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The People Who Gave the Soviet Union a Pass

by Arnold Beichman

Mr. Beichman, author of Anti-American Myths: Their Causes and Consequences, is a Hoover Institution Research Fellow.

I begin with the following proposition:

Probably the greatest triumph in public relations in all recorded history was the elevation in the democr