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venerdì, dicembre 12, 2003
Non solo Duranty. Quella del come e del perchè la stampa occidentale abbia potuto dar credito per così lungo tempo alle menzogne della propaganda sovietica resta una storia ancora da scrivere. Un affascinante articolo di Arnold Beichman ricostruisce alcuni episodi dei decenni di giornalismo compiacente verso il totalitarismo comunista evidenziando anche le pesanti responsabilità del mondo accademico in questa grottesca opera di disinformazione.
Part of the responsibility for the Great Lie era in the journalism from Moscow lies with the academy. One of the great intellectual failures of the century has been the failure by distinguished academics—economists, political scientists, historians, philosophers, sociologists many of them teachers at prestigeous universities—to apply the standards of truth to their research into the Soviet Union and Communism itself. As a result of these falsehoods camouflaged as “research,” a fictitious Soviet Union and an equally fictitious People’s Republic of China as utopias-in-being were created for Western policy makers. The relationship between the lies of the academy and the extermination of millions of people within Soviet borders, in Eastern Europe, in China and Southeast Asia may be casual or coincidental but there is no question that Communist totalitarianism benefited from at least fifty years of academic indulgence and willful credulity. Putroppo l’abitudine dei giornalisti occidentali di farsi portavoce dei regimi dittatoriali è sopravvissuta al crollo dell’Unione Sovietica. |
A Fabio.
A Luisa.   
  Asia e dintorni Normblog |
