That's the part that gets me too. You shouldn't need to bring up those tired regimes even if you're trying to emphasize unrecognized analogies. Especially whe

That's the part that gets me too. You shouldn't need to bring up those tired regimes even if you're trying to emphasize unrecognized analogies. Especially when you've got a 92-year-old Soviet with a first-hand account, that speaks for itself without any further name-dropping.