Re: The History of Latvia

The Black Monk wrote:

> The five people didn't take over the US, they took over a plane with
> 92 people.  They established total control over it and did what they
> wanted with it, just as the small band of Bolsheviks established total
> control over Russia.  

This is one of the weirdest analogies 'your side' has ever presented in 
this forum (and that's saying a lot). Here's what you are comparing:

1) A few armed men hijack an aircraft with less than a hundred unarmed 
passengers and crew. The whole thing takes place in a confined space at 
an altitude of several kilometres. The purpose is to use the aircraft as 
a suicide bomb. The existence of crew and passengers is irrelevant. And 
it's all over in a matter of minutes.

2) A few thousand insurgents usurp power in the largest country on 
earth, a country with 170 million inhabitants. Having done this they 
don't blow themselves up with the rest of the place but manage to stay 
in charge for the next 74 years.

In the first case the outcome was certain from the very beginning: 
whatever crew and passengers might undertake, they (and the hijackers) 
would peril.

In the second case the leader (Lenin) and his helpers (the riflemen) 
were gone by 1924, but the whole thing rolled on and on with due 
assistance from the hijacked.