How on earth could we have been fighting a crusade for freedom and democracy shoulder to shoulder with czarist russia, then one of the most violent, reactionary and repressive regimes on the planet? You know, mister chairman, when british newspapers needed pictures to accompany their grossly embellished stories of german crimes in belgium, they used photos of anti semitic pogroms carried out by the russian government. That, i think, rather says it all. Then there was plucky little serbia, a country that had launched two wars of conquest in the balkans in 19 12 and 19 13. A country whose nationalist parra militaries had raped murdered their way