Western scholars in the aftermath of WW2, trying to find some way to connect the Nazis with the evil commies, and basically invented all that horseshoe theory nonsense in the process. I don’t think it was anyone specific, more a general push in western academia to vilify the USSR with a term so vague and meaningless it could be applied to any government.
Who? Genuine question.
Western scholars in the aftermath of WW2, trying to find some way to connect the Nazis with the evil commies, and basically invented all that horseshoe theory nonsense in the process. I don’t think it was anyone specific, more a general push in western academia to vilify the USSR with a term so vague and meaningless it could be applied to any government.
Hannah Arendt