Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
Because they were - by their nature - hidden, I suppose. We didn't see emaciated bodies being bulldozed into mass graves and never had to experience the day-to-day misery and paranoia of living in police states, so it's all a bit theoretical to most westerners. Add in the fact that its iconography and a watered-down version of its politics were rendered respectable by leftist parties in the west and you have a recipe for indifference.
But... we knew. We had Solzhenitsyn. We had attempted escapees. People even went and saw it. I saw it. Comrade Corbyn saw it (and loved it, apparently) We knew!