The Grauniad reports... the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, led tributes to the Marxist historian and academic Eric Hobsbawm,
who died on Monday , calling him "an extraordinary historian, a man
passionate about his politics and a great friend of my family".
Liberal England carries more details of Hobsbawm's support for Soviet mass murder including this most egregious exchange with Michael Ignatieff:
Ignatieff: What that comes down to is saying that had the radiant tomorrow actually been created, the loss of fifteen, twenty million people might have been justified?
Hobsbawm: Yes.If nazi non-historian David Irving had said similar (and he probably has) he would have rightly been attacked. But the left always gets away with it - witness the fawning tributes to him on tonight's Newsnight.
The title puzzles me, because I can't see any reference to Hobsbawm being a holocaust apologist. Perhaps you were being deliberately provocative? If so, I think a bit more sensitivity would be in order.
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