'The Battleship Potemkin'

It's interesting that, as Americans, we demonize communists, and, to be more exact, the then Soviet Union.

The Cold War explains much of this. I think the absence of capitalism plays into this. Rarely do you hear Americans decrying communism for the oppressive and violent regimes in which millions die and millions other suffer.

Anyway, what's ironic is that the communist government in the Soviet Union was the Romanovs, particularly Nicholas II, who disregarded his people, was anti-Semitic, a war monger and a general dick.

This, however, everyone in the world could live with.

I don't feel sorry for Nick II. "The Battleship Potemkin" tells the story of an incident that took place in the 1905 revolution, which didn't stick. Twelve years late, one would stick. You'd think Nick and Co. would have learned their lesson. You can't keep a good proletariat down.