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The direct argument that the persecution, violence, and human rights abuses committed in the name of combating communism—such as coups, death squads, blacklisting, and repression—were necessary, righteous, or defensive actions. It frames victims (union organizers, leftist intellectuals, peasant movements) as legitimate threats to national security, social order, or "the free world," whose suffering was a justified cost of preventing a greater totalitarian evil.
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