Because the left sets the narrative, that’s why. Nazism is a crime of the (far) right. USSR is a crime of (an equally far) left. Pretty much all of the world intellectuals of the twentieth century were in some way collaborating with the USSR or the regimes sponsored by it. Think of any name, and there’s a 90% chance that writer, thinker, academic, dancer, muralist, philosopher, etc was buying drinks with Soviet money.
Yes, there are exceptions but culture is built by networks. If you haven’t carefully and painstakingly woven a net, you won’t catch any butterflies. The international Left was nourished by the Soviet colossus for 70 years. It got so powerful that it could write the story of everything. And nobody had a platform to say otherwise and be heard.
But the best part? Once the USSR fell apart, the United States of America took over the financing of the international Left. The transition was very seamless, very smooth. And America has much more money. Many more leftists could be funded around the world. Many more projects could be filled to the brim with ready cash.
This is why leftism became much more aggressive AFTER the fall of the USSR. That’s why it reached the heights of lunacy that the Soviets couldn’t dream of. I mean, the worst that the Soviets could force scientists to parrot was that oak branches can sprout out of a birch tree. And even that required thousands of academics to be shot dead or jailed. The post-Soviet leftism, in the meantime, made scientists, Prime Ministers, and every cultural authority declare that women have penises. And without a single shot fired. Step aside, Comrades. The real power is in town.
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Well, also because we allied with them during WWII, and WWII is our Big Holy Cause War that We Won. I think a lot of propaganda went into convincing people that the soviets, at that time at least, were one of the good guys. Because if not, that’d mean that we were, you know, allied with the baddies.
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Yes, and God forbid there should be anything to the story beyond good guys vs bad guys. Most people, sadly, can’t process that much complexity.
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You’ve got that right. My grandfather told me stories about that period of time in America. The movies (news reels) pushed the “Uncle Joe” narrative real hard. Heck GP, who is staunchly opposed to leftists today even flat out admitted when he was young, some president after the war ended started opposing “Uncle Joe” and GP and those in his age group were absolutely infuriated by the president at the time, because how could he do such against our good friend and ally. (The last bit was not being ironic, it was quite literally the words being used at the time.)
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It’s true that lefties in America have traditionally had a soft spot for the communists (Remember Pete Seeger and Joan Baez?), but also true that most Americans (and most Europeans) old enough to remember the 20th Century have been taught to consider the Nazis as uniquely evil in all of history (far worse than ANY other group — because the Nazis started the most destructive war in history and temporarily CONQUERED virtually all of Western Europe. The Imperial Japanese were as savage as the Nazis, but the Japanese conquests were mostly limited to Asia, which was not considered part of Western civilization. As for the communists, they have also limited their conquests to Asia and Eastern Europe, fringe areas also considered at the time as outside the bubble of Western civilization.
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Ukrainians and Poles had good reason to distrust communists, and some like Orwell had serious questions, but that old communist Friedan’s lies misled most of an entire generation of gullible college girls.
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Roosevelt was dying by 1945, but Churchill knew that the Stalin intended to keep everything the Russians took. So the British raced a single battalion of Canadian paratroopers to bluff the Russian armor at Wismar thus slowing their advance through northern Germany into Denmark and control of the Baltic Sea. Churchill evidently played a mean game of Risk ;-D
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Also, the Nazis killed Jews who dominated in Hollywood and academia.
Of course, you have to move with the tines when it comes to who has money to throw around.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-16/south-africa-to-court-middle-east-investors-for-infrastructure-push
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Socialism was popular with western academics long before the Russian revolution. If anything, Soviet propagandists were good at telling useful idiots what they wanted to hear.
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