Friends Unfriend At The Weather’s Bend

.By Eric Le Roy

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Content 21+ It is more than a little bit interesting how stating one’s political views can ruin a friendship. So wise, the old saying about two things to avoid at a party: religion and politics. Well, religion can be put on the back burner at most punch bowl bashes these days, but politics always seems to find a new life no matter what. Kind … Read the rest

The Mothers Of The Fatherland

By ERIC LE ROY

Content 18+ Artem’s article “The Soviet Paradox: Women, Rights, and the Twisted Path of Progress” was highly informative, albeit a bit too glib (for my taste) in its glowing endorsement and idealized portraiture of the Bolsheviks. First, it might be recalled that there was not only one, but two revolutionary groups pressing their cause in the Russia of those frantic revolutionary days. The other was the … Read the rest