A chara, – Karl McGovern (Letters, November 25th) seems to think Leon Trotsky and Francisco Franco were of similar ilk but at different ends of the political spectrum, or horseshoe, as the horseshoe theory tries to suggest.
Franco built concentration camps and was responsible for thousands of deaths. Trotsky was instrumental in the mutiny of soldiers which helped to bring the first World War to an end.
Most Trotskyists would in fact not be offended by your columnist Stephen Collins attempting to offend them by calling them Trotskyists.
That is amusing.
The falsity of this suggested likeness of a fascist dictator with a revolutionary like Trotsky might be better understood by a reading of Trotsky’s The Stalin School of Falsification.
And besides, why is there any need to replace the term Blueshirt? – Le meas,
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