To: the scotsman
To: the scotsman
To: the scotsman
Here's lots more info on the "accomplishments" of the politics of peace, joy, love and equality: </sarc>
4 posted on
08/05/2015 7:21:30 AM PDT by
Perseverando
(For Progressives, Islamonazis & Totalitarians: It's all about PEOPLE CONTROL!)
To: the scotsman
His groundbreaking books first opened many eyes to the true nature of Soviet communism, including my own. A great man, RIP.
5 posted on
08/05/2015 7:21:36 AM PDT by
Argus
To: the scotsman
If journalism is the first draft of history, thank God for history. But if history is to be as distorted as journalism, thank God for the likes of Robert Conquest.
It is noteworthy that the New York Times in discussing Robert conquest and his groundbreaking work which told the truth about Stalin's Holocaust in Ukraine and his murderous show trials and gulags unaccountably fails to mention the extraordinary malpractice of the New York Times and its reporter Walter Durante who failed utterly to report either that Holocaust or Stalinist show trials and rather affirmatively misreported these heinous mass murders.
Evidently history has not quite revised journalism at the New York Times. Unfortunately, neither journalism nor history ever seems to catch up with the left.
6 posted on
08/05/2015 7:28:56 AM PDT by
nathanbedford
("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
To: the scotsman
From the article, “Conquest personified the truth that there was no anti-communist so dedicated as an ex-communist.”
Early in my career, I had the pleasure of working with several older folks who fit that description: guys who were young radicals in the 1930s but who, through personal experience with Communism or Communists, became free-market conservatives and staunch anti-Soviets.
7 posted on
08/05/2015 7:30:38 AM PDT by
riverdawg
To: the scotsman
Harvest of Sorrow , or do we boycott amazon? Anyway, used it is only 49 cents. I always thought some of his books were important to read.
To: the scotsman
Watched CHILD 44 last night. DVD. Horrific time for Ukraine/Russian people.
"There are are no murders in paradise." So Stalin decreed.
9 posted on
08/05/2015 7:37:11 AM PDT by
donozark
(We grow too soon old and too late smart...)
To: the scotsman
Mr. Conquest summed up his attitude in a short poem:
There was a great Marxist called Lenin
Who did two or three million men in.
That’s a lot to have done in,
But where he did one in
That grand Marxist Stalin did ten in.
16 posted on
08/05/2015 11:02:55 AM PDT by
tlozo
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