Jeremy Corbyn did not threaten anyone with imprisonment, starvation or execution. At most, he intended to reduce Britain’s billionaires to the status of multi-millionaires by taxation. To compare this to the persecution of the kulaks was to trash history and language, and insult all of Stalin’s victims. Johnson’s inflammatory falsehood was emblazoned in large bold type over the front page of the Daily Telegraph. This is one of many examples of mainstream media complicity in amplifying Johnson’s lies and falsehoods,
