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CHRONIC. The extreme left continues to benefit from an indulgence that is however insane. As if some hatreds were more acceptable than others.
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By Ferghane Azihari
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Inine years ago, France quietly renamed its last rue Pétain. Proof that iconoclasm did not wait for the arrival of American cancel culture to do useful work. All the streets of France are now freed from the symbolic yoke of tyrants. All? No. Many places still and always resist historical criticism. This is the case, for example, with those boulevards, squares and other streets – no less than sixty in France – bearing the name of Lenin. Yet it is this character that the historian Stéphane Courtois designates in his latest book as the inventor of totalitarianism, as he has elevated terror to the rank of an institution. Stalin will only perpetuate it.
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