There was a time when scholars and other writers in communist eastern Europe relied on writers and publishers in the free West to speak the truth about their history, their culture and their predicament. Today it is those who told the truth, not those who concealed or denited it, who are respected and welcome in these countries....
Historians in free countries have a moral and professional obligation not to shirk the difficult issues and subjects that some people would place under some sort of taboo; not to submit to voluntary censorship, but to deal with these matters fairly, honestly, without apologetics, without polemic, and, of course, competently. Those who enjoy freedom have a moral obligation to use that freedom for those who do not possess it.
How true is this still today. There needs to be more people opining on what is, and not writing in a balanced and fair way, that is a form of censorship, the truth should be all, its not about keeping friends or making foes, its about the moral imperative to report the truth, whether it hurts and enrages some. History will show those persons who follow this path
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