Ruminations

I just spent the last couple of hours getting a detailed history of the Russian Revolution and the dictatorship of Josef Stalin, courtesy of Wikepedia, by googling the name of one of Stalin's secret police chief's, "Laurenti Beria", and working my way through the embedded links in the article (you want someone REALLY scary from that era, google "Vassili Michailovich Blokhin" and thank God you didn't cross his path.)  Documented history which shows just how disruptive, opportunistic, violent and lawless revolutions can be, and how important it becomes for a society to prevent the accumulation of power in just the hands of one or a few, and the value of law and order, and respect for the rights and opinions of others.  On a not unrelated, but somewhat lighter and more personal note, I think I will google "Shahinshahr", and see what Wikepedia has to say about that.