Stalin's Silent Stooges ; for More Than 50 Years, Britain's Liberal Left Have Glossed Over the Worst Genocide in History, How Stalin Tortured and Murdered 20 Million. Now a New Book Exposes the True Depth of Their Shame

Daily Mail › August 21, 2004

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ROSE COHEN finally - and completely - broke down while in prison. She spent all her time crying for her young son, Alyosha, right up to the moment she was taken out and shot.

Her husband Max, it later emerged, had been executed two months earlier, while Alyosha was sent to a harsh state orphanage for 'enemies of the people', just as his mother had feared he would be.

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Stalin's Silent Stooges ; for More Than 50 Years, Britain's Liberal Left Have Glossed Over the Worst Genocide in History, How Stalin Tortured and Murdered 20 Million. Now a New Book Exposes the True Depth of Their Shame

Rose and her husband may have been good party members, but in Stalin's Russia that counted for nothing at all.

Rose was just one of hundreds of British communists who had joined the party for ideological reasons and moved to Moscow - only to be murdered by Stalin's thugs.

And despite her pleas, no one on the British Left was prepared to lift a finger to help her for fear of upsetting Moscow.

Her blood was on their hands.

Rose's story appears in a chilling new book which brings home more powerfully than anything previously written the monstrous shame of the British Left in its dealings with Soviet communism.

Stalin's British Victims chronicles the lives and deaths of four London women and their Russian husbands, several of whom were murdered by the Russi...

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