pacifism, the left and the war: the peace taboos

"The Russians are coming." For the generation of baby boomers, there was hardly any political prophecy that seemed more stale. Russian fear - that smelled of Adenauer, Cold War and Communist Hatz. For every progressive peace-moving leftist, only expression of a ridiculous paranoia of the eternal spirits. Because, of course, the Russians never came. So at least not to us, to West Germany. There, as a leftist, one was outraged about the US interve…