I have thought long and hard, but it is difficult to locate the exact point that the charade of Democracy became evident to the world. Of course there had been countless failures and embarrassments, but to locate the one point is a seemingly impossible task. If I had to pick a single point however, I think it might be the summer of 1936, when Stalin the Great held up a mirror to the world's democracies and they grew ashamed.
For they chose the wrong side of that war, and in so doing sowed the seeds of their own destruction just a few years later. But I get ahead of myself. I suppose you kids don't know much of that time. I will tell you that Stalin was quite the ladies man, and was beloved of all the people. His good deeds were legion, and not a week would go by without him saving the life of one damsel or another. I think I have a picture here of one such occaision, which was shortly before the Spanish War and the ugly business of the wicked Trotskyites:
Well, in those days a lot of people liked to think they knew better than us. You know how it is with backwards people. The Basque Republic used to be called Spain, and had a lot of squabbling folk. While most of them were like us, and favored the worker, there were others who wanted nothing more than to ride in fancy automobiles and wear diamond rings dug up by child laborers. They were called Fascists, and were pretty much like Capitalists, but meaner. They felt that they should tell all the little people what to do, and they didn't care whether you liked it or not. They were mean, ugly people and hated us Communists, since we were so much healthier and smarter and certainly saner than they.
People like that, they get to fighting over stupid stuff. And in Spain, these Fascists had decided to try and push around the working man. Well, they weren't going to put up with that! In July of that year their leader, Franco, declared from the Canary Islands a "State of War" for all of Spain. The workers met this threat gladly, as I'm sure you realized!
The first thing, the Regional Government of Catalonia, the Generalitat, decided to arm the people.
The policemen are our friends, and in that war they proved it as well. Here I have a picture of the police defending the workers.
For they chose the wrong side of that war, and in so doing sowed the seeds of their own destruction just a few years later. But I get ahead of myself. I suppose you kids don't know much of that time. I will tell you that Stalin was quite the ladies man, and was beloved of all the people. His good deeds were legion, and not a week would go by without him saving the life of one damsel or another. I think I have a picture here of one such occaision, which was shortly before the Spanish War and the ugly business of the wicked Trotskyites:

Well, in those days a lot of people liked to think they knew better than us. You know how it is with backwards people. The Basque Republic used to be called Spain, and had a lot of squabbling folk. While most of them were like us, and favored the worker, there were others who wanted nothing more than to ride in fancy automobiles and wear diamond rings dug up by child laborers. They were called Fascists, and were pretty much like Capitalists, but meaner. They felt that they should tell all the little people what to do, and they didn't care whether you liked it or not. They were mean, ugly people and hated us Communists, since we were so much healthier and smarter and certainly saner than they.
People like that, they get to fighting over stupid stuff. And in Spain, these Fascists had decided to try and push around the working man. Well, they weren't going to put up with that! In July of that year their leader, Franco, declared from the Canary Islands a "State of War" for all of Spain. The workers met this threat gladly, as I'm sure you realized!

The first thing, the Regional Government of Catalonia, the Generalitat, decided to arm the people.

The policemen are our friends, and in that war they proved it as well. Here I have a picture of the police defending the workers.

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