Yep, I remember their articles on (say) plant life in the Amazon being decent, but their articles on the USSR being pretty hit-or-miss. In fact, reading these articles was what first led me to start exploring communism – because of the way they’d report on something clearly good the USSR was doing, but try to spin it in a way that made it sound frightening and scary. The hypocrisy bugged me, and made me wonder if there was more being held back.
Yep, I remember their articles on (say) plant life in the Amazon being decent, but their articles on the USSR being pretty hit-or-miss. In fact, reading these articles was what first led me to start exploring communism – because of the way they’d report on something clearly good the USSR was doing, but try to spin it in a way that made it sound frightening and scary. The hypocrisy bugged me, and made me wonder if there was more being held back.