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Friday Feb. 8, 2002
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Letters to the Editor
A 'backwards view' of American history
Mariam Durrani's column on patriotic movie previews on Feb 1 was an appallingly typical display of anti-American hatred and a completely ignorant and backwards view of American history. Communism was and is the greatest threat to all of human civilization. One of the most basic tenants of communism is that it cannot peacefully coexist with any other ideology, religious or secular; all culture must be destroyed for communism to succeed. In the '40s and '50s, Americans learned about the Rosenbergs, Alger Hiss and the "Hollywood ten." This, combined with the fall of China to Mao, the unprovoked Soviet-supplied invasion of South Korea and Khrushchev's screaming "We will bury you," rightfully scared the hell out of people all over the world.
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