How Stalin Fooled the World and Why It Matters Today

[Antares]

Why keep your brilliance to yourself?

Surely the World could use your superior knowledge of what is and what isn't communism?

Where was the Communism?

Good question as it surely was NOT found in Stalin's USSR

Most of the people who visited Stalinist Russia (and subsequently abandoned their affection for communism) were member of the AMERICAN COMMUNIST PARTY, lad.

Exactly, where, in what country you, Americans, saw "Communism"? You keep using this word, yet you can't answer the question above! How stupid are you not to distinguish between POLITICAL IDEAS and ECONOMIC SYSTEM????!!!!

Your "American Communist Party" has nothing in common with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. It's enough to point out that William Browder who robbed Russia blind in the 90-s, and who is strongly suspected of ordering the murder of his two former companions Safra and Magnitsky -- was a grandson of a leader of your American Communist Party!

There was no communism in Russia, that is certainly true.

I have no doubt that most genuine communists ended up in the gulags or in shallow graves with a bullet in the back of their heads...as did genuine anarchists, genuine socialists, and any other person or party that threatened the authority of STALIN.

What's you point, lad?

That most people here don't understand the difference between Communism and socialism?

Why should they?

Communism is about as real as a unicorn.

 

[Antares]

FDR's New Dealers were made up of many "fellow travelers" American's who had visited Russia and became completely enamored of their system.

Stalin DID fool some of the people some of the time.

But as many American communists went to Russia his reputation tarnished for many of them.

Communism was a passing fancy for many young people of my father's generation --people still stinging from their experiences during the great depression.

But as the evidence of Stalins repression became obvious, most of those people abandoned Communism as a system that failed and STalin as just anothr tyrant.

But that's the thing. During the great depression, many Americans were fed up with the government. They were pretty eager to make a change.

Part of FDR's legacy was he was able to stave that change off with progressive reforms.

 

[freedombecki]

horrors of Stalinism, though one might argue that Stalinism is the logical extension of Marxist-Leninism).

Yet another idiocy of an American brain.

1. "Horrors" of "Stalinism" exist only in the heads of Westerners poisoned by US post-WW2 propaganda machine they borrowed off Nazi Germany.

2. You already live in a society governed by IDEOLOGY of liberal Marxist-TROTSKIST postulates.

3. Socialism is NOT an ideology; it is an ECONOMIC SYSTEM that puts a stop to dictatorship of corporate financial and industrial elite. That's why socialism is so enthusiastically discredited in the West via corporate media and other propaganda tools.

Stalin's genocide of Kulaks through starvation:

Get it now mememe?

 

[American_Jihad]

horrors of Stalinism, though one might argue that Stalinism is the logical extension of Marxist-Leninism).

Yet another idiocy of an American brain.

1. "Horrors" of "Stalinism" exist only in the heads of Westerners poisoned by US post-WW2 propaganda machine they borrowed off Nazi Germany.

2. You already live in a society governed by IDEOLOGY of liberal Marxist-TROTSKIST postulates.

3. Socialism is NOT an ideology; it is an ECONOMIC SYSTEM that puts a stop to dictatorship of corporate financial and industrial elite. That's why socialism is so enthusiastically discredited in the West via corporate media and other propaganda tools.

Stalin's genocide of Kulaks through starvation:

Get it now mememe?

She has been brainwashed by the KGB, it's like trying to communicate to a rock...

 

[American_Jihad]

The Virtue of Lucidity: Yuri Glazov and the Fate of Communism


April 30, 2013 By Vladimir Tismaneanu

In 1985, the USSR seemed immortal. Most of the observers of Soviet affairs were aware of the insuperable systemic tensions (in Hegelian-Marxist parlance, “contradictions”), but very few anticipated the regime’s imminent end. In fact, such insights existed especially among the small and beleaguered dissident enclaves in the Soviet Union itself and in East-Central Europe. Most Western academics, however, were too busy to scrutinize the arcane workings of the Politburo and regarded the dissident activities as marred by romantic daydreaming. Dissidents could be admired, but not taken too seriously. There were exceptions, to be sure, among them Zbigniew Brzezinski, Robert Conquest, Leo Labedz, Martin Malia, Peter Reddaway, Richard Pipes, Robert C. Tucker and Adam Ulam.

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The Virtue of Lucidity: Yuri Glazov and the Fate of Communism | FrontPage Magazine

 

[American_Jihad]

Ideological Sociopath: Stalin Reads Machiavelli​

May 13, 2013 By Vladimir Tismaneanu

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I know that it might sound shocking, but one cannot deny the fact that Stalin had a Weltanschauung and that he was, in his own way, an intellectual. A self-taught, homicidal, liberticidal, and fanatical one, but an intellectual nevertheless. Wasn’t Engels a self-taught philosopher as well? Similarly, one cannot ignore the affinities between Bolshevism and the tradition of political and philosophical radicalism, Russian and European. Marxism was the apotheosis of ethical relativism; it suspended traditional distinctions between good and evil, it defined the good in utilitarian fashion, instrumentally and pragmatically, as all that served the cause of a Messianic proletariat, the alleged redemptive class. In fact, this was a recipe for what Alain Besancon (echoing Vladimir Soloviev) coined as the falsification of the good. In several annotations, long kept secret, Stalin defined his own table of values, he signaled out what he considered vice (or, sin, if you want) and virtue.

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Ideological Sociopath: Stalin Reads Machiavelli | FrontPage Magazine

 

[American_Jihad]

Stalin’s Secret Agents​

May 14, 2013 By Mark Tapson

Try a word association quiz with the phrase “Cold War,” and the first two responses that are almost certain to come to the mind of the general public are “paranoia” and “McCarthyism,” which is practically a synonym for paranoia. The common assumption, thanks to decades of public school indoctrination and the influence of leftist intellectuals, is that the Cold War, at least in its early decades, was all about suspicious Republicans fearing a Red under every bed and blacklisting innocents in Hollywood. But a recent book (the paperback edition hits bookshelves next month), lays out the historical evidence for massive Communist penetration of our government beginning in the New Deal era, increasingly rapidly during World War II, and afterward leading to gaping breaches of national security and the betrayal of free-world interests.

Contrary to the notion that domestic Communists were simply harmless, misguided idealists, Stalin’s Secret Agents: The Subversion of Roosevelt’s Government by M. Stanton Evans and Herbert Romerstein shows that widespread government infiltration by Soviet spies sabotaged our foreign policy and molded the post-WWII world in favor of the Soviet Union. Evans, the author of eight previous books including the controversial revised look at Joseph McCarthy called Blacklisted by History, is a former editor of the Indianapolis News, a Los Angeles Times columnist, and a commentator for the Voice of America. Romerstein is a leading Cold War expert, formerly head of the Office to Counter Soviet Disinformation at the U.S. Information Agency from 1983 until 1989, who has served on the staff of several congressional committees including the House Intelligence Committee.

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The lessons of this highly readable and concise history are well worth taking to heart today, not merely as an historical study, but as a reflection of the subversive infiltration and influence of the Muslim Brotherhood on our current administration.



Stalin?s Secret Agents | FrontPage Magazine

 

[whitehall]

Stalin didn't need to "fool the world". All he needed to do was to fool a sick tired old man who democrats convinced to run for a 4th term.

 

[American_Jihad]

The Politics of Resentment

July 26, 2013 By Vladimir Tismaneanu

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Glazov revisits some of the most notorious and tragic chapters in the history of Western gullibility, including the case of Walter Duranty, the “New York Times” Moscow correspondent during the Great Famine and the purges of 1936-1939 — about which Duranty knew everything but chose to lie. He denied that millions were starved to death by Stalin’s police state, and he endorsed (as did the U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, Joseph E. Davies), the Stalinist show trials. Unlike William E. Dodd, the U.S .ambassador to Nazi Germany, who despised and lambasted Hitler’s criminal regime, Davies accepted and even endorsed Stalin’s propaganda and regarded the victims of the Great Purge as genuine saboteurs and spies. In his memoir, “Mission to Moscow,” made into a Hollywood hit during the war, Davies glamorized Stalin’s tyranny as a popular regime. Mass terror was glossed over and the Davieses maintained cordial relations with Stalin’s clique.

At the Hillwood Collection in Washington one can see a superb Russian vase received as a gift by the Ambassador’s then wife, millionaire Marjorie Merriweather Post, from Madame Molotov, Polina Zhemchuzhina. An uninformed visitor would have no idea that the object was most likely the result of Bolshevik plundering of Russian old fortunes and that Mme Molotov was herself arrested in the late 1940s, tried and deported to the Gulag as a Zionist agent. The Molotovs’ grandson, political commentator Vyacheslav Nikonov, is, incidentally, one of Vladimir Putin’s chief propagandists.

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Unfortunately, the illusions of the radical leftists continue to misinform much of the public discourse in the West, including efforts to blame the U.S. for war and every misfortune from AIDS to global warming. Instead of seeing Islamism as an heir to the totalitarian movements of the last century, many leftists prefer to find justifications for the anti-Western anger they dispense.

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For these revolutionary oracles, radical Islam and Palestinian terrorism are purifying forces, catalysts of the “Great Refusal” (a term dear to Herbert Marcuse, once the guru of the counter-culture), whereas liberal capitalism is rotten, worthy only of being smashed. Unfortunately, such ideas are infectious and seem to have poisoned the minds of many young people in post-communist countries. Attacking capitalism as soulless, inhuman, mercantile, and philistine has become, once again, a favorite enterprise of the intelligentsia.

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The Politics of Resentment | FrontPage Magazine

 

[American_Jihad]

Stalin, Putin, and the Challenges of Memory

September 30, 2013 By Vladimir Tismaneanu

Polish thinker Leszek Kolakowski (often called the philosopher of “Solidarity) saw the post-communist landscape as marred by enduring Leninist legacies. He called these debris “moving ruins,” referring to the avatars of the old elites, the absence of moral clarity, and the persistence of ideological and cultural relics of the old regime. The first stage of the revolutions of 1989-1991 was dominated by an exhilarating sense of recovered liberty and the widespread belief that authoritarianism had been irreversibly defeated. Sociologist S. N. Eisenstadt accurately described those revolutions as non-utopian, non-ideological, non-eschatological. As a rule, they were non-violent eruptions of civic discontent against the supremacy of lies and the rampant cynicism of the communist bureaucracies. The thrust of the mass protests was favoring the dissident philosophy of freedom, civility, and dignity.

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Formed in the secretive culture of the KGB, “Czar Vladimir” remains deeply attached to the possessed founder of the Bolshevik secret police (the Cheka), Felix Dzerzhinsky, a Polish aristocrat who decided to give his early dream to become a priest and turned instead into a fanatic Leninist. The chapter dealing with the ongoing efforts to lionize this torturer is particularly revealing and deeply disturbing. In the same vein, Satter highlights the endeavors to instill a sense of admiration for Yuri Andropov, himself an adamant Leninist, who, as chairman of the KGB in the 1970s and 1980s, supervised the persecution of Soviet dissidents and the neutralization of any form of opposition.

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As a matter of fact, a few years ago Putin lamented the collapse of the USSR as “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the twentieth century”. For him and his former KGB cronies, pluralism remains the enemy. In this respect, Putin is more Stalin’s than Yeltsin’s heir. His ideology has little to do with Bolshevik mythologies, yet his mindset remains authoritarian and inimical to individual rights. His worldview is conspiratorial, sectarian, militaristic, and exclusive, a prolongation of Lenin’s Manichean political cosmology.

Stalin, Putin, and the Challenges of Memory | FrontPage Magazine

 

[American_Jihad]

Red Love

October 18, 2013 By Ron Radosh

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And so in the granddaughter, we get the hint of the birth of the New Left, drawn to Cuba as her ancestors were drawn to Stalin’s paradise. The girl, named Prim Rosenbaum, offers her poetry on how great Communist Cuba is. “We prayed in the sun in front of the healthiest cows I’d ever seen.” Would someone say anything like this? I know from my own experience how true his parody is. In my trip to Cuba with erstwhile Castroites in 1975, one member of our group, learning that the showplace psychiatric facility regularly lobotomized their patients, exclaimed: “We have to understand the difference between Communist lobotomies and capitalist lobotomies.”

And then there is that wonderful parody of Communist left-speak. Speaking about his wife, Solly Rubell writes that Dolly “is the most beautiful person I have ever met…She has such revolutionary anger; she never deviates from it. She referred to Eisenhower the other day as a ‘guttersnipe in striped pants.’ And ‘a privileged fascist dog.’…she talks that way to me. I have learned so much from her integrity.”

At another time, Solly Rubell says that not only has “the U.S.S.R. had improved the lot of the underdog,” it actually put an end to “most death as we know it.” Another character named Strugin — someone modeled on the CP’s late top ideologue and would-be historian, Herbert Aptheker, tells the narrator Lerner that in the Soviet Union, his thin hair would grow back “as a matter of course.” The real Herbert Aptheker, when a friend asked him to explain why anti-Semitism was so prevalent in the Soviet Union, responded: “There is no anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union. It is forbidden by Stalin’s Constitution.” Evanier knows the kind of apologia for terror that the American Reds regularly engaged in; he simply takes it one notch further by making it so ridiculous, that even an honest commie would realize that his own statements are just as foolish.

...Red Love | FrontPage Magazine

 

[American_Jihad]

A Farewell to Lenin: Stalin’s Litany of Vows


January 22, 2014 by Vladimir Tismaneanu

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In his “Letter to the Congress,” dictated in December 1922 and January 1923 to his secretary, Lydia Fotieva, Lenin requested Stalin’s replacement as general secretary. Politburo members read the document but decided to keep it secret. Lenin’s demands were ignored, denied, forgotten. The old leader’s power had vanished. Paeans were of course dedicated to him, he was lionized in poems and songs, his name was frantically chanted, but he had ceased to be the real decision-maker regarding the great strategic choices and bureaucratic appointments. By that moment, all the key-institutions of the totalitarian system had been set in place and made to function in order to preserve the Bolsheviks’ absolute hold on power. In the following years, the epigones, and Stalin more than anybody else, did their utmost to radicalize them and to exacerbate the exclusionary, genocidal logic of Leninism.

Lenin’s disciples preferred to maintain Stalin in a crucial position. With very few exceptions, they failed to realize that he who controls the cadres controls the party and thereby the whole system. When they became aware of this situation, it was tragically late. They had lost the battle. The Old Bolsheviks had been eliminated from crucial positions, politically emasculated, replaced by robot-like creatures totally subjugated by the supreme leader, the vozhd (the Bolshevik equivalent of what the Nazi would call the Fuhrer). Among those, some became utterly influential as members of Stalin’s entorurage: Lazar Kaganovich, Georgi Malenkov, Lev Mekhlis, and Nikolay Yezhov.

In 1929, Stalin unleashed the “revolution from above” and implemented Lev Trotsky’s militaristic program minus the proposals to observe a modicum of intra-party democracy. Lenin’s final opposition to the bureaucratic elephantiasis and his critique of the mendacious propaganda system were totally discarded. The Leninist creed was sacralized and mummified in order to legitimize the power appetite of a profitocratic nomenklatura, a parasytical caste claiming to represent the proletarian interests and values.

At the moment of Lenin’s demise, the party elite was beset by a well-camouflaged, yet fierce struggle between those who wanted to inherit his mantle. Stalin established an alliance with Lev Kamenev, the head of the Moscow party organization and Lenin’s deputy at helm of the Council of People’s Commissars, and with Grigory Zinoviev, the leader of the Petrograd (soon to be baptized Leningrad) organization and chairman of the Third International, also known as the Comintern, a supra-national institution created in 1919 to promote Leninist revolutionary ideas globally.

Thus, a troika emerged made up of Lenin’s epigones: Kamenev, Zinoviev, and Stalin. They shared a common hostility to Lev Trotsky, a Politburo member, the first commander of the Red Army, and a firebrand revolutionary apostle. In his “Letter to the Congress,” in fact his political testament, Lenin had called Trotsky “the most brilliant member of the Central Committee.” The triumvirs hated Trotky’s revolutionary extravaganzas, his undisguised sense of superiority, and his presumed Bonapartist inclinations. As early as 1923, when Lenin was still alive, Zinoviev had launched a furious campaign in defense of Bolshevism against the mortal peril, the extremely dangerous Trotskyist deviation. This was in fact a fabrication, a political chimera, a fantasy meant to vilify and demonize Trotsky. The Leninist cult found support also among the members of Nikolay Bukharin’ss faction.

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Stalinist mythologies: Lenin and Stalin, a painting by Aleksei Vasiliev.​

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All these themes were saliently featured in Stalin’s oath delivered in that frigidly cold January in Moscow. That text contained, in embryo, the Stalinist gospel. In spite of its monotonous discursive repetitions, the litany evolved in a crescendo of quasi-mystical devotion.Each paragraph begins with the magical words: “Departing from us, Comrade Lenin enjoined us…” Lenin emerges from this hagiographic apotheosis as eternally alive, unperishable, immortal. Lenin has become the vivid presence of a fallacious, temporary absence. Medieval superstitions did thus triumph within a political and ideological movement proudly dedicated to materialist philosophical principles. One doesn’t need to endorse Isaac Deutscher’s approach to Bolshevism in order to agree with him that Stalinism was a blending of Marxism and primitive magic.

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For Stalin, Trotsky embodied the opposite of his own vision of the professional revolutionary: cosmopolite, multi-lingual, with immense literary and philosophical readings, a brilliant journalist, a masterful stylist, and an electrifying orateur. Antipodically situated, Dzhugashvili was dark, dull, somber, a taciturn introvert, pathologically suspicious of everyone and everything. Like Lenin, Trotsky belonged to an international fraternity of Central Europeans socialists, he had known Karl Kautsky, Rosa Luxemburg and many others. He had read Goethe, Schiller, Heine, Lassale, and Marx in German. Yet, this superiority was misleading and did not help him in the terrible, unsparing competition with Stalin. He committed a huge mistake by calling Dzhugasvili “the Central Committee’s most notorious mediocrity.” Narcissistic arrogance was Trotsky’s main weakness for which he was to finally pay with his life.

In his “Oath,” Stalin forcefully highlighted the themes that were to energize him in his endeavor to demonstrate that he outdid all his rivals in terms of deep dedication to Lenin’s desires:

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A Farewell to Lenin: Stalin?s Litany of Vows | FrontPage Magazine

 

[Theowl32]

We also knew that if we went to war with the Soviet union in 1945, we would not have won.

In 1945? Of course we would have won.

The only person who thought that was Patton, and he LIVED to make war.

Hi commie. Your red commie bullshit is just that.

Our country (America) was at full strength. Maybe you do not know this, but no country actually bombed America's factories over here. Our infrastructure was totally in tact.

What does that mean from a logistical point of view? Patton was exactly right from a strategic point of view. The Russians army were disseminated and totally worn out. Our hardware was already there.

Would have won just from an attrition perspective.

Also, Stalin was trying to drum something up against the west already. He negotiated a deal with Japan to surrender to him, cause Stalin was very interested in getting those trade routes in the east.

Perhaps you did not know that the Soviets declared war on Japan in 1945, when they reneged and surrendered to the US. Now, the Soviets (Stalin) was very upset over this.

Soviets declare war on Japan; invade Manchuria ? History.com This Day in History ? 8/8/1945

Hence the reason the US drops the second bomb on Aug 9th 1945.

Oh, Aug. 8th 1945, Stalin declared war on Japan, the next day the US dropped the second bomb. Not to stop Japan, but to show USSR what was about to happen.

Of course many of the Russian Jews that had began emigrating to the America's from the late 19th century were Stalin loyalists and were indeed communists. From the Emma Goldman types (great liberal hero) to the Rosenbergs. WHO, betrayed this country (really the world) in ways that the world would never recover.

This is where the Charles Schumers and their types come from, and why 90% of them vote and desire this socialist style of government. They are a very stubborn people, and these old stories were passed down generation to generation since the Jews began emigrating here from the Russian country.

The bottom line is America had the capability to destroy the USSR. Unless you think distinct logistical advantages (like America's entire infrastructure in tact as far as war factoris etc etc) were not a big deal. You cannot possibly be that stupid. To say nothing of the fact that the Rosenbergs had not yet betrayed the world and the USSR had nothing to match the fire power of the A bomb.

There, you and people like you have been educated.

USA > USSR

Capitalism > Communism/Socialism

Eat shit communists. Eat shit.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Stalin is one of the liberal founding fathers.

 

[American_Jihad]

'Trumbo' Betrays Victims of Soviet Anti-Semitism
Whitewashing a defender of Stalin's brutal crimes.
November 18, 2015
Lloyd Billingsley

The late Soviet dictator Josef Stalin made a name for himself by murdering millions, as Nikita Khrushchev and other Soviet bosses acknowledged. In The Untold History of the United States, co-author and Academy Award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone lists only two atrocities for Stalin. So it should come as no surprise that an American Stalinist screenwriter should be the subject of a movie such as Trumbo, currently making the rounds.

Dalton Trumbo made a name for himself, and a lot of money, by churning out screenplays based on producers’ ideas. For decades he has been cast as a noble artist, a victim of McCarthyism, and a champion of free speech and constitutional rights. None of that is true but there’s more to the man than anyone will find in Hollywood legend. In a famous speech, Trumbo claimed that Hollywood’s political wars yielded “only victims.” In Trumbo’s heyday victims did indeed abound, but they don’t show up in the movies.

In August 1939 Stalin and Hitler signed a pact that divided up Europe and effectively started World War II. Many German Jewish Communists had fled to the Soviet Union but during the Pact Stalin handed those Jews over to the Gestapo. The Stalin-Hitler Pact prompted many to abandon the Communist Party, never to return, but Dalton Trumbo was not one of those. Trumbo joined the Communist Party during the Pact and worked like Stakhanov for the cause.

In Communist Party doctrine, art is a weapon and writers were “artists in uniform” serving a political purpose. Trumbo, who aspired to be a novelist, was comfortable with that concept. In 1940, when Britain stood alone against Nazi attack, Trumbo wrote The Remarkable Andrew in which the ghost of General Andrew Jackson argues against American military aid to Britain because “there’s no point in cooking up an alliance with a country that’s already licked.”

After Hitler broke the Pact and invaded his ally, the Party scribes became patriotic pro-war militants. Trumbo wrote scripts for A Guy Named Joe and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo. He also cooperated with the FBI investigating writers who might be anti-war. This was the heyday of Soviet adulation and Communist writers played a major role.

The film Mission to Moscow, which some dubbed “Submission to Moscow,” appeared in 1943. That year the first Soviet Jewish delegation to the United States assured Americans that tales of anti-Semitism in the USSR were no more than malicious rumors. Samuel Ornitz, who would later join Trumbo in the Hollywood Ten, organized a reception for Soviet actor-director Solomon Mikoels and writer Itzak Feffer.

After the war the USSR occupied half of Europe and proclaimed the USA the main enemy. Stalin swung the USSR back to its traditional anti-semitism, deriding Jews as “rootless cosmopolitans.” In 1948, Stalin had Mikoels murdered, his mutilated body signaling the dictator’s personal touch. Three years later an executioner’s bullet claimed Itzak Feffer. Many more Jews would have been killed had not Stalin died in 1953.

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'Trumbo' Betrays Victims of Soviet Anti-Semitism

 

[JimBowie1958]

Stalin did not fool anybody.

Well, not for long at any rate.

He fooled the New York Times editors for decades.

 

[JimBowie1958]

'Trumbo' Betrays Victims of Soviet Anti-Semitism
Whitewashing a defender of Stalin's brutal crimes.
November 18, 2015
Lloyd Billingsley

The late Soviet dictator Josef Stalin made a name for himself by murdering millions, as Nikita Khrushchev and other Soviet bosses acknowledged. In The Untold History of the United States, co-author and Academy Award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone lists only two atrocities for Stalin. So it should come as no surprise that an American Stalinist screenwriter should be the subject of a movie such as Trumbo, currently making the rounds.

Dalton Trumbo made a name for himself, and a lot of money, by churning out screenplays based on producers’ ideas. For decades he has been cast as a noble artist, a victim of McCarthyism, and a champion of free speech and constitutional rights. None of that is true but there’s more to the man than anyone will find in Hollywood legend. In a famous speech, Trumbo claimed that Hollywood’s political wars yielded “only victims.” In Trumbo’s heyday victims did indeed abound, but they don’t show up in the movies.

In August 1939 Stalin and Hitler signed a pact that divided up Europe and effectively started World War II. Many German Jewish Communists had fled to the Soviet Union but during the Pact Stalin handed those Jews over to the Gestapo. The Stalin-Hitler Pact prompted many to abandon the Communist Party, never to return, but Dalton Trumbo was not one of those. Trumbo joined the Communist Party during the Pact and worked like Stakhanov for the cause.

In Communist Party doctrine, art is a weapon and writers were “artists in uniform” serving a political purpose. Trumbo, who aspired to be a novelist, was comfortable with that concept. In 1940, when Britain stood alone against Nazi attack, Trumbo wrote The Remarkable Andrew in which the ghost of General Andrew Jackson argues against American military aid to Britain because “there’s no point in cooking up an alliance with a country that’s already licked.”

After Hitler broke the Pact and invaded his ally, the Party scribes became patriotic pro-war militants. Trumbo wrote scripts for A Guy Named Joe and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo. He also cooperated with the FBI investigating writers who might be anti-war. This was the heyday of Soviet adulation and Communist writers played a major role.

The film Mission to Moscow, which some dubbed “Submission to Moscow,” appeared in 1943. That year the first Soviet Jewish delegation to the United States assured Americans that tales of anti-Semitism in the USSR were no more than malicious rumors. Samuel Ornitz, who would later join Trumbo in the Hollywood Ten, organized a reception for Soviet actor-director Solomon Mikoels and writer Itzak Feffer.

After the war the USSR occupied half of Europe and proclaimed the USA the main enemy. Stalin swung the USSR back to its traditional anti-semitism, deriding Jews as “rootless cosmopolitans.” In 1948, Stalin had Mikoels murdered, his mutilated body signaling the dictator’s personal touch. Three years later an executioner’s bullet claimed Itzak Feffer. Many more Jews would have been killed had not Stalin died in 1953.

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'Trumbo' Betrays Victims of Soviet Anti-Semitism

Great author and the movie was OK, but I could not suspend disbelief for long as I have some familiarity with history and know the old American commies to be the hypocrital sons of bitches they have always been.

 

[American_Jihad]

Winning Eurovision Song Remembers Communist Atrocities
“They come to your house, they kill you all.”
May 17, 2016
Lloyd Billingsley

The song “1944,” by singer-songwriter Susana Jamaladynova who performs as Jamala, has won the 2016 Eurovision song contest for Ukraine. This victory makes the annual event something more than a musical competition.

“1944” recalls Stalin’s mass deportation of Crimean Tatars. As the Guardian explained, Stalin accused the Tatars of collaborating with Nazi forces who occupied the Crimean peninsula and in 1944 forcibly moved them to central Asia and other remote areas. Between 20 and 50 percent of the deportees died within the first two years of exile.

For Jamala, it’s more than a historical reference. The deportees included her great-grandmother, her four sons, and one daughter. So as she told reporters in February, the song “really is about my family.”

“When strangers are coming,” the lyrics explains, “they come to your house, they kill you all and say, we’re not guilty.” Her parents and family still live on the Crimean peninsula but she has not been back there since 2014, the year Putin’s forces moved in. That year, current presidential candidate Hillary Clinton waded into the Ukrainian crisis by invoking history.

Referring to Vladimir Putin’s plans to provide passports to Russians outside the nation’s borders, she said it was “what Hitler did back in the ‘30s.” Clinton ignored the “back in the ‘30s” history most applicable to Ukraine. The shot-caller then was Joseph Stalin, and he set out to crush all vestiges of Ukrainian nationalism, as Russian tyrants had done for ages. In his forced collectivization campaign, Stalin raised Ukraine’s grain procurement quotas by 44 percent.

That meant that there would not be enough grain to feed the people, but to make sure, Stalin also deployed regular troops and secret police units in a merciless war of attrition. And that condemned millions to death by starvation. That is genocide by any standard, but for Stalin it was a big success. As one of his commanders said, it showed the Ukrainians “who is the master here.” Walter Duranty of the New York Times denied that any famine had taken place and won a Pulitzer Prize.

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One finds no such hesitation in Susana Jamaladynova, and the victory of “1944” keeps hope alive for songs about the Katyn Forest massacre and Stalin’s delivery of German Jews to the Gestapo during the Nazi-Soviet Pact. In the interest of diversity, maybe somebody could compose a tune about the Cultural Revolution, which according to the New York Times claimed 1.5 million lives. As an inscription on one grave had it “Heads can roll, blood can flow, but Mao Zedong Thought must never go.” 1944 wasn’t the only time Communists came to somebody’s house, killed everybody, and said they were not guilty.

Winning Eurovision Song Remembers Communist Atrocities

 

[sharik]

Stalin accused the Tatars of collaborating with Nazi forces

by right so, what 'atrocities'? Stalin is not known for committing atrocities or something of the sort.

 

[sharik]

The late Soviet dictator Josef Stalin made a name for himself by murdering millions,

he did not murder anyone, leave alone millions. Stalin had built the country from scratch after the civil war. Russians thrived under his rule.

as Nikita Khrushchev and other Soviet bosses acknowledged.

nice how Western spin doctors take the word of Bolsheviks or Communists when fits them and ignore it whenever want.