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Religions > Atheism |
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"maff" |
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27 Apr 2005 02:50:46 AM |
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Lorenzo Valla |
An obvious trail of slime
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1471009,00.html
Hywel Williams
Wednesday April 27, 2005
The Guardian
Fraudulent claims, lying politicians and deceiving documents litter the
historical record of humankind. Sometimes the forgeries are obvious.
The Zinoviev letter of October 1924, supposedly written by the head of
the Comintern, urged British communists to organise themselves into
revolutionary cells within the British army. The document was
publicised during the frenetic atmosphere of an election campaign, with
Britain's first Labour government up for re-election. Sustained by
fear, the letter was believed by those who wanted to believe in it -
with its implication that the government was naive in its dealings with
international communism. Once the election was lost by Labour the
Zinoviev letter gained extra historical importance. For it induced a
deep feeling within the party that the Tories were abnormally vicious
liars, and victimhood and paranoia came to play a part in Labour
politics.
Lorenzo Valla
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Hywel Williams
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/736598b6044a2052
Zinoviev
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