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MICHAEL BURLEIGH: Stalin's gulags and his Left wing British ...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/.../MICHAEL-BURLEIGH-Stalins-gulags-Left-wing-British...Oct 1, 2013 - In Hampstead parlours, intellectual apologists for Stalin like Ralph Miliband's ... The GulagArchipelago, by the Russian novelist Alexander ...
Such a system — whose goal was ‘social justice’ — relied on any number of Western apologists to deny what others had witnessed first-hand.
Many of these were British academics, intellectuals and journalists. Among them were the founders of the London School of Economics, Sidney and Beatrice Webb.
They merely said of Stalin’s terror famine: ‘Strong must have been the faith and resolute the will of the men who, in the interest of what seemed to them the public good, could take so momentous a decision.’
Stalin established a few model prisons especially to show visiting Western dupes such as Professor Harold Laski, the mentor of Ralph Miliband at the LSE and chairman of the Labour Party.
Laski, who was seemingly not shocked by prisoners having their teeth smashed out with iron bars, reported back: ‘Basically, I did not observe much of a difference between the general character of a trial in Russia and in this country.’
Among Western socialist sympathisers of the Soviets was Ralph Miliband’s friend, the Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm, who claimed the real enemy was capitalism, not the two criminals in Berlin and Moscow. , Hobsbawm remained a Communist Party member despite Soviet tanks rolling into Hungary in 1956. when he died last year, Ed Miliband released a statement mourning Hobsbawm as ‘a man passionate about his politics and a great friend of my family’.
Hard-left students bizarrely defend Stalin's gulags where MILLIONS died
The Sun Sept 12, 2018
Goldsmiths University student group BANNED for defending Stalin's Gulags
Express.co.uk · Sept 12
Hard-left students at Goldsmiths University bizarrely defend Stalin's ...
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7235844/students-defend-gulags-millions-died/
Sept 11 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Plus society said gulags were far ... Queer Plus Society at London's prestigious Goldsmiths University ...
Goldsmiths University student group BANNED for defending Stalin's ...
https://www.express.co.uk › News › UK
Student group BANNED after DEFENDING Gulag camps ... The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer Plus Society at Goldsmiths University in London deleted their tweets after they sparked anger and resulted in the ...
Gulags were 'compassionate', 'educational' institutions, say trans rights ...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk › News
rights campaigners at Goldsmiths University described the Gulags as ... Stalin's left-wing, Trotskyist opponents and gay men and women.
Goldsmiths student group mounts extraordinary defence of GULAG ...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Goldsmiths-student-group-mounts-extraordinary-defence...
Over 1 million people were murdered in the gulag camps in just 20 ... But hard-left activists at Goldsmiths university tweeted a defence of the ...Goldsmiths Student Union said: 'We condemn the abhorrent content of the tweets and they are in complete opposition to the views and values of the Students’ Union.
'The society have broken multiple union policies and procedures, including failing to adhere to our code of conduct, and we have issued multiple requests for the group to delete the tweets.
'As such, the society have been suspended and disaffiliated from the Students’ Union, pending investigation.'
The furore comes amid controversy that British universities have become too dominated by far-left academics and students, creating an intolerant environment for right-wing thinkers and undergraduates.
group, tweeting under the name LGBTQ+Goldsmiths, said they wanted to 'clarify what a gulag is' and why sending people there 'is actually a compassionate, non-violent course of action'.
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