A Hidden History of Evil

City Journal ^ | Spring 2010 | Claire Berlinski

[fightinJAG]

In the world’s collective consciousness, the word “Nazi” is synonymous with evil. It is widely understood that the Nazis’ ideology—nationalism, anti-Semitism, the autarkic ethnic state, the Führer principle—led directly to the furnaces of Auschwitz. It is not nearly as well understood that Communism led just as inexorably, everywhere on the globe where it was applied, to starvation, torture, and slave-labor camps. Nor is it widely acknowledged that Communism was responsible for the deaths of some 150 million human beings during the twentieth century. The world remains inexplicably indifferent and uncurious about the deadliest ideology in history.

[snip]

For instance, the documents cast Gorbachev in a far darker light than the one in which he is generally regarded. In one document, he laughs with the Politburo about the USSR’s downing of Korean Airlines flight 007 in 1983. . .

[snip]

Zagladin’s records also note that the former leader of the British Labour Party, Neil Kinnock, approached Gorbachev—unauthorized, while Kinnock was leader of the opposition—through a secret envoy to discuss the possibility of halting the United Kingdom’s Trident nuclear-missile program. The minutes of the meeting between Gorbachev and the envoy, MP Stuart Holland, read as follows:

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At the same time Holland noted that, of course, we can seriously think about realisation of that idea only if the Labour comes to power. He said Thatcher . . . would never agree to any reduction of nuclear armaments.

[snip]

“If the report given to Mr. Gorbachev is true, it means that Lord Kinnock approached one of Britain’s enemies in order to seek approval regarding his party’s defense policy and, had he been elected, Britain’s defense policy,” Batten said to the European Parliament in 2009. “If this report is true, then Lord Kinnock would be guilty of treason.”

[VOA]

“
led directly to the furnaces of Auschwitz.
“

As much as it pains me to recommend an production that aired on PBS...
“Auschwitz; Inside the Nazi State” is a keeper.

With the exception of most of the “intermission” discussions led
by lib-nut Linda Ellerbe.

[LiteKeeper]

Ten to twenty times as many people were murdered by their communist governments than by the Nazis.

[Mrs. Don-o]

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[Pontiac]

Perhaps it doesn’t surprise you to read that prominent European politicians held these views. But why doesn’t it? It is impossible to imagine that figures who had enjoyed such close ties to the Nazi Party—or, for that matter, to the Ku Klux Klan or to South Africa’s apartheid regime—would enjoy top positions in Europe today. The rules are different, apparently, for Communist fellow travelers. “We now have the EU unelected socialist party running Europe,” Stroilov said to me. “Bet the KGB can’t believe it.”

Because the boogyman of the USSR no longer exist (but doesn’t it?).

The fear of Soviet tanks rolling across Europe is no longer in the back of peoples’ minds. The specter of the Berlin Wall has been dismantled.

People no longer have a real fear of Communist infiltration (Hey; they are already the government, it’s to late to worry about it).

The generation that has just started to vote and just helped elect our first Communist President did not grow up with “Duck and Cover”, they also have not learned of the horrors that Communist Governments inflicted on their own people.

The reason that no one is interested in translating the USSR archive documents is the same reason that “We now have the EU unelected socialist party running Europe”.

[enraged]

I see nothing wrong with nationalism, radical nationalism is another animal. the same as islam is different from radical islam. Both lead to death for the supposed infidel.

[Pontiac]

“I know the time will come,” Stroilov says, “when the world has to look at those documents very carefully. We just cannot escape this. We have no way forward until we face the truth about what happened to us in the twentieth century. Even now, no matter how hard we try to ignore history, all these questions come back to us time and again.”

He is wrong about that.

Time marches on regardless of what we do or do not do.

But if we do not learn from the past, if we do not try to avoid the mistakes of others, if we do not change the failed murderous policies of communism it will be imposed on us again and we will spend another 70 or more years fighting to escape it.

[q_an_a]

You will find in this story taht Biden - no surprise adn Senator Dick Lugar from Indiana knew plenty about this and did not care. Lugar another one that needs to go. A suck up to Biden and all the rest of the Washington insiders...no friend of the people.

[Nateman]

[Para-Ord.45]

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[cricket]

'Everythinbg changes/nothing changes'. . .(Eastern Wisdom)

. . .or. . .what goes around. ..comes around/sigh. . .