The Christmas Dinner in 1990

The fall of the soviet union s inevitable now, but it did n't then. Communist spite and violence were seething among our neighbours. Some would kill rather than let go of power. A few days later, i would see horrible violence and villinous as the old bolshevik monster showed it was not yet dead. But in the midst of it, we made a lighted island of happiness and peace. As winston churchill described another christmas long ago.