[tet68]

from the article, It was very hard to read, small type but I found the book of some interest, the reviewer on the other hand kept making excuses for the depths of communist
depravity and not wanting to compare it to Naziism.

From the article


Evil is not morally complex, but the nature of the society that sustained the gulag was. The difficulty of embracing absurdity alongside tragedy may be yet another reason why we lag so far behind in our understanding of this terrible aspect of the 20th century and why, happily, no Hollywood director has yet attempted the impossible.

Long overdue in my opinion.

One wonders,"...why, happily....."???

[liberalnot]

got me.

the whole article struck me as push-pull. for example:

For this reviewer, the pride and self-belief that Soviet ideology generated, the willingness to make sacrifices for the collective good, has constantly to be kept in mind when judging the gulag.

my head hurts!

likewise, there's another article, front page, today in the lat, saying that feminists were better off under saddam!

ok, if you read the obits in the la times, communist hollywooders of the mccarthy era long for the "good ol' days of the soviet union." there was one just a week or so ago. a hollywood writer that said the soviets were "humanists".