Not only the press. If you can believe it (and I am sure you can) some colleges are teaching kids that Soviet Communism wasn't really communism at all. I heard two students talking this up a year or so ago. They attended Reed College in Portland. The same Reed College named after a guy buried at the Kremilin - John Reed.
Unbelieveable!
Its the old, "communism has never been tried before" line. Or the, "it didn't work because (______)" line.