Democrats Line Up to Denounce Their Recent Past
avatar By Ira Mehlman January 25, 2019
The 18th century French journalist Jacques Mallet du Pan famously admonished that “the revolution devours its children.†History has shown, more accurately, that revolutions tend to devour their parents.
In the 1930s, Stalin disposed of nearly all of his Bolshevik comrades who fomented and carried out the Soviet Revolution. Under his reign of terror, many of those who were accused of counterrevolutionary activities “confessed†to their imaginary sins and denounced their own bourgeois tendencies. It didn’t do them any good. Most wound up dead. The lucky ones wound up in Siberian labor camps or Soviet mental institutions.
Thirty years later, Mao Zedong similarly purged many of his revolutionary compatriots during China’s Cultural Revolution. Like the unlucky Bolshevik comrades, they too “confessed†transgressions of insufficient ideolo
gical purity in hopes of saving themselves, but many met the same fate.
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