A prominent British historian has warned that 'moral equivalence' in university teaching is encouraging students to downplay Joseph Stalin's crimes and think positively of communism.
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Ms Lali said: 'Historically I would say it would be inaccurate and unfair to say that communism has failed because really it hasn't had the chance to develop.
'In the Soviet Union you can't say that it was allowed to develop or flourish in the way that it could have done because the U.S. and Britain were all involved in attacking it.
'They still had major gains, the democratically-planned economy, there's a lot of advantages and there's a lot of gains from the Soviet Union.'