Thursday, 30 April 2009

Did Helen Ever Write About Trade?

Brian Edwards book about Helen has a photo of part of an essay she wrote at school about communism and the Soviet Union. You can sense the sycophantic dribble on her chin - I'm struggling for an appropriate adjective. A million miles from reality ...

Poland's equality minister, Elzbieta Radziszewska, wants to expand a Polish law prohibiting the production of fascist and totalitarian propaganda ...The proposal, which could see the faces of some of the leading lights of communist history such as Lenin and Trotsky removed from t-shirts and flags, reflects a Polish view on communism far different from the rose-tinted and romantic images often found in the West.
After experiencing 40 hard years of communism, as well as the horrors of Nazi occupation, few Poles have qualms equating under law the inequities of Nazism and communism.

"Communism was a terrible, murderous system that claimed millions of lives," said Professor Wojciech Roszkowski, a leading Polish historian and member of the European parliament.
"It was very similar to National Socialism, and there is no reason to treat those two systems, and their symbols, differently. Their glorification should be prohibited."


Poles should know.

I'm also sure none of Helen's writings at school mention trade.

Do any Labour or Green voters get 'Trade'?

Simply by allowing nations to concentrate on producing those things that their geographic, climatic, and intellectual endowments best enable them to do, and to exchange those goods for what is best produced elsewhere, trade has directly propelled our global prosperity. (A Splendid Exchange. W Bernstein. 2008)

Apart from Mike Moore.

Mike ! Did you vote for Helen?

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