Thanks for posting that link Ake, some of the thumbnail sketches contained therein described a couple of the "usual suspects" on this forum perfectly.

To those wittering on about how bloodthirsty the 20th century was and their attribution of this bloodlust to the big bad "West" particularly the UK and USA illustrates the deficiencies outlined in Akenaton's linked article from "The Spectator".

Look up the term "democide" (The slaughter of a nations population by the leaders of that nation), look at the list of the top ten "democide Leaders". Those top ten - going back to Genghis Khan - were responsible for the deaths of over 189 million people - the top four democides were all post-Second World War communist leaders who were responsible for roughly 121 million of those 189 million deaths. Communism was a total failure, socially, economically and politically, the "experiment" resulted in the needless and unnecessary deaths of millions. What prevented that disaster from being much, much worse in magnitude and scale was the fact that the attempt at bringing the benefits of communism to world was countered and resisted by "the big bad West", particularly by the USA and the UK. During the 20th Century the UK and the USA successfully saw off the threat to freedom posed by the Kaiser's military autocracy, by Nazi Germany and the Axis powers, by Communism. Since the early 1970s democracy has been under attack by radical fundamental Islam and guess who it will be that will take on and defeat that threat? The "big, bad, West" - particularly the USA and the UK, THEIR efforts up to date have given and guaranteed you all the freedoms we currently enjoy.