Muertes paralelas

Jeff Jacoby resalta la coincidencia de las muertes de un disidente vietnamita y del historiador Eric Hobsbawm, quien hasta el último minuto de su vida se mantuvo firme en su postura a favor del comunismo que se llevó 3 décadas de la vida de Nguyen Chi Thien.

Hobsbawm, on the other hand, was a lifelong Marxist, a card-carrying member of the Communist Party from his teens until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Long after it was evident to even true believers that the Bolshevik Revolution had unleashed a nightmare of blood, Hobsbawm went on defending, minimizing, and excusing the crimes of communism.

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