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    Oct 29, 2020 3 minutes

    TOO KIND TO TROTSKY

    aving received my first copy of , I was surprised to find an article by Ella Whelan staunchly defending Leon Trotsky (October). Given Ms Whelan’s casual covering up of the crimes of the Soviet Union which Trotsky so keenly advocated (blithely glossed over as being “specific to the historical moment he was acting”), can I expect future articles crediting Pol Pot’s ambitious plans to reform Cambodia, or the journalistic flair of Julius Streicher? That Ms Whelan finds it tolerable to publicly support a man who unstintingly called for

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