PETER HITCHENS: Just like the Reds, the Greens think they're too good and noble to possibly be wrong

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PETER HITCHENS: Just like the Reds, the Greens think they're too good and noble to possibly be wrong but this country will begin to get colder and darker - just like the Soviet Union

By Peter Hitchens for The Mail on Sunday

Published: 17:06 EST, 1 January 2022 | Updated: 02:26 EST, 2 January 2022
 

Last week I described a long-ago Christmas in Moscow, in those days the capital city of one of the maddest ideas that ever seized the human mind. It was a crazy place, needlessly dangerous, dirty, corrupt, desperately inefficient.

One fact about it will tell you a lot. We always kept a spare can of petrol in the boot of the car (for petrol could suddenly disappear from the scarce pumps without warning) in case we needed to get to the airport in a hurry.

Because, if any of us was seriously ill, the only wise thing to do was to get the first plane out to Helsinki, where up-to-date medical treatment, modern drugs and clean conditions were available.

There we were, in the heart of a state supposedly dedicated to the ideal of human equality, and the only good hospital in the whole country was hidden behind a 15ft wall, in guarded private grounds, available solely to a few dozen members of the Communist Party Central Committee.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10361187/PETER-HITCHENS-Just-like-Reds-Greens-think-theyre-nice-wrong.html

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"The USSR was also supposed to be dedicated to plenty but the official shops were empty. The joke described a woman going into one of these ornate places and asking one of the many unoccupied staff if they had any fish – to which the helpful reply was: ‘No, this is the shop where we don’t have any meat. The shop which doesn’t have any fish is just there across the road.’"



LOL, a real-life version of the Monty Python 'Cheese Shop' skit.

[Fishrrman]

The Greens:
Same hammer, same sickle, only the color is different.