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Communist is one thing, but I can't imagine anyone having any sympathy for a self-identified Stalinist. Would this article have painted him in the same light if he said "National Socialist" instead of "Stalinist"?

I would love the irony of a poor national socialist militant being a victim of discrimination in a foreign country.

I knew three insufferable card-carrying members of the communist party in college. Ten years later, all three of them wound up becoming highly paid lawyers. The world needs assholes.

He sounds annoying, but not necessarily horrible.

I mean, as not-horrible as you can be while identifying yourself with one of the greatest mass-murderers and psychopaths of the 20th century.

Agreed. At least he is not a follower of Mao, Hitler or Genghis Khan. Then he would be a really awful person.

There are plenty of confused college students wearing Che shirts. Reality is quite the cure all.