Not surprisingly, Glenn Beck's documentary “Revolutionary Holocaust” was a giant, ahistorical waste of time. After arguing that Hitler was really a leftist because he and Karl Marx both had an affinity for genocide, Beck then “exposed” the already well-known atrocities committed by the world's communist dictators.

Promising to teach us about “the genocide you've never heard of” that “for some reason history has erased,” Beck embarked on a lengthy denunciation of Soviet mass murder under Stalin, focusing on the state-imposed famine in the Ukraine.

Seriously? Stalin's pogroms and political terrorism and genocidal policies have been forgotten? They've been “erased” from the history books?

Are you kidding me?

I can't speak for all the history books, but they certainly haven't been erased from the History Channel.

The justification for this “revelation” was offered by Beck's featured scholar, Liberal Fascism author and National Review columnist Jonah Goldberg, who said that people nowadays talk about Soviet communism as a “well-intentioned social experiment.”

I'm not sure who these people are, but I am sure they don't represent the consensus of historical thought.