Another quote from Jean-Francois Revel's

Anti-Americanism:

Discredited by its compacent indulgence of, or complicity in, Communist genocides, the Left never stops imagining fascist dangers culled from the museums of history. According to its own version of history, the only real twentieth-century totalitarianism was Nazism, or more generally fascism in its multiple forms. Hence the incessant drumming on the subject of Hitler, the Holocaust, Mussolini and Vichy, whereas the chronicle of Communism's crimes, which have continued long after 1945, is always subject to vigilant censorship. Any book devoted to the topic sets off a counteroffensive against its author (or authors), on whom are dumped cartloads of mendacious calumnies, above all the accusation of serving the interests of Nazism and anti-Semitism. This practice is aimed at discrediting them, so as to avoid the duty of having to formulate replies. [Footnote: For detailed descriptions of these tactics, I refer the reader to two of my own books: La Grande Parade (Plon, 2000; Pocket, 2001); and La Nouvelle Censure (Robert Laffont, 1977). In La Grande Parade I describe in particular the disgraceful defamatory treatment inflicted on the authors of The Black Book of Communism.] But it is the Left whose loyalties we have to question.

It is not surprising if students, in their manifestos and demonstrations, call upon a truncated version of history: this is the expurgated version that prevails in secondary and university education. Jacques Marseille, himself an hors caste (pariah) historian, recounts: "When I sat on the examining board of the HEC [Footnote: Ecole des hautes etudes commerciales: the top French business school, one of the Grandes Ecoles.], I often questioned the students about Stalinism. Most of them replied with a straight face that Uncle Joe's mistake was to prioritize capital goods over the consumer goods sector. Then I would ask them if they weren't aware of any more serious transgressions--the Gulag, for example.... Amazing!" [Footnote: Le Figaro, 26 April 2002.]
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The fundamental role of anti-Americanism in this agenda will be readily understood. Europe in general and its Left in particular absolve themselves of their own moral failings and their grotesque intellectual errors by heaping them onto the monster scapegoat, the United States of America. For stupidity and bloodshed to vanish from Europe, the U.S., contrary to every lesson of real history, must be identified as the singular threat to democracy. Even during the Cold War, although it was the U.S.S.R. that annexed Eastern Europe, made satellites out of several African countries and invaded Afghanistan, and although it was the People's Republic of China that marched into Tibet, attacked South Korea and subjugated three Indochinese countries, it remained dogma among Europeans--from Sweden to Sicily, from Athens to Paris--that the only power that could be fingered as "imperialistic" was America.

This is all on pp. 158-159 of the hard cover. This is pretty representative of his writing. It really draws you in. He also hammers European Rightists, like Jean-Marie le Pen, for their use of America as a scapegoat. If you're interested, buy the book.