"In following the course of Bolshevism in America, one cannot fail to be impressed and astonished by the consistent mediocrity of its leaders. It has great villainies to its credit, but no great villains." --Eugene Lyons, 1941
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Again, Lyons wrote this in 1941 Stop acting like this is newpic.twitter.com/wODSZV2iil
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"The same editors and writers who once spoke up...for Sacco and Vanzetti ...now gave every benefit of the doubt to an omnipotent state and its firing squads, rather than to its victims." --Eugene Lyons, "The Red Decade" 1941
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@newrepublic that hectors you now, defended the show-trial confessions of men who were tortured into confessions and had all of their families and friends tortured and murdered as well.pic.twitter.com/kqpcWEQhFc
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"Even after the voluminous records had been carefully analyzed and digested by a committee headed by Professor John Dewey, revealing the absurdity of the confessions, neither Cowley nor his journal [
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"Throughout their pro-Soviet years the liberals were more concerned with saving face than facing facts." --Eugene Lyons, 1941
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history doesn't repeat. but it sure rhymes. eugene lyons on antifa, 1941:pic.twitter.com/AI7eoqe4No
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Ah the wreckers doomed by their own actions.
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