Posted on 06/14/2020 4:38:36 AM PDT by C19fan
There is a photograph taken in 1937 which shows Stalin walking along the Moscow canal with three lieutenants. Yet in a version issued 12 months later, only two can be seen. The missing man is Nikolai Yezhov, a Soviet commissar who, executed in a purge, had vanished not just from office, but from the photo, too. Plucked from history by Stalin. I left the USSR and came to Britain in 1988. When I did so, I left a country of censorship, conformism and authoritarianism for a free-thinking land of rules and democratic debate.
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What Stalin did to Russia, Democrats will do to us.
Other than among people like us with long memories, when was the last time you've heard names like Vince Foster, Webb Hubble, or Ron Brown mentioned in public? Orbiting either of the Clintons, but especially Hillary, is akin to what happens to an object gravitating a bit too close to a Black Hole. The prospect of power is seductive and sometimes quite fatal.
The next step is having people confront the places where the hard left tend to congregate (universities and other such places). Their power grew over the years likely because of lack of supervision and how they were deferred to as they held professorships and teaching positions. Send your kids to trade schools or community colleges or watch what is going on on the campuses.
It’s not just the commies in higher ed anymore.
They’re teaching kindergarden now.
Homeschool is really the only way to get away from them.
Even private school teachers went to the higher ed ‘teacher colleges’ and got koolaided there.
Universities can be starved into non-existence. Stop supporting your alma mater, in all areas. Athletics included.
Not long ago, I came across an article that discussed how fewer and fewer men are attending university and instead opting for trade schools, community college, or apprenticeships that make them more practically skilled and employable compared to the more and more women going to university. By being that more practically skilled and thus more employable, the men have that advantage over the many women who opted for university.
Today’s universities exist primarily to teach women and minorities how to resent. Total avoidance of these toxic waste dumps is a wise plan.
Soviet commissar...what a white wash, makes him sound like some pencil pushing bureaucrat.
Bastard was one of the worst of the worst Chekist/NKVD heads....”chief of the Soviet security police (NKVD) from 1936 to 1938, administered the most severe stage of the great purges, known as Yezhovshchina (or Ezhovshchina).”
Pop goes the weasel!
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, 1984
His peers’ nickname for him was “The Evil Dwarf”.
Robert A. Conquest
The Great Terror: Stalin's Purges of the 1930s
get the last edition which includes previously unknown material gleaned from access to KGB files.
The “corrected” pages to the Boshevik yearbooks mailed to supporters all over the world were to be stuck in the spot where the original page was to be cut out. The canal shot is less than the tip of the iceberg.
http://www.google.com/search?q=the+commissar+vanishes
Felix Dzerzhinsky, Lenin's handpicked head of the ever-expanding secret police, screamed for two hours, mostly at or about Trotsky, denoucing the main opposition faction. The exertion was apparently too much for him, he died the day after his harangue. Trotsky was shortly after removed from all posts, expelled from The Party, interntally exiled, and ultimately expelled with his wife from the USSR, thus escaping execution. Prior to this, during the struggles between Stalin and his former allies, Trotsky said, in a speech:None of us desires or is able to dispute the will of the Party. Clearly, the Party is always right... We can only be right with and by the Party, for history has provided no other way of being in the right. The English have a saying, "My country, right or wrong", whether it is in the right or in the wrong, it is my country. We have much better historical justification in saying whether it is right or wrong in certain individual concrete cases, it is my party... And if the Party adopts a decision which one or other of us thinks unjust, he will say, just or unjust, it is my party, and I shall support the consequences of the decision to the end.Trotsky spent the rest of his life publishing his own line of agitprop against Stalin, who arranged for Trotsky's assassination. In recent years the ice axe (weird choice for Mexico, where the killing took place) reemerged, still caked with Trotsky's blood.
Interesting.
I heard that when Stalin’s last NKVD chief, Lavrenti Beria, was purged in the power struggle following Stalin’s death, owners of a Soviet encyclopedia were given a page about the Bering Sea, and told to cover up the page in the encyclopedia about Beria with that.
Don't forget the thuggy Mao influence the Chinese are exerting on democrats.
Cultural Revolution horrors that put Stalin to shame... That evil is also in the plans of traitors in the democrat party, pentagon and BLM ranks.
They are in for a shock if the Marxists do take over 🙄.
Sounds about right. Khruschev visited Stalin's deathbed on The Great Helmsman's last night on Earth, weird coincidence. The power struggle between Beria and Khruschev lasted something like six months. Beria's execution came about precipitously, his 'trial' presided over by a WWII general and hero along with some other well-known citizens. Some of Beria's unfinished business consisted of purge victims who remained in prison. The whole bunch and Beria were just snuffed and erased.
Back in the 70s there was a rather large bookstore in lower Manhattan devoted to leftist claptrap. While browsing came across Soviet encylopedia in English and noticed numerous pages with the glued in “corrigenda”. The adhesive must have been the Soviet version of Superglue. Could not be peeled back at all...sure as hell wasn’t paste.
Sidebar: Postwar maps of the USSR including the Baltic Sea showed the entire southern Baltic coastline from Kaliningrad to Finland as being many kilometers seaward from actual locations...wonder how many stayed in circulation after Keyhole sats. BTW, distribution was fir internal use as well as for foreign markets.
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