[CondoleezzaProtege]

Miroslav Marynovych is survivor of seven years of hard labor in one of the harshest prison camps in the Soviet gulag – Perm 36:

“We are dealing now with the consequences of the injustice made by the 1945 Yalta agreement. Firstly, it created double standards in evaluating the crimes of totalitarian systems: Nazi crimes were publicly and totally condemned; Communist crimes were covered up by security imperatives and almost taken out of ethical evaluation.”

“For many people in the West, Nazi Germany was an absolute evil, while the Communist Soviet Union was a victorious good with some occasional dark spots on its shining garments. What was forgotten was the fact that the main winner of the war, Stalin’s Soviet Union, entered the war as an ally of its main begetter, Hitler’s Germany.”

"The world heard the pain of victims of Gestapo and didn’t hear that of victims of the NKVD.” As Leszek Kolakowski ironically put it: “Should a prisoner who was dying in Vorkuta, Siberia be pleased… with the fact that he avoided the same fate in Dachau? The moral equation of Nazism and communism is, from my point of view, absolutely justified and even necessary.”

[CondoleezzaProtege]

In the same week, Google and Youtube also caved to Kremlin: by removing several widely watched opposition ads in the midst of Russia's regional elections and corresponding protests where over 800 people were detained including minors and the elderly:

All aboard the revisionist choo-choo.

America's own Walmart has started selling Soviet throwback apparel despite concerns expressed by the embassies of Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia - where Soviet symbols are banned along with swastikas.

[BenLurkin]

Dear AP

I am reminded of what I once heard a judge say to a lawyer who was desperately parsing words during oral argument

Quote: “No matter how thin you slice it, it’s still baloney.”

[raiderboy]

This is good. We want they real history not leftist revisionist history driven by false narrative.

[antidisestablishment]

“Should a prisoner who was dying in Vorkuta, Siberia be pleased… with the fact that he avoided the same fate in Dachau?“

An incredibly painful death, or a protracted death by deprivation? It’s no wonder Germans fled in droves to surrender to the Western nations. They knew the fate of anyone “liberated” by Uncle Joe.

22,000 American POWs ended up in Stalin’s “care”. Amost 800 Airmen who had the misfortune to crash in Russian territory were interned as POWs for the duration, rather than being returned to Allied Forces.

Only God knows the true numbers and their final dispositions.

[alexander_busek]

The news agency explained that the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact [...] was a non-aggression pact that also included the delineation of spheres of interest between the two countries in eastern Europe, and it paved the way for the German and near simultaneous Soviet invasion of Poland that triggered the beginning of the war. [...]

"In 1939, despite sharp ideological differences, the two powers entered into a non-aggression pact that paved the way for them to carve up Poland and for the Soviet Union to take the Baltic states of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia," AP wrote. "That pact was never formally recognized as an alliance [...]

Okay, then call it what it was: A deal with the Devil - or rather, a deal between two devils.

Regards,

[MarchonDC09122009]

It’s historically truthful posts like this one and knowledgeable comments that make FR the Lifelong Learner U it is.