Up until the Soviet Union split up, Western academics praised the USSR as the best thing in the world since sliced bread. I remember a story by Solzhenitsyn where he says a journalist came to their gulag and interviewed them. Since they were right before camp guards, they praised the Soviet system of 'correction through labor' since they liked breathing.
He assumed the journalist knew it was a scam and wouldn't dare publish it.
Years later, after Solzhenitsyn left the gulag, he moved to the West and he saw that interview was published word for word and the journalist wrote a piece praising the 'humane' Soviet system over America's 'cruel & evil' prison system!
Another example: during the Holodomor (Stalin's engineered famine) that killed 6 - 8 million in Ukraine, New York Times' Moscow Bureau chief Walter Duranty privately acknowledged to British intelligence that as many as 10 million folks had died. Publicly, he praised the Soviet system and said everything was abundant [0].
I could go on and on, but whether it's the USSR, Mao's China, or Castro's Cuba, there's a pattern of Western academics & media personalities praising brutally violent regimes.
Now, I'm not saying Putin's Russia is Christian & right wing; I'm simply pointing out how Western media never misses a chance to support the wrong guys.
It’s completely nuts how you’re being downvoted. My family wasn’t in America for all the anti-communist stuff, and indeed my home country was more Soviet aligned. But it’s apparent even to me that america media covers communism with kid gloves compared to any sort of right wing government.
He assumed the journalist knew it was a scam and wouldn't dare publish it.
Years later, after Solzhenitsyn left the gulag, he moved to the West and he saw that interview was published word for word and the journalist wrote a piece praising the 'humane' Soviet system over America's 'cruel & evil' prison system!
Another example: during the Holodomor (Stalin's engineered famine) that killed 6 - 8 million in Ukraine, New York Times' Moscow Bureau chief Walter Duranty privately acknowledged to British intelligence that as many as 10 million folks had died. Publicly, he praised the Soviet system and said everything was abundant [0].
I could go on and on, but whether it's the USSR, Mao's China, or Castro's Cuba, there's a pattern of Western academics & media personalities praising brutally violent regimes.
Now, I'm not saying Putin's Russia is Christian & right wing; I'm simply pointing out how Western media never misses a chance to support the wrong guys.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty