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Originally Posted by kerry edwards
Not true. Some of the earliest critics of Soviet Communism were Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman who lived with Petr Kropotkin in Russia just after the Revolution. They were deported from the US for opposing WWII and holding left wing anarchist ideas.
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Yes true. Read the NY Times and any number of prominant leftist "thinkers" of the period. Only a very few criticized Lenin or Stalin. Most thought in terms of omelettes and eggs.
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