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Originally Posted by Moejoe
We're all, as British or Americans on very shaky ground ...
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Nobody is perfect. One can cite atrocities perpetrated by EVERY group of people, during all of known history.
Frankly, while war and conflict are never pretty, generally well trained, orderly armies, like that of the US, are less likely to inflict indiscriminate damage and suffering. They also generally have fairly well established mechanisms for dealing with atrocities committed by their own soldiers (which also means, that they are more likely to make such atrocities public.)
But I trust, that you would not equate the death and suffering of those who were sent to the gulags, with the fate of the communist sympathizers ("useful idiots") under McCarthy's persecution (my God, Lardner even had to live in England for a couple of years!)
BTW, the opening of recent Soviet archives, as well as the Venona Papers, showed, that some of those blacklisted, did indeed work for the Soviets. So much for the Rosenbergs movie....
As Ayn Rand herself put it:
"Their purpose [of the Soviet-sponsored communists] is to corrupt non-political movies – by introducing small, casual bits of propaganda into innocent stories – and to make people absorb the basic premises of Collectivism by indirection and implication."