[lbo-talk] Family, dads, Stalin/Ilya Erenburg

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sun Jun 4 10:35:11 PDT 2006


Chuck Grimes wrote:
>
> We wonder now how these pleas from Erhenburg fell on deaf ears in the
> West more than fifty years ago. I suspect it was exactly because they
> were Eastern and the East was some how mixed up with Russians and
> Jews, something like Gypies or Mexicans in the American mind---shady
> characters.

References to Erhenburg in u.s. papers had the same tone as references to Ann Coulter on this list. He was a toady to Stalin, a hack, a miserable excuse for a human being.

Carrol



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