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That's the Chinese variant: compassionate Reds invading Tibet to free oppressed peasants...compassionate Yankees invading countries to uphold the barbers' right to exert their activity, cable TV porn to be relayed and miniskirts...that is what i call altruism...

The variant implies that numbers of supposed Tibetan victims of the Chinese takeover are made-up, for there are disparate census figures that make it impossible for the Chinese to have disposed of so many Tibetans...and those who had a hard time were by all accounts lazy abbotts, land-owners and other slimy bourgeois...

Sounds familiar? Try substituting Tibetans with another well-known group and to apply these brilliant arguments grounded in facts and unshakable logic ...then see how long you last...

There are two sides to any truth. And believe me, the Chinese Communists are no angels. I recall in grade school, about the time Nixon went to China how our teachers showed us a film about how wonderful China was. We were told that before Mao took over, this was a land in the dark ages ruled by warlords and where any man can kill his own wife and get away with it. We were shown how China was now able to feed its people.

Of course they never spoke about the Great Leap Forward, which cause a famine killing millions or the horrors of the Cultural Revolution.

When my dad was young in the 1930s he was told that Stalin was a great man and they regarded the USSR as a great experiment.

Incidentally, even though Hitler was a genocidal mad man, I did read a great deal about how many Russians willingly joined up with the Nazis because they preferred the Germans to the Communists. They just could not tell one form of dictatorship from the other. Later the Western Allies sent them all back to Stalin where most of them were either killed or forced to live the rest of their lives in hellish labor camps.

But since history favors the victors, this is a story we seldom hear about.

Or to quote George Bernard Shaw, history will tell lies as usual.