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International Socialism, Autumn 1965

 

Dave Peers

A Century of Clichés

 

From International Socialism, No.22, Autumn 1965, p.32.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.

 

Russia and Germany: a century of conflict
Walter Laqueur
Weidenfeld, 45s

This is a banal study of the Hitler-Stalin period: e.g., Nazism was the result of a mass mental aberration on the part of the German people under the influence of an evil genius. Stalinism gets a similar explanation. Dotted amongst the clichés are occasional droppings of State Department philosophy such as the following comment on the Hitler-Stalin pact. ‘Communist and extreme left wing critics of Stalin are on weak ground: if they had moral or ideological scruples they had joined the wrong party in the first place’ (p.256). Not recommended.

 
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