Posted on 08/06/2012 10:33:37 AM PDT by jazusamo
I always thought that the reason the Soviets didn’t get nailed for their crimes is - unlike the Nazis - they didn’t photograph their atrocities.
I realize that some photos exist but where are the newsreels and film footage showing the horrors of the 1930s? I think Stalin was too sly for that.
Seriously ... God only knows what's lurking in the KGB/GRU archives. But no conquering army marched through Moscow to find out. No conquering army marched through the gulags to free the inmates. History is written by the winners. The communist bloody-handed murderers were among the winners. The national socialist bloody-handed murderers were among the losers. The winners uncovered all the losers' dirty laundry, while hiding their own.
That's great.
Thanks for the tip.
The high degree of respect I have for Walter Williams makes this article even scarier!
A very large percentage of the US public is begging to be able to trade their heritage for a dismal future of socialist mediocracy.
The only thing that will keep our descendants from hating us will be the fact that the history of today will have been erased by our “education” system.
On the other hand, maybe - just maybe - americans will score a last minute victory November 6 and we can begin to work our way back to deserving the sacrifices of previous generations.
Another factor is that they both have a fundamental belief that their models are perfect, and thus when their models fail to match reality, it is the reality, rather than the models, which is defective. Anyone who acts in ways contrary to the model is an opponent of perfection; since any good person would want perfection, opposition to perfection is evil and must be destroyed at all costs.
For example, opponents of Obamacare get branded as being opposed to affordable healthcare. In reality, many of those opponents would support Obamacare if they believed it would live up to all its promises, but they recognize that what Obama is promising is fundamentally impossible. Of course, Obama and his minions are well-prepared to claim that any failure of Obamacare to meet its promises are the fault of people who don't behave as Obama's model says they should (goaded into such misbehavior by his detractors, no doubt), rather than merely representing the fact that the promises were unrealistic in the first place.
How long did it take for them to admit to the Katyn Forest Massacre?
Well said.
Procrustes strikes again. Cut or stretch the people to fit the bed instead of building the bed to fit the people.
Excellent point. And the larger the corporation the more prone to the same problems that beset large “centrally planned “ bureaucracies.
That’s exactly what I’ve been saying for over 20 years. Everybody knows the murders committed by the Nazis in Germany, but hardly anyone under 30 realizes the hundreds of millions of people murdered by these “SOCIALISTS” communists committed in the old USSR, China, North Korea, Cuba, Viet Nam, Cambodia. If it could be totaled, those numbers would make Hitlers attrocities when he was in power, chicken feed. Yet none of our government schools are willing to even discuss the subject.
It’s because during WW II FDR and his admin were infiltrated by the Soviet Union. We pay the price
today.
Many years ago, I met a young man who was wearing one of those “Mao caps” with the red star. I said something to the effect of”I don’t want to be critical and I’m just curious. But that hat is associated with Mao, who killed 50 million people. Now, obviously you are a good man and don’t favor killing. Do you see that hat as associated with something different? Am I wrong to associate it with Mao?”
“Well, um, I never thought about that.” He replied.
I didn’t push the matter. But I wonder if he ever wore than Mao hat again.
The fact is a lot of liberals (not all) don’t understand how bad communism is in practice. In many cases, it’s possible to educate without being confrontational.
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