The cognitive process of explaining away the suffering caused by anti-communist purges, wars, and repression by embedding it within a broader, sanitized narrative of global conflict or historical inevitability. It uses concepts like "containment policy," "domino theory," or the binary of "the Free World vs. Totalitarianism" to create a framework where specific acts of violence lose their moral weight and become logical moves on a geopolitical chessboard.
Rationalization against Victims of Anti-communism Example: A historian arguing, "While the Vietnam War led to immense civilian casualties, it must be understood within the context of the U.S. policy of containment, which was a rational response to monolithic communist expansion as perceived at the time." This rationalization does not celebrate the harm but drains it of its human horror, transforming burned villages and massacres into abstract outcomes of a "rational" strategic doctrine.
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