ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN COULD NOT BE REACHED FOR COMMENT:

Shot: How to find books in authoritarian states: head for dark, dusty corners — Censorship and intimidation can make life hard for academic researchers. You need to know where to look for hidden truths.

—Headline, the London Guardian, April 19, 2016.

Chaser:

• Arthur Ransome wrote from Russia for The Guardian and other publications. He knew and supported Lenin, Trotsky and the Bolsheviks. He was a friend of the butcher Dzerzhinsky.
• The Guardian supported Stalin, and sacked the brave Malcolm Muggeridge for telling the West about the genocidal Ukrainian Famine (when perhaps 7 million people were deliberately starved to death by Stalin).
• Today, The Guardian opposes the war on Islamic fascism and calls for appeasement.
• The Guardian and Left-wing mass murderers: a love story, Sean Thomas, 3 Oct 2013. – Lenin, Milosevic, Mao, the Soviet Union, the KGB. And that’s without getting started on the Islamists.

—“The left’s historical support for tyranny and terrorism,” MarkHumphrys.com.

Related: “How To Lose Money In Very Large Quantities:” David Thompson on the Grauniad’s current “business” model.

(Via Maggie’s Farm.)