I assume this submission was inspired by a comment on the active thread on how Britain viewed the U.S. Civil War.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31452077" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31452077</a>
What I find amusing was that Lincoln also got letters from Karl Marx: <a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/iwma/documents/1864/lincoln-letter.htm" rel="nofollow">https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/iwma/documents/1864/li...</a>
Sadly Russia never really recovered from communist revolution which resulted in a century of negative population selection, especially visible in its “leadership” today :(