Posted on 02/16/2014 6:05:35 PM PST by annalex
We are saying China and thus removing all other options of trade, letting China bully Japan, Taiwan, South Korea etc..
ANd it goes on like this.
We are Chinese suckers.
The Soviet Union was practically built by the Western powers, and it was defended against a sure defeat by Germany also by the Western powers.
It is not just propaganda though. The Bolshevik revolution was financed by the West and Stalin’s industrialization was done on American technology. Any Nuremberg-type trial might expose many people in the West, and not all of them would be journalists. See my preceding post, for example.
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It’s because communism is part of our id whereas Naziism is “other”.
Communism expresses our (”our” roughly meaning “the West’s”) nagging concerns about capitalism and therefore in some sense is part of us. The failures of communism as a governing system are huge and obvious, and if that were all it had to offer we would have wholly rejected it long ago. But we apparently find value in it as a critical voice against an unrestrained free market system and so we allow it to have a place in our politics and our thinking.
The Soviet Union wasn’t overrun and occupied by invading armies.
According to fellow traveler NBC Sports at the Olympics, Communism in Russia was just a pivotal experiment.
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"War to the hilt between communism and capitalism is inevitable. But today we are too weak to strike. Our day will come in 30 – 40 years. But first we must lull the capitalist nations to sleep with the greatest overtures of peace and disarmament known throughout history. And then, when their guard is dropped, we will smash them with our clenched fist.” Dimitri Manuilski — In a speech to the Lenin School for Political Warfare in Moscow in the 1930s.
With the exception of the time frame, it's all unfolding just as planned. Think Communism went away with the collapse of the Berlin Wall? You got lulled to sleep is all.
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Just started watching the movie - very good so far. Quote apropo for this thread.
“Hitler said it would be a thousand year Reich. Communism is forever.”
The reason the Germans and Japanese were so militarized in the decades before WWII was because they were neighbors with the USSR. They were terrified of the commies. Why in hell did we wind up on the same side as them?
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The same can be said of National Socialism: "Gas chambers were a bit excessive, but overall social harmony, strong leadership, self-reliance and state control over key industries is a critical voice against an unrestrained free market system", etc.
That's scary! Yet....Conservatives seem asleep. While conservatives run around chasing the latest political issue of the day, the Marxists have the kids.
Yes I think that is partly an explanation. The author touches on that when he talks about the peaceful end of the Soviet System: Gorbachev and Reagan had an understanding that no military advantage would be taken by the West, and Bush soft-pedaled the dissolution of the USSR with nauseating nonchalance.
Nevertheless nothing prevented the media from pressing for greater access to the archive and more historical research. They could be making triumphalist pieces in press and on television about the evils we've overcome. Instead, whatever research was done was buried by the media. For example, remember Venona intercepts? That could have been a matter of countless spy stories at the same time upsetting the conventional wisdom about McCarthyism. Nothing happened. That is because the identity of the media is rooted in the far Left political movement; they defend their own and the gathering and dissemination of information, that is, journalism is merely a cover.
No, the liberation of East Europe was not planned. The dissolution of the USSR was a considerable blow, and an unplanned one to receive. These people believed in the economic superiority of the Soviet economic system and could not understand how it could crumble.
That is correct. Hitler never wanted to fight Britain, and Japan would have been happy to just keep China as a colony.
Why in hell did we wind up on the same side as them?
You mean Hitler going for the Molotov pact? I think, he wanted to gain time to build up more. Same as Stalin, actually. Remember that the Red army was beaten in the beginning of the German-Soviet war not for lack of armaments but for lack of the spirit to fight. The Red soldier was (there are exceptions) ready to surrender. Numerically, the Red Army was superior to Germany.
On college level that's probably true.
Nearly all the teachers in this nation ( both in private and government K-12 schools) were trained by godless Marxists.
While surely not every teacher in this nation is a Marxist, the training does leak through into to the classroom.
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