"By the time the facts of the socialist experiments are generally acknowledged, they have been nibbled to death by partial explanations and incomplete omissions, until they have become emotionally, morally, and politically distanced--mere curiosities of the historical past. Did Stalin kill twenty or thirty or fifty million of his own countrymen to create the socialist future in the U.S.S.R.? Did Mao kill twenty or thirty or fifty million during his Great Leaps and Cultural Revolutions. How many millions of dead people can dance on the head of the socialist pin?"
--Peter Collier and David Horowitz, Destructive Generation, 1989

Kind of like the Lewinsky admission. Deny deny deny, and then by the time you admit it, everyone says, "Old news. Let's talk about something else."

The question about the communist terrors is whether it is still relevent to today's political or moral issues.

Yep. Lewinsky (i.e. perjury) and Sandy Burglar are old news, nothing to see here, let's move on.

But the much to do about nothing Libby flap and Gonzalezgate still requires painfully long and useless scrutiny.

No bias there.