Commentary
I have watched with horror the totalitarian pattern of the Jan. 6 Committee.
As I wrote last month, this is a staged show trial worthy of Vladimir Lenin who developed the technique (later used to great effect by Joseph Stalin) while creating the Soviet dictatorship.
As Laura Engelstein wrote in her brilliant study “Russia in Flames: War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914—1921”:
“The trial of [Former Supreme Ruler of Russia Alexander] Kolchak’s ministers was the first and the prototype—of the political show trials that were to reach their apogee in Stalin’s purges. The purpose of the exercise was to judge not only the responsible individuals, but the entire counterrevolution….