It's not a dusroiryion, she's said it often enough over the years. Whether she actually believes it is another matter.

And in no way did I go in for "fabricating an association with Hitler." My point was that calling the anti-semitic Joseph Stalin a hero is not that qualitatively different from calling Adolf Hitler a hero. If anybody took my post at 17 Dec 03 - 01:14 PM
as a genuine quote from Ms Burchill, I'm sorry, but I find it hard to believe that anyone reading the thread could have done so.

The other people cited who had expressed admiration for Stalin had a plausible excuse in that, at the time they were doing this, this aspect of the gentleman was less generally known. That excuse wasn't available to Julie Burchill - and the fact that her parents were Communists is neither here nor there. Everyione has parents, and it seems to me more often than not we differ from them in politics.