Why Were 10,000 Nazis Given Safe Haven in US? Kinda creepy, where are they now?

[HiPointDem]

15. you act like everyone who joined the party was coerced. not the case. and the moral case

you make can be turned around, you know; the people 'purged' when the communists took power were the people who'd been happy to 'purge' the general population before to hold on to their own power & privilege. the woman may have benefited from people being jailed & killed -- but so did those people benefit from people like the woman being jailed & killed before the revolution.

most soviet citizens in fact didn't belong to the party, btw.

By 1933, the party had approximately 3.5 million members but as a result of the Great Purge party membership was cut down to 1.9 million by 1939.[citation needed] In 1986, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union had over 19 million members or approximately 10% of the USSR's adult population.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union#Membership

that the people you met belonged to the party is an indicator of their class status within the ussr -- basically the equivalent of the upper middle-class to upper class here -- supervisory & management types, generally speaking.

which doesn't mean they were necessarily born into that class; the revolution opened up lots of opportunity for people of lowly origins who would not have had that opportunity otherwise. kruschev's father was a peasant & low-level worker; kruschev herded goats as a child, e.g.