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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

If you say so, .@menshevik . I first heard it in the 1970s, but I suppose you must be older than me. It doesn’t sound like the way my acquaintances among 1950s ex-communists spoke (either the Stalinists or the ones who quit after Slansky) They were more formal and more serious. — PolitiTweet.org

@ClarkeMicah @neil_abrams Actually it goes back to 1956. Within the CPGB , the term was used to mock the Stalinists… https://t.co/Yae90d5VoX

Posted Oct. 16, 2022

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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @EasySimon: @Veritatem2021 Only if you want to include NATO's expansion in to the debate That is not why the conflict is concentrated i… — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 16, 2022 Retweet

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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@Menshevik I am not sure why it is funny. I was ( from 1968 to 1975) in a Trotskyist group which condemned all Soviet invasions and contained no tankies . I was five in 1956, and can just remember Suez, but not Hungary. You must be quite old to be so authoritative. — PolitiTweet.org

@ClarkeMicah @neil_abrams That Peter Hitchens, who like his late brother, Christopher, was in the (Trotskyist) I.S.… https://t.co/G2lKM4Z9UP

Posted Oct. 16, 2022