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Originally Posted by Hickory Hill Hoff
Well, I guess we're .........  I guess America isn't the GREATEST country in the world. Sad that the "left" believes this  |
Hardly surprising that Seumas Milne would be the source for the OP-ED referenced above. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's new "Executive Director of Strategy and Communications" has never let facts get in the way of his political beliefs. He is a communist, Marxist, Stalinist sympathizer. And he has never met an anti-capitalist he couldn’t love.
“For all its brutalities and failures, communism in the Soviet Union, eastern Europe and elsewhere delivered rapid industrialisation, mass education, job security and huge advances in social and gender equality. It encompassed genuine idealism and commitment, captured even by critical films and books of the post-Stalin era such as Wajda's Man of Marble and Rybakov's Children of the Arbat. Its existence helped to drive up welfare standards in the west, boosted the anticolonial movement and provided a powerful counterweight to western global domination.”
And of its victims: You have to break a few million eggs to make an omelet, right?
He lamented the conviction in British court of Anis Abid Sardar who built IEDs in Iraq. He blames the west for the murder of Boris Nemtsov in Russia, taking his cues straight from Putin. He justified Russia's involvement in Ukraine. That’s just this year. Go back and read/listen to more of his previous work, and you’ll get where he is coming from, and why he is useful to American apologists.