> If they were ‘aligned’ with the Free French, it was pure opportunism and you ought to know that. As for Tito, he was a Communist first, his alleged ‘independence’ from Moscow not withstanding.
They fought and died fighting Nazis all the same — which in my books makes them Good Guys: their unfortunate misbegotten ideology notwithstanding.
> The reason the U.S. opened the floodgates of lend lease to the Soviet Union was because FDR’s administration was shot through with Communists, and his own Vice President (Henry Wallace) was the epitome of a ‘useful idiot’ (as Communists define the term), thank God that f’in goofball got dropped from the ticket in ‘44.
And the reason why America opposed Churchill’s desire to keep the tanks rolling on to Moscow after Berlin fell was...?
> What you need pal, is to refresh yourself with the history of Communism, which ranks right up there with Islamofascism as the deadliest man-made political virus ever unleashed upon the Earth
No argument that communism is a bad thing. It isn’t the only bad thing.
The communists didn’t bomb London and send 6 million Jews to the gas chambers — the Nazis did. The communists didn’t bomb Pearl Harbor and rape & pillage their way thru Southeast Asia and the South Pacific — Imperial Japan did. Stalin never crossed swords with the West in anger, and in fairness we have the US to thank for that.
America obviously sees communism as being the major evil: I think that view would not be as predominant outside the US. Europeans and Commonwealth countries would probably rank Nazism and Fascism as being worse evils, by way of their direct experience during WW-II.
The Commies have killed more folks than the Nazis - try on 100 million foir the Commies alone.
In all fairness, both ideologies are evil scum. The thing is that the extreme left does not get the condemnation it so deserves.