The useful idiots from the Cold War are back. From Hong Kong to Havana, an ideology that has killed more than 100 million people in the 20th century is gaining new fans. To a global audience in the billions, the Putin regime depicted its communist heritage as a romantic and quaint era – you know, except for the mass starvations or gulags for political prisoners. NBC’s Bob Costas called Communism “a pivotal experiment.” MORE