It's About Time

Arthur Chrenkoff notes that the leftists of the world may be admitting that the Soviet Union was indeed the "Evil Empire" that Reagan said it was:

One good thing about Amnesty International's Irene Khan calling Gunatanamo Bay facility a gulag: having mined the rich vein of Nazi analogies to tar the modern day's center-right (you know, America is a fascist state, Bush is Hitler, etc.), the international left is now adopting communist analogies to bash the Republicans, thus both expanding their moral vocabulary and implicitly acknowledging that, yes, communism was bad. In fact, as bad as conservatism. It's progress of sorts, but pity that the left can't now retrospectively start campaigning for human rights, freedom and democracy behind the Iron Curtain.

Ouch.

Perhaps with the advent of the internet and blogs, the left can't pretend that that bad things didn't happen in the USSR and the oppressed satellite states. In the 60's, 70's and 80's the left could say that the west was spewing propaganda. Now that the Iron Curtain is a nothing but a memory, they may have to face up to the fact that Communism killed ten times more people in the twentieth century than Fascism.

Revising history--as liberals did throughout the last half century--is no longer easy, especially for the lead revisionist rag the NY Times. The blogosphere is led by the center-right and we have many smart writers, such as Chrenkoff, who are ripping apart the spin and showing the truth on a daily basis.