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To: KLP who wrote (295567)	3/8/2009 6:11:09 PM
From: unclewest	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793838

This says it all - edit] Public Criticism Hobsbawm has attracted criticism for his support for communism. For example, Robert Conquest has claimed that in an interview with Canadian author and politician Michael Ignatieff on British television in 1994, Hobsbawm responded to the question of whether 20 million deaths may have been justified if the proposed communist utopia had been created as a consequence by saying "yes".[26] More specifically, Hobsbawm reportedly said that "in a period in which, as you might imagine, mass murder and mass suffering are absolutely universal, the chance of a new world being born in great suffering would still have been worth backing". "He stressed that since the utopia had not been created, the sacrifices were in fact not justified " Are we to accept that kind of after the fact excuse by O too?