By Brian Carnell

Friday, October 22, 1999

More Howard Zinn sycophantic apologia toward the Soviet Union.

Zinn says he's glad the Soviet Union is gone but says at least they helped give aid to Communists in Cuba and Vietnam -- both places with atrocious human rights records. Zinn also continues his odd way of treating the Soviet Union's popularity with the American Left by writing, "I do think that the Soviet Union, with its ugly record of near-Fascist policies, hurt the cause of socialism with which it became more and more identified."

Became more and more identified? Whenever people start using the passive voice like that watch out -- they are usually trying to hide something. In fact the problem Zinn and his cohorts have now is that so many of their Leftist colleagues and associates fully embraced the Soviet Union. Even after the fall of the USSR the sympathy directed at that totalitarian state is so great that Zinn, by his own account here, has to spend a lot of time thinking and contemplating how to respond to a letter writer who favors violent revolutions and the Soviet Union.

God forbid Zinn should offend any Stalinists who might buy his next book.

Source:

Beyond the Soviet Union. Howard Zinn, Z Magazine, Sept. 2, 1999.

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