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To: the invisib1e hand
Yes, our academic historians, our entertainment industry, our media, etc. have ignored the plague that communism has been in the world. Stalin was one of the most heinous mass murderers in human history, but no one uses his name as a derogatory political label the way Hitler's is used.

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.

8 posted on 09/18/2011 11:41:43 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: pieceofthepuzzle

More than an element. When Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were allies, the American left was told by its Kremlin masters to stop criticizing Hitler. After Hitler invaded Russia, FDR’s administration traitors went to work full time.


11 posted on 09/18/2011 11:48:42 AM PDT by ozzymandus
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