As I recalled in a piece in theglobalist <a href="http://www.theglobalist.com/DBWeb/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=4634">http://www.theglobalist.com/DBWeb/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=4634</a> and in my book, there was a time when the people in the West were celebrating the fall of the Russian Czar and the German Kaiser.