The lingering stench: airing Stalin’s archives

The New Criterion ^ | March 2009 | Gary Saul Morson

[neverdem]

I did a quick and an archive search. I doesn't appear to have been posted, although I have my doubts about the archive search.

[ETL]

Above: Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov signs the Nazi-Soviet Non-aggression Pact while German Foreign Minister Von Ribbentrop and Soviet leader Stalin look on under a portrait of Lenin, August 23, 1939. News of the Pact stunned the world and paved the way for the beginning of World War Two with Hitler assured the Germans would not have to fight a war on two fronts.
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/pact.htm
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"...at the time of the Nazi-Soviet Pact, the Communists suddenly transformed the 'Anti-Nazi League' into the "Hollywood Peace Forum," calling for American neutrality and using the slogan 'Let's Skip the Next War.'..."
--Ronald Radosh, from his book, Red Star Over Hollywood: The Film Colony's Long Romance With the Left
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4251

[neverdem]

You might like this.

[GodGunsGuts]

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[neverdem]

Thank you.

[iskra123]

Another “tell all” that makes no mention of the genocide of 10 million Ukrainians in 1933?

[neverdem]

Another “tell all” that makes no mention of the genocide of 10 million Ukrainians in 1933?

Check the book.

[CondorFlight]

Like Dostoyevsky said, If there is no God, then there is no crime (because there is no good and evil).

If men are created in the image of God, then trying to steamroller their individuality out of existence is to destroy the very meaning of their lives.

Mao tried to put 800 million Chinese into identical suits;
collective farms try to turn men into robots; communism prattles about “the masses” but destroys masses because it doesn’t care about the man.

But there are still plenty of people willing to drink that kool aid.

Fascinating that Dostoyevsky figured out that an atheistic regime must lead to total tyranny and the attempt of the rulers to act as if they were divine and above the law themselves. (If Russia ever reads her own literature, she may come to understand her own history.)

[gorush]

Silly conservative...facts don’t matter, communism failed only because there were too few laws...

[ETL]

Thank YOU for posting the article. :)

[neverdem]

Not long after Stalin’s confident vision of “a first-rate country with the biggest technically equipped industrial and agricultural production,” the writer Isaac Babel returned to Moscow from a tour of the famine-stricken Ukraine. He confi ded to a friend that he had witnessed things impossible to speak or write about—cannibalism and inhuman destitution.

It depends on the review.

[ETL]

Like Dostoyevsky said, If there is no God, then there is no crime (because there is no good and evil).

Saul Alinsky on "Change"...
From Rules for Radicals, Alinsky outlines his strategy in organizing, writing:

"There's another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution."

Saul Alinsky, The Latter Rain (LatterRain.com is a "Liberation Theology" commie-left website -etl)
http://latter-rain.com/ltrain/alinski.htm
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"Barack Obama told supporters that
'change has come to America' as he
claimed victory in a historic presidential election."

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/04/election.president/index.html

[BobL]

“If Russia ever reads her own literature, she may come to understand her own history.”

You could also say that if the West ever reads Russian literature, she may come to understand her future annihilation.

[thecodont]

... Babel’s arrest and shooting in the great purges have long been known, but what Brent has discovered is that, during the course of the horrible interrogations, Babel ceased to be Babel at all. They took his soul. The documents reveal how “the system attacked his essence—his consciousness and self-identity… . Isaac Babel no longer existed as Isaac Babel.” He loved Big Brother.

Babel’s fate illustrates a key tenet of Soviet ideology, perhaps the single most important one. I have in mind the doctrine that there is no such thing as human nature or individual selfhood.

What sort of people do these things?

[Calpernia]

GGG

[neverdem]

What sort of people do these things?

Our disloyal opposition, the tyrannical statists.

[grey_whiskers]

cf Barack Obama: "I won."

No cheers, unfortunately.

[GladesGuru]

“What sort of people do these things?”

Given time, and unchecked power, Democrats willo those things.

Remember the politics of personal destruction? Ruby Ridge, Waco, Texas and the Branch Davidians?

Culture is all that separates us from the Russians. And, as the Russians would say, the “nekulturney” are in the White House.

[neverdem]

Senators Introduce Bi-Partisan Legislation To Restore Second Amendment in National Parks Good news for a change!

Obama, the Other Huey Long - The president is more like the Depression era’s populist Louisiana governor than like FDR. Check the link in comment# 7.

With bowed head and bended knee Guess who bowed to the Saudi King on video?

Michael Yon: Obama plan for Afghanistan, Pakistan short on bold

Some noteworthy articles about politics, foreign or military affairs, IMHO, FReepmail me if you want on or off my list.

[IrishCatholic]

thanks for the post. Bookmark for later.