-and that Hollywood which still (rightfully) paints Nazis as villians never has a badword even for the likes of Stalin or Lenin---
Soviet is the equal of Nazi, as Mao is the equal of Hitler, and now we have the up and coming Obama who would surpass all the worlds despots, if only he could.
Aided by the Leftists around the world. Sadly if you try to explain to people about the Evil of Communism you get shouted down and then they recite the tired lines about Corporations.
Do an internet search on “Ukraine famine.”
There are tons of movies about the Nazi's and HItler, but I can't recall any in recent memory about the evil of communism, the suffering in the USSR, or the heinous crimes of Stalin and others. Why wasn't the Gulag Archipelago ever made into a movie, or documentary series etc. (there was a French documentary, but I'm not aware of an American one)? Why isn't it required reading in high school, or college? Why aren't there movies about the victory of America and the West over the USSR and communism in the cold war?
Recently a Freeper commented that the American left only supported WWII because we were fighting on the same side as the Soviet Union. I think there is probably an element of truth to this.
Uh....could it be because the Historians tasked with sifting through the records actually agreed with and supported what the Soviets were trying to do? Can I get a DUH! from the crowd??
“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.”
Wikileaks?
I thought Putin closed the Soviet archives back in 2001.
Where are the conservatives and libertarians? Those groups have people of wealth and they have think tank organizations that publish all kinds of stuff.
Because western academia is still full of communists. Similarly, nazi era documents related to the neo-pagan aspects of nazism have never been translated.
The Communist Book of the Dead was published, and there are publishers and Think Tanks aplenty. I find it hard to believe that we’re getting the whole story, here.
Most american’s are indifferent to evil. The soviets were the focus of evil in the modern world.
Oh yeah, publicizing those files would do ‘our’ media and academia so much good...
Hard to understand why those bright patriots would want the info suppressed...
I’m stumped!
Don’t I know it.
Although, my personal ultimate synonym for “evil” is “Islam”.
Thank you for posting this fascinating article. This snippet is interesting for those who haven’t read the article in its entirety:
“And what of Zagladin’s description of his dealings with our own current vice president in 1979?
“Unofficially, [Senator Joseph] Biden and [Senator Richard] Lugar said that, in the end of the day, they were not so much concerned with having a problem of this or that citizen solved as with showing to the American public that they do care for “human rights.” . . . In other words, the collocutors directly admitted that what is happening is a kind of a show, that they absolutely do not care for the fate of most so-called dissidents.
“Remarkably, the world has shown little interest in the unread Soviet archives. That paragraph about Biden is a good example. Stroilov and Bukovsky coauthored a piece about it for the online magazine FrontPage on October 10, 2008; it passed without remark. Americans considered the episode so uninteresting that even Biden’s political opponents didn’t try to turn it into political capital. Imagine, if you can, what it must feel like to have spent the prime of your life in a Soviet psychiatric hospital, to know that Joe Biden is now vice president of the United States, and to know that no one gives a damn.”
And a transcript of Gorbachev’s conversation with Hans-Jochen Vogel, the leader of West Germany’s Social Democratic Party, shows Gorbachev defending Soviet troops’ April 9, 1989, massacre of peaceful protesters in Tbilisi.According to Zagladin’s reports, for example, Kenneth Coates, who from 1989 to 1998 was a British member of the European Parliament, approached Zagladin on January 9, 1990, to discuss what amounted to a gradual merger of the European Parliament and the Supreme Soviet.
Or consider a report on Francisco Fernández Ordóñez, who led Spain’s integration into the European Community as its foreign minister. ...Eighteen months later, Ordóñez told Gorbachev: “I feel intellectual disgust when I have to read, for example, passages in the documents of ‘G7’ where the problems of democracy, freedom of human personality and ideology of market economy are set on the same level. As a socialist, I cannot accept such an equation.”
Perhaps most shockingly, the Eastern European press has reported that Stroilov’s documents suggest that François Mitterrand was maneuvering with Gorbachev to ensure that Germany would unite as a neutral, socialist entity under a Franco-Soviet condominium.
...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. In 2004, and his wife, Glenys, is now Britain’s minister for Europe. Gerard Batten, a member of the UK Independence Party, has noted the significance of the episode. “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.”
Similarly, Baroness Catherine Ashton, who is now the European Union’s foreign minister, was treasurer of Britain’s Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament from 1980 to 1982. The papers offer evidence that this organization received “unidentified income” from the Soviet Union in the 1980s. Stroilov’s papers suggest as well that the government of the current Spanish EU commissioner for economic and monetary affairs, Joaquín Almunia, enthusiastically supported the Soviet project of gradually unifying Germany and Europe into a socialist “common European home” and strongly opposed the independence of the Baltic states and then of Ukraine.