....that they didn't adore.
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
So saith the American philosopher George Santayana.
No where is that more clearly illustrated than in the beliefs and actions of American Liberals/Progressives/Democrats.
As this thread will so demonstrate.
1.
Communism, a political philosophy born of slaughter, bloodshed, genocide and oppression. Beyond evil, it's
failures in economics and governance are well documented. So....who would endeavor to repeat it?
Answer: Liberals/Progressives/Democrats
2. A brief history of it's home-base, mother Russia, includes
9 million killed in the civil war, 1917-1922; Stalin's regime, 1924-1953, over
20 million slaughtered; (
Twentieth Century Atlas - Death Tolls
Add in the communist spin-offs in China, Cambodia, Cuba, Viet Nam, etc., and the number goes well beyond
100 million mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, lives counted as less important than the victory of communism.
And this is the hallmark of every totalist view, communism, Nazism, socialism, Liberalism, Progressivism.....the life of the individual may never be considered, only the collective, the state, the "general will" is paramount.
3. Under the auspices of
Franklin Roosevelt, the United States drew closer, and embraced, the Communist regime of Joseph Stalin. FDR Democrats covered for, ignored, and made excuses for massacres, genocide, government instituted famines and lies of every variety. The same view of communism has persisted 'til this very day among
Democrat elites and leaders.
a. When one of the many communist agents in his administration was identified, Alger Hiss, President Roosevelt promoted him.
b. January 25th, 1950 Alger Hiss sentenced for perjury for denying he was a Soviet spy
Dean Acheson, Truman’s Sec’y of State, said: “I do not intend to turn my back on Alger
Hiss.”
4. One would be hard pressed to find any request by Joseph Stalin that did not find a willing response from FDR, from Lend-Lease to the direction of Allied military operations, and refusal to accept the surrender of Germany.
Just maybe,
the Kravchenko case might be one time FDR hesitated to fulfill Stalin's commands.....
Roosevelt regularly lied to the American public about Russia having the same values as the United States, and censored any news to the contrary. Victor Kravchenko told the truth about Stalin's Russia.
a. Victor Kravchenko was one of the first and most influential Soviet defectors to the United States, who had written "I Chose Freedom," a searing account of life under Stalin, denouncing the Stalin regime for failure to grant political and civil liberties to the Russian people.
"The Anti-Communist Manifestos: Four Books That Shaped the Cold War," John Fleming, p. 182-183
b. Kravchenko wanted to shatter those illusions.
His defection was front-page news and prompted debate at the highest levels of government, up to and including President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Stalin demanded that he be turned over as a traitor--an automatic death sentence.
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover urged FDR to let him stay.
On April 13, 1945, the day after Roosevelt died, Kravchenko received notice that his application for asylum had been granted.
Searching for Tato - LA Times
It's the same with all socialist/communist revolutions, same as it is with the Regime in the White House: The end justifies the means, no amount of lies matter as long as their agenda is advanced. No amount of lives lost matter as long as their agenda is advanced.
In reality, dishonesty is a requirement for them to stay in power and advance their agenda.
Perhaps Roosevelt was ambivalent about sending Kravchenko back to the tender mercies of Uncle Joe, as Kravchenko was head-line news throughout the nation....and only after Roosevelt's death did Kravchenko receive notice of asylum.
Had Roosevelt lived.....who knows....
