Well don't read the NY TIMES !!!
America’s Newspaper of Record
A while back, we provoked the ire of a Left-Coast reader from Santa Monica when we referred to the New York Times as one of Stalinism’s last redoubts. We weren’t exaggerating, as the following note from The National Review will attest: “An instructive anthology could be compiled of New York Times obituaries of former American Stalinist hacks, the latest being Christopher Lehman-Haupt’s airbrushed tribute (March 20) to Herbert Aptheker, who died at 87. Aptheker joined the party in 1939, the year of the Hitler-Stalin pact, and for the rest of his life belonged to the most rigid Stalinist grouping of the party. Unmentioned in Mr. Lehman’s piece is the fa ct that Aptheker defended the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary as the defeat of a fascist coup against a “people’s” government. Aptheker considered the reconstruction of West Germany to be “renazification,” and wrote in Stalinist prose that U.S. leaders “have the morals of goats, he learning of gorillas, and the ethics of…racist, war-inciting enemies of humanity, rotten to the core, parasitic, merciless and doomed.” Aptheker’s scholarship regarding black history in America is considered unreliable, to put it mildly, among experts in the field, and much of it was brought out by International Publishers, the Communist house. The Times obit was remarkable – unless you are a regular reader of that paper’s memories of American Communists.”
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