Posted on 06/21/2021 5:23:26 AM PDT by gr8eman
It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs…… ” So goes the opening sentence of Sylvia Plath’s 1963 novel The Bell Jar, referring to the Jewish American couple, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage and sent to the electric chair exactly 68 years ago today. Their execution casts a morbid shadow over Plath’s book, just as it did over the United States, and it is seen by many as the nadir of America’s engagement with the cold war. The Rosenbergs are still the only Americans ever put to death in peacetime for espionage, and Ethel is the only American woman killed by the US government for a crime other than murder. During their trial, Ethel in particular was vilified for prioritising communism over her children, and the prosecution insisted she had been the dominant half of the couple, purely because she was three years older. “She was the mastermind of this whole conspiracy,” assistant prosecutor Roy Cohn told the judge. But questions about whether she was guilty at all have been growing louder in recent years, and a new biography presents her in a different light. “Ethel was killed for being a wife.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Yes, Kim Philby came to my mind too.
In 1994, I was writing articles for textbooks aimed at junior high school students. I was assigned to write a biography of the Rosenbergs, whom my clients apparently wanted me to portray them as victims of "McCarthyism."
However, for my research, I read The Rosenberg File by Ronald Radosh (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1983), The FBI-KGB war : a Special Agent's Story by Robert J. Lamphere and Tom Shachtman (New York: Berkley, 1987) and KGB officer Pavel Sudoplatov's newly-published memoir Special Tasks (Boston: Little, Brown, 1994). I concluded that the Rosenbergs were guilty as hell, and I said so in the biography I submitted.
However, although they paid me for my manuscript, they didn't publish it but substituted it with another that toed the party line, portraying the Rosenbergs as innocent victims of the McCarthy Witch Hunt. Immediately afterwards, the Venona decrypts, disclosed in the Lamphere/Shachtman and Sudoplatov books, were declassified, discrediting the manuscript that was published in place of mine.
They were executed because the commies had not yet infiltrated the US government completely. (see “DiFis chauffeur”). They committed treason. I’m quite sure they pledged allegiance to the US. That actually used to mean something!
I knew it started with an “f” sound!
Seems to be a hot topic and I will assert it’s worth a repost!
That has always been my point. I have been to Russia a couple of times. The average Russian is the biggest anti-communist in the world. If all these indoctrinated twits in this country had an ounce of integrity they would be lining up to get into Cuba.
In my opinion, it’s really not about the Rosenbergs, rather by rehabilitating them the left is humanizing Communism. Ethel Rosenberg was just being a good mother and trying to make the world a better place, according to the article. And Julius really didn’t do anything, just give away a few secrets. Nothing major. It’s all really about making Communism more acceptable to the American population.
“....indoctrinated twits ....”
They’re all convinved they’ll be part of the ruling elite !
Greenglass admitted they all did it
Sorry to hear that happened to you...But can’t have the kids learning the truth, can we? Joe McCarthy was right, but the lies persist...
“A nation can survive its fools…but it cannot survive treason from within. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murder is less to fear.” — Cicero, 63 BC
Cicero advised the maximum sentence for the traitor...
I mean Sobel
Even the Russians said the rosenbergs were spies.
The name you are looking for is Klaus Fuchs.
Kim Philby was British, you mightbethinking of Ted Hall, guilty but not prosecuted to keep Verona secret. Philly went to USSR, Hall stayed in England after his investigation here.
The truth is that they were communist spies as the KGB files revealed and as even their own sons admitted.
They were rightly executed for their treason.
it was posted here the day of the Guardian article .
I read the same article posted here last week from the Guardian .
👍I had not thought of it that way before - excellent analogy.
Dang! Cicero and I agree on a most important issue! Thanks! I’m glad to know it.
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