Since the Cold War ended more than 20 years ago, the left in general, and the media in particular, have tended to regard it as a kind of cosmic joke: hysterical American reaction—indeed, overreaction—to the peaceful postwar existence of the Soviet Union and other Communist states, including China. You don’t hear much about the killing of tens of millions of people inside those countries and elsewhere; but you do read a lot about the suffering of Hollywood screenwriters and the baleful influence of the Cold War in American politics.
Two events last week only emphasized this wearisome truth. One was the death of 92-year-old David Greenglass, brother of the atomic spy Ethel Rosenberg, which prompted (among others) the New York Times to publish an obituary so tendentious, and hopelessly estranged from the facts that the historian Ronald Radosh was obliged to publish a succinct, corrective account of the whole Rosenberg case in the New York Sun (nysun.com/national/how-david-greenglass-helped-break-up-soviet-spy).
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