Stan Shannon wrote:
Why the hell do you claim its been "played down"?
Two reasons: one, i didn't really learn of it for many years. I heard plenty of other things about the USSR, about the restrictions of ownership, commerce, religion, travel. I suppose i must've read about Stalin's five-year plans, and the resulting deaths in a textbook or encyclopedia... but it never seemed to get a whole lot of emphasis. #2: public attitude. Yelling "fascist!" is an insult; yelling "communist" is a joke. Heck, Godwin's Law refers to Hitler, not Stalin - because comparing someone to Stalin just isn't very effective.
Stan Shannon wrote:
And frankly, with evidence like this, didn't the "Red-scare" witch hunters have a point?
Did they? I thought we called them "witch hunters" in reference to the famous Salem witch trials - that is, fanatical prosecutors of people who, for the most part at least, weren't witches.
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