Most people don’t even know about the war in Eastern Ukraine that started in 2014 and is technically ongoing. The death toll sits right now at about 13,000. (This includes Ukrainians and Russians.)
Arguably the bloodiest conflict in Europe since...I don’t know.
Link 2008.
So true. And during that period Stalin and the Soviet system were being openly praised by singers Pete Seeger and Paul Robeson. And Hollywood types and writers fell all over themselves extolling Uncle Joe's virtues. Forty years after Stalin's death Seeger mildly said he had been mistakenly taken in and didn't understand the cruelty going on. Forty years of silence later.
Along with the deliberate forced starvation he also held purge trials with an estimate one million people killed as a result.
There were two honest journalists who reported the mass murder in the Ukraine, Gareth Jones and Malcolm Muggeridge. Muggeridge was a reporter for the left-wing newspaper The Guardian and got fired for reporting the truth. Jones was subsequently murdered in Mongolia possibly by Soviet agents.
Gareth Jones is a national hero in Ukraine and it’s worth reading his reporting at the time; https://www.garethjones.org/
I am at the moment re-reading Robert Conquest’s “The Harvest of Sorrow” one of the major works on the Holodomor.
Stalin, who murdered these people, was affectionately referred to as "Uncle Joe" by FDR.
The fact that masses embrace socialism and communism despite their track record shows there is no shortage of ignorance and stupidity in this world !
And THAT, dear friends, is what Socialists do when they get control.
They murder innocent people who refuse to go along.
And THAT, dear friends, is why WE DO NOT EVER GIVE UP OUR GUNS.
New York Times is still doing reach around over Euromaiden
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It’s the difference between journalism and reporting. In journalism the agenda is everything while in reporting facts are everything.