Well I think he's mistaken to equate Stalin at his worst to the whole of "the great doomed Soviet experiment of 1917-90", and I don't think this has anything to do with what Labour is getting away with, which is more about what governments in general get away with, especially since Thatcher.
And as far as our reaction to repressive history goes, the Nazis are the exception not the rule, and I don't necessarily agree with that. The reaction to the death of Melita Norwood reminds me more of the death of Nixon. Anyone can be forgiven by politicians, except Nazis, because politicians don't want us to learn from history, except about the Nazis; and what they want us to learn about the Nazis is that the Nazis were unique...
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Date: 2005-06-30 10:00 am (UTC)And as far as our reaction to repressive history goes, the Nazis are the exception not the rule, and I don't necessarily agree with that. The reaction to the death of Melita Norwood reminds me more of the death of Nixon. Anyone can be forgiven by politicians, except Nazis, because politicians don't want us to learn from history, except about the Nazis; and what they want us to learn about the Nazis is that the Nazis were unique...
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