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Fred C. Dobbs
09-26-2008, 10:19 PM
"To infer that the Soviet Terror is as hideous as Hitlerism is not only a brutal oversimplification but a moral indecency."

Thus said critic George Steiner in a 1974 review of Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago.

My question: Did Steiner express a great moral truth or did he reveal a great blind spot in the thinking of Western Left intellectuals?