> In the face of things like that, a lot of US criticism fell flat. While the absolute worst part of American society and culture did approach the more casual

> In the face of things like that, a lot of US criticism fell flat. While the absolute worst part of American society and culture did approach the more casual evils that Communism produced it all pales compared to the scale and pervasiveness of what Russians suffered and perpetrated. American criticisms were frustrated by some hypocrisy but they didn’t fall flat except to the willfully ignorant of what went on during Communism.