‘The atrocity tale is a typical Ultra‐Rightist propaganda device. In its simplest terms, it consists of charging the Communists with atrocities of such astronomical proportions that the Nazi bestialities and mass extermination pale to insignificance. It is an oblique way of whitewashing Hitler and his associates.’
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‘The atrocity tale is a typical Ultra‐Rightist propaganda device. In its simplest terms, it consists of charging the Communists with atrocities of such astronomical proportions that the Nazi bestialities and mass extermination pale to insignificance. It is an oblique way of whitewashing Hitler and his associates.’
— Morris Kominsky, 1970