To the editor:

The makers of the latest Muppets movie decided to try and find humor in the Soviet gulag.  Why they think, as a New York Times writer put it in 1974, that  “the other great holocaust of the (20th) century” could be funny is, to say the least, odd. The gulag was “the imprisonment, brutalization, and very often murder, of tens of millions of innocent Soviet citizens by their own government.”

All audiences would be horrified if the Muppets danced through Dachau or Treblinka. Shouldn’t Hollywood find shame in dancing through the gulag? Why do left-wing tyrannies so often escape condemnation? Audiences would be enraged had the prison guard uniforms displayed swastikas instead of the Soviet hammer and sickle. Why do the atrocities of the gulag get swept into the dust-bin? Is this willful ignorance?

Hitler was number three; surpassed in murdering people by the Soviets and the Chinese Communists. We must never forget.