[T.L.Sink]

What's utterly astounding is how ALL elements in our society were either duped or indifferent. Many victims were dragged off to death or slavery by the NKVD in the new Soviet-built Ford Model A cars. The ultimate capitalist, Henry Ford, had signed his contract in Dearborn, providing the NKVD's entire fleet. The long list of apologist's for Stalin's terror - who denied its very existence - included the Vice President of the United States and a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter. America's wartime policy did more than just prettify Stalin. Lend-Lease aid was used to supply and repair Liberty ships sent to the Soviet Union for wartime use - supposedly against the Nazis. Fully HALF of them, we learn, were used to send new slave laborers to the arctic Kolyma camp. "NKVD steamers," the author calls them, "were reconditioned at the expense of American taxpayers, before their quick return to service as the "death ships" of the Sea of Okhotsk." [Much more to the review AND the book. Penguin 488 pp. $29.95]

[21twelve]

“...but the majority were average Americans - skilled workers promised paid passage, jobs at high pay, paid vacations, and free medical care.”

How timely.

[thatdewd]

BTTT!

[nkycincinnatikid]

Now wait a minute here, when did Henry Ford beconme a Communist? Wasn’t he a Nazi in the last episode?

[piasa]

history ping

[wgflyer]

If one didn’t already know, one might wonder why liberals are so hesitant to allow history to be taught in school......so much to learn!

Great post.

[AnalogReigns]

“...but the majority were average Americans - skilled workers promised paid passage, jobs at high pay, paid vacations, and free medical care.”

I'm sorry, but Lenin and his minions were godless brutes from the very beginning--and Tzarist Russia before that, was also a tyranny.

Any American who knew anything at all about Russia, even before Stalin, would have been a fool to go there from the USA, Great Depression, Dust Bowl, and all.

[Savage Beast]

Davies and his comrades would be very much at home in the Democrat Party of the 21st century.

[Lorianne]

Wow. Thanks for posting. Americans are so uneducated about these things. Never taught in schools to this day.

[tet68]

Get a copy of “The Alexander Dolgun Story”.

Mr. Dolgun was the son of an american engineer who went to work in Russia in the 1930s. He was employed part time at the US embassy. On his way to work he was arrested by the organs and interrogated, he was sentenced under article 58 and served 14 years in the gulag. Finally released under the Khrushchev amnesty he was reunited with his american sister and finally managed to emigrate to the west.

Another view of the soviet system.