Pete Seeger repents of Stalinism

In a letter to his former banjo student and writer Ron Radosh, he confesses: "I think you're right – I should have asked to see the gulags when I was in USSR."
Pete Seeger testifying before House Un-American Activities Committee in 1955

Seeger has even written a song denouncing Josef Stalin, a song inspired by what he thought his mentor, Woody Guthrie, might have written about the fall of the Soviet Union had he been around.

It's called "The Big Joe Blues" – a song Radosh says "makes the point that Joe Stalin was far more dangerous and a threat than Joe McCarthy."

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