IN LIGHT OF THE EARLIER COMMUNIST/NAZI DISCUSSION, I’d just like to say that I wish someone would actually make Total Eclipse.

Related thoughts here. And Michael Totten emails:

Robert Kaplan had a great quote about this in his book Balkan Ghosts.

“A thought then occurred to me: if Yugoslavia was the laboratory of Communism, then Communism would breathe its last dying breath here in Belgrade. And to judge by what [Slobodan] Milosevic was turning into by early 1989, Communism would exit the world stage revealed for what it truly was: fascism, without fascism’s ability to make the trains run on time.”

Fascism, with an incompetent face.