19. Let's get to the unrecognized truth: although there is
no basis to believe that communism is any better than Nazism....worse if judged by numbers slaughtered....the two do not engender the same visceral reaction. Call some one a Nazi....fighting words! Communist? College professors and pretentious youth apply the term to themselves.
Soviet communism's mastery of manipulation accounts for the disparate knee-jerk reaction to Hitler, and the Nazis.....but the pass given to the far worse actors: Stalin and the communists.
Czeslaw Milosz's study, "The Captive Mind," attempts to explain that disconnect.
"The book attempts to explain both the intellectual allure of Stalinism and the temptation of collaboration with the Stalinist regime among intellectuals in post-war Central and Eastern Europe. Miłosz describes the book as having been written "under great inner conflict".
The Captive Mind - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
a. "['The Captive Mind'....the famous study of Communist totalitarian thinking, the reasons the Soviets encouraged a singular literary focus on the crimes of Hitler's Germany. 'Concentrating the reader's attention on German atrocities channeled their hatred into a single idrection and so contributed to the psycholoical prepartation' of the country" Milosz wrote. (p.126.)...
.what he describes, however, fits a stream of Hollywood movies for over half a century- one proximate cause of our numbness when it come to Soviet crime and all that."
West, "American Betrayal," p. 282.
20. A more sinister ' proximate cause of our numbness when it come to Soviet crime' is
the lies that Franklin Roosevelt told the public in support of Stalin.
Loy Henderson, State Department Russian expert said: "Russia does not fight for the same ideals as the United States."
Roosevelt swore to the American public the exact opposite: he declared that Stalin fought for the same ideals!
FDR was lying!
September 30, 1941, FDR claimed that there was freedom of religion in the USSR. "The claim that Stalin's Russia allowed religious freedom was the first step in
a massive pro-Soviet campaign that the White House coordinated for the duration of the war."
"Caught between Roosevelt and Stalin: America's Ambassadors to Moscow," by Dennis J. Dunn, p. 137
Yet, hordes of self-proclaimed intellectuals practice what of what Aquinas called 'ignorantia affectata - a cultivated ignorance'.
For them...and there are several who have made an appearance in this thread, nothing could be worse than revealing
the truth about FDR....just as he did with the Depression, he extended the war by years.