Thus, in 1992, China helped select the seven year old Ogyen Trinley Dorje as the 17th Karmapa Lama, installing him at Tibet s Tsurphu monastery the Karmapas ancestral abode, which was almost destroyed during the Cultural Revolution. He became the first reincarnated living Buddha to be recognized and ratified by Communist China.

Of course, our Orange forces are not perfect, and Viktor Yanukovych who again opposes Ukraine s democrats is not Stalin reincarnated. But the records of both alternatives suggest that Ukraine under those who backed the Orange Revolution will remain a member of the club of democracies and open economies, whereas under Yanukovich, Ukraine would turn its back on reform, and may re embrace the grimmest aspects of our Soviet past.

Of course, our Orange forces are not perfect, and Viktor Yanukovich who again opposes Ukraine s democrats is not Stalin reincarnated. But the records of both alternatives suggest that Ukraine under those who backed the Orange Revolution will remain a member of the club of democracies and open economies, whereas under Yanukovich, Ukraine would turn its back on reform, and may re embrace the grimmest aspects of our Soviet past.

In Argentina, despite the disaster of Juan Perón s return to power in 1973, after an 18 year exile, Perónism was reincarnated in the 1980 s in the presidency of Carlos Saúl Menem, and again with the arrival of President Néstor Kirchner and, later, his wife, current President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. Fernández s melodramatic speeches are a transparent attempt to elevate her late husband to saintly status, just as Perón elevated his wife, Evita, to sainthood.