Is such that they will literally defend a man who admitted to
spoiler
taking over 100 fully nude photos of his adopted pre-teen daughter, completely buying his claims that he “had to” for “medical reasons”
entirely because he writes about how the Soviet Union was bad.
There is no difference between anticommunism and pedophilia. - Source: LOTS of personal experience.
Lot’s of zoophilia stuff among the anticommunists too (particularly the dictatorships in Latin America – wonder if they learned that at Fort Benning). Just gross, awful creatures, the lot of them.
The historian said the nude photos had been taken to document the development of the child’s malnourishment in case of problems with social services, as she had been underweight when he and his wife adopted her.
Maybe they do things differently in Russia but in California this sort of thing would be verified by regularly scheduled doctor’s checkups (children in the system get MediCal, so it’s free to the parent). Even if they didn’t you could just log the child’s weight on a normal scale to show that they’re on track for their height and age.
