“Instead we got the legend of martyrdom, and hundreds of hours of foul ideological exercises, unto the present day. “
Well, yes and no. More & more is coming out about the genocidal tendencies of the Left in Russia and E. Europe, thanks not only to you, but to people like Solzhenitsyn and Robert Conquest, and to the Internet. Look up Katyn massacre or Vinnitsa genocide, for example. I’m hoping that the American Left- if that’s not an oxymoron- just simply doesn’t know the extent of Murderous Marxists, 1918 to the present.
"You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs." - Walter Duranty
The left is very well aware of communist genocides, and approves of them.