economic system. It's the same reason
why they bluster and start calling people liars when asked about
Stalin's purges; most CP members refused to believe the Secret Speech
had actually happened.

Fortunately, with friends like Luko, the hard left don't need enemies,
and their long-term electoral annihilation is an amusing side-show in
the dreary decline of the ever-splitting, ever-fighting groupuscles of
the former CP.

Let's see if he can reply without calling anyone a liar. No, I didn't
think so.

ian