If you only got your history from television and the movies, you would grow up thinking the only villains who ever existed in world history were the NAZIs and the WW2 Japanese.
Its about time that the view of America was expanded to include other odious tyrannies.
With the fall of the Soviet Union, many records of the former KGB have been discovered by the current Ukrainian government and made public. As a result, there is irrefutable evidence as to the scope and cause of this atrocity, and who the responsible parties were, starting from Stalin, on down. The result of this historical documentation, is that the Ukrainian government recently brought the matter to court in Ukraine successfully, and there are calls from the current President of Ukraine for a Nuremburg 2, to deal with all the crimes of the Communist era in Eastern Europe, so that they see the light of day, and are not forgotten.
More info is available at:
http://ssu.kmu.gov.ua/sbu/control/en/publish/article?art_id=89112&cat_id=89111
That’s exactly right. As a first-generation American whose parents escaped the Communists, and with relatives who died in or en-route to Siberia (their crimes, being too middle-class) — I often feel like I am the lone voice in the crowd who knows of the horrors.
No mainstream movies, no documentaries, nothing about Stalin, Lenin, not to mention Mao and the other bastards. All the Communist sympathizers and full-fledged Communists in Hollywood/Sundance/etc. wouldn’t go for it....
This special Beck is having is the first time in my life I can recall someone on tv bringing this up.