The
warnings were there, but were drowned out in the drunken orgy of
anti-communism of the 1990s, which culminated in the publishing of Black Book of Communism (1997).*** This Black Book spawned Anne Applebaum's Gulag (2004), Iron Curtain 2012), Red Famine (2017), as if to drive a stake through communism's heart.
But all did not go according the US-German plans to put paid to communism, fulfilling Hitler's greatest hope (arguably more important than his vow to kill all Jews). Hitler failed in his plan to destroy the communist Soviet Union. It looked like Applebaum was grabbing his torch with her white hot anti-communist diatribes, completing his work, not by military might, but by the Word. Heil Ms Applebaum!
But rushing to the finish line, the whole relay team stumbled.
Hitler = Stalin
In
2007, many Europeans (especially Germans) embraced this equivalency,
unthinkable in the 1980s. In 2008, right wing eastern European
politicians and intellectuals published the Prague 2008 Declaration on
European Conscience and Communism, calling for an all-European
understanding that many crimes committed in name of communism should be
assessed as crimes against humanity in the same way Nazi crimes were
assessed by the Nuremberg Tribunal.
"Wasn't bolshevik 'class murder' the logical and actual predecessor to National Socialist 'race murder?" historian Ernst Nolte asked back in 1986. He was sharply criticized for this relativism by Jurgen Habermas, but was nonetheless awarded the Kondrad Adenauer Prize in 2000. This launched a startling debate, headed by Zionists, for whom there was only one "Holocaust'. Robert Cohen's New York Times editorial was called "Hitler apologist wins German honor". Past imperialist gaffes (native massacres, slavery, Armenians, Ukrainians) are lesser sufferings. .
But all did not go according the US-German plans to put paid to communism, fulfilling Hitler's greatest hope (arguably more important than his vow to kill all Jews). Hitler failed in his plan to destroy the communist Soviet Union. It looked like Applebaum was grabbing his torch with her white hot anti-communist diatribes, completing his work, not by military might, but by the Word. Heil Ms Applebaum!
But rushing to the finish line, the whole relay team stumbled.
Hitler = Stalin
"Wasn't bolshevik 'class murder' the logical and actual predecessor to National Socialist 'race murder?" historian Ernst Nolte asked back in 1986. He was sharply criticized for this relativism by Jurgen Habermas, but was nonetheless awarded the Kondrad Adenauer Prize in 2000. This launched a startling debate, headed by Zionists, for whom there was only one "Holocaust'. Robert Cohen's New York Times editorial was called "Hitler apologist wins German honor". Past imperialist gaffes (native massacres, slavery, Armenians, Ukrainians) are lesser sufferings. .
Cohen's concern was not just semantics. He was also concerned about the ongoing rise of the far right in Europe
continued at Red Hangover Part II
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