Posted on 09/18/2011 11:27:13 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand
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.
For evidence of this indifference, consider the unread Soviet archives. Pavel Stroilov, a Russian exile in London, has on his computer 50,000 unpublished, untranslated, top-secret Kremlin documents, mostly dating from the close of the Cold War. He stole them in 2003 and fled Russia. Within living memory, they would have been worth millions to the CIA; they surely tell a story about Communism and its collapse that the world needs to know. Yet he can’t get anyone to house them in a reputable library, publish them, or fund their translation. In fact, he can’t get anyone to take much interest in them at all.
Then there’s Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, who once spent 12 years in the USSR’s prisons, labor camps, and psikhushkas—political psychiatric hospitals—after being convicted of copying anti-Soviet literature. He, too, possesses a massive collection of stolen and smuggled papers from the archives of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, which, as he writes, “contain the beginnings and the ends of all the tragedies of our bloodstained century.” These documents are available online at bukovsky-archives.net, but most are not translated. They are unorganized; there are no summaries; there is no search or index function. “I offer them free of charge to the most influential newspapers and journals in the world, but nobody wants to print them,” Bukovsky writes. “Editors shrug indifferently: So what? Who cares?”
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I meant the book's critics including Noam Chomsky, not the summary itself.
arasina/JS
The West has collectively failed in exposing the crimes of Communism that go on until this day, unlike Nazism, defeated, eradicated just how many decades ago? The Jews have the right to obsess about Nazism, the rest of us should have a duty to bring justice to the Communism’s mass murderers. But guess what? (oh, you already know the story.) General Jaruzelski draws a generous pension, East German murderers found exile, where else, in South America, and our own country has elected a third generation stalinist (now a time adjusted sort of neo-stalinist) to the highest office in the land.
Because of the many many progressives that would be exposed, like the ACLU.... oh you thought they where on our side! The Soviets supported them financially all the way into the seventies. The many different anti-war groups, all got money from the commies. The Democratic Socialist party with 90 plus members in congress, got much money from the commies to pay for political campaigns. Are you getting the general idea?
read at home tonight BUMP!
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