From: Monte Davis 

"Robert Comer"  wrote:

>Southerner
>USA people tend to think of it as bad while northerners don't even think
>about it, as an example...

This northerner neither forgets nor feels the least bit triumphant about
our own civil war, which was a tragedy all around.

And at that, we were "lucky" -- I think we tend to underestimate
how much the civil wars in Russia 1918-1922 and China 1937-1949 contributed
to the nature of the regimes that emerged from them. Communist "class
struggle" would have been a lousy starting point in any case, but the
civil wars (and attending disease, famine, foreign interventions, etc.)
made it even harsher and bloodier.

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