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p> DIRTY HARRY br> Re: Tim Carney's Brutal Dictator Kitsch : /p>

A few years ago, there was a holiday book review in another magazine of conservative opinion, and it made the point of cross reviewing Eugen Kogon's "Theory and Practice of Hell" against Robert Conquest's "Harvest of Sorrow". The reviewer's thesis was that although Kogon's book was the foundation of all Holocaust history, almost inevitably referenced in every book that followed, Conquest's history of the Soviet terror famine was more horrific, more demonstrative of evil incarnate. It wasn't easy to get a copy of Kogon's book, but I did, read Kogon and Conquest, and found myself concurring with the reviewer.

p>The "moral" of the story appears to be that it isn't mass murder per se that is unacceptable, it is who you do it to and to what end that "matters." br> -- Frank Natoli br> Newton, New Jersey /p> p> Or, Mr. Carney, Barmy Prince Harry could've worn a Che or Castro shirt, and would have been celebrated by the same crowd who castigated him. It just proves once again that to please the left, you have to be careful which murderous thug you associate yourself with. br> -- Tim Jones

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