[lbo-talk] Can Leftists in the Iranian Diaspora Come to Terms with Iran?

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Sat Oct 6 03:20:22 PDT 2007


--- Lenin's Tomb <leninstombblog at googlemail.com> wrote: It's not accidental that the pro-war 'left' call him

'the Iraqi Solzhenitsyn'. He was plainly cultivating that role for himself (although he didn't become an outright American apologist until late

1990 when he assured General Schwarzkopf that Iraqis would welcome him with

hugs if he only took his tanks into Baghdad).

--

I assume this is a Solzhenitsyn-of-the-mind rather than the actually existing Solzhenitsyn, who despises the United States. Solzhenitsyn's politics are pretty much identical to those of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, which I find quite funny.

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