IN RUSSIA ABOUT A CENTURY AGO, THE SAME SORT OF "USEFUL LIBERALS" AS WE HAVE TODAY WOULD HAVE MINDLESSLY ENDORSED A YEAR'S WORTH OF RIOTING, LOOTING, BURNING, MUGGING, AND MURDERING BY THEIR OWN SIDE . . . AS MOSTLY PEACEFUL PROTESTS. WHILE THEY WOULD HAVE CALLED ACTUAL PATRIOTS . . . ENEMIES OF THE STATE. OF COURSE A DECADE LATER THE SURVIVING LEFTISTS WERE LUCKY TO BE STANDING IN BREADLINES WAITING FOR THEIR GLORIOUS MASTERS TO FEED THEM UNDER MARXIST COLLECTIVISM.