Pelosi's Favorite Stalinist

Weekly Standard ^ | Jun 25, 2007 | JOSHUA MURAVCHIK

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In 2001, [Pelosi] took to the pages of the Congressional Record to effuse her sentiments on the hundredth anniversary of Harry Bridges's birth, an occasion celebrated only by a gnostic few.

Here is what she said: "Harry Bridges [was] arguably the most significant labor leader of the twentieth century," who was "beloved by the workers of this Nation, and recognized as one of the most important labor leaders in the world." She added: "The International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union [was] the most progressive union of the time." In other words, this Communist-run union was more admirable than all of the anti-Communist unions.

Pelosi delivered this encomium a full nine years after Bridges's membership in the CP Central Committee had been revealed.

[A]fter the fall of the USSR, and the opening of Soviet archives, did the truth emerge that Bridges had been not merely in the party but a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party USA, a position for which the documents show he was directly approved by the Kremlin.

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Rep. Pelosi's remarks in the Congressional Record, July 27, 2001 http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-2001-07-27/pdf/CREC-2001-07-27-pt1-PgE1460-5.pdf#page=1

Sen. Boxers remarks in the Congressional Record, July 24, 2001 http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-2001-07-24/pdf/CREC-2001-07-24-pt1-PgS8118-4.pdf#page=1

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