Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
Have you ever read (or seen) Stoppard’s ‘Professional Foul’? Even that revolting apologist addressed it to some degree, and it was shown as a Play for Today on the BBC. I think you underestimate how evil the regime was acknowledged to be.
Yes. And there was Le Carré (who, whatever his faults, never wavered in his loathing of communism).

But these are a/ relatively niche and b/ non-visual. Never underestimate the impact of images. In emotional terms, everything's just theoretical until we see it. The soviets learned from the Holomodor to keep the optics out of sight and, as a result, communism never had the visceral impact on people that the realities of Nazism did.