How can we condemn Russia when...

How can we condemn the Soviet response to the famine in the Ukraine when so many are jobless and desperate in the west?

How can we condemn Soviet expansionism into Eastern Europe when the western powers consolidate their empires in the Far East?

How can we condemn the Soviet intervention in Hungary, when Britain and France tried to the same in Suez?

How can we condemn the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia, when America is at war in Vietnam?

How can we condemn the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, when the West supports Pinochet?

How can we condemn the Russian incursion into Ukraine, after the American wars in Iraq & Afghanistan?

At least Hobsbawm was actually in the pay of Moscow when he shilled for them.