[Ads-l] communist

[Jonathan Lighter]

High-paid CNN anchor:

"But Vladimir Putin is a communist!"

I.e., dictator; totalitarian.

Forty years ago I more than once heard freshmen explain that "Hitler was  a
communist." (Well, maybe twice.)

Cf. '60s "fascist" : 'a conservative politician.'

JL

-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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