[MEG33]

When Germany and Hitler lost the war we had all the documentation in our hands for prosecutors,researchers,writers to examine.

The Soviet secrets were not so well known until the fall of the Soviet Union,and we don't know it all.We made a pact with the devil to defeat Hitler and we agreed to let the devil take over eastern Europe.

We saved a lot of allied lives in the process but we got communist China,Korean War,Viet Nam,etc in the bargain to speak nothing of the cost of the cold war.Trusting communists is a dead end.

[lavrenti]

The Soviet murder machine was well-documented long before Stalin croaked.

Leon Trotsky was given a lot of information about what was going on and broadcasting to his people from exile.

Leon, now he was a funny guy. Had he been in charge, nothing would have changed. The Five Year Plan was originally his idea (Stalin commented sarcastically at the time "What? Give every peasant a Victrola?"), and he was the head of the Red Army during the Civil War, which was about as evil as any crew handed a Mauser and a target.

Finally, Trotsky was responsible for the slaughter at Kronstadt, which gives a little idea about how he'd run the USSR had he won out in his power struggle against Stalin.

However, he did present and propagate much of the information later confirmed when the archives were opened.

The labor camps, and mass executions were known facts in the 1930s. No one wanted to know about it, though.

Familiar story.