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I have received many complaints that I undeservedly left Justin Trudeau out of my last piece. I thought I would make it up to him with a personal letter. I know he likes attention and complements so I'm indulging him.

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This Canada affair is indeed very strange as pantoufle points out. It is very interesting how blind everybody was to what they were doing. Their hiding from responsibility is to be expected though, considering what kind of people run the country.

There is a lot of confusion regarding the left-right paradigm as groddlo mentions. I plan on discussing that later - and I suspect I will piss some people off. We'll see. :/

I would like to point out that I took some liberties with the truth in that letter for "literary" reasons. Trotsky wasn't killed in a whorehouse. He had a mansion (like every self-respecting champion of the proletariat) and was attacked there. He died in a hospital if I remember correctly. The Stalin/Trotsky affair as it applies to the early Soviet Union is also debated. I don't know if we will ever learn the whole truth about that, although there are probably documents locked away in Russia which might be interesting.

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