Let's recognize one thing about the left: for a century, it has always managed to place itself on the right side of history.
It is therefore perfectly legitimate that today it is she who calls for the regulation of freedom of expression, she who awards patents of moral respectability and she who treats with contempt those who do not think like her.
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Indeed, it is not as if, in the 1930s, she had denied the reality of the famine in Ukraine, prevented the truth from appearing in the Western media, notably in the
New York Times
(so as not to let the event, “recovered” could play into the hands of anti-communism?), depriving 5 million victims of the hope of international aid.
It is not as if, during the Second World War, the two main collaborationist parties, the PPF and the RNP, were led by a former communist (Jacques Doriot) and a former socialist (Marcel Déat).
It's not as if Maurice Papon, an accomplice to crimes...
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