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hit upon one answer: the devil and his helpers hated the Baby Jesus and Santa Claus and wanted to spoil everything for them. I was just getting caught in the crossfire!
I did not think it prudent to try hard to remember one or two, or maybe three small sins of my own to explain things. I haven’t had much reason in the intervening years to change the conclusion at which I arrived that day.
For all of my life, from 1921 to date, the world has been going to hell in a basket; nothing but “wars and rumors of war”: the aftermath of the Great War (WWI); the Russian Revolution and its aftermath; the rise of the fascist dictatorships; the headlong rush of the whole world into the second World War; our development of the atomic bomb and its use in war; the enslavement of one country after another and, then, almost a half century of cold war between the communists and the west.
And then, suddenly, the collapse of the whole communist house of cards and lies. Surprise! Surprise! The choir of angels will not be singing from “Mein Kampf” or the “Communist Manifesto” after all, but the “Hallelujah Chorus” rings out instead, and we all join in to thank God for a glorious Christmas gift — the sight of their much-vaunted
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