Friday, July 17, 2009

hammer & sickle


Nikita Khrushchev [1894-1971], banging his shoe, hated putting things in writing because he couldn't spell.

"Communism was an impractical mishmash of ideas, imposed by squabbling zealots that promised much, delivered little and cost millions of lives. It is striking that 36 countries at one time or another adopted this system and that five—Cuba, Laos, North Korea, Vietnam and the biggest of them all, China—still pay lip service to it."
- Economist Magazine, July 4th 2009