Historical falsification in the service of pro-war propaganda

World Socialist Web Site (filthy commies) ^ | July 18th, 2023 | Tom Mackaman

[Mariner]

In its latest foray into the realm of historical falsification, the New York Times on Tuesday published a news analysis pinning the blame for World War II on the Soviet Union. The lengthy article authored by Andrew E. Kramer, entitled “A Current War Collides with the Past: Remnants of World War II in Ukraine,” makes no mention of either the Holocaust or the Nazi war of annihilation against the Soviet people.

The article is only the latest historical lie by the Times in the service of the US-NATO proxy war in Ukraine.

From the war’s start, the Times has attempted to legitimize the pro-fascist narrative of the Ukrainian nationalists. Key elements have been the downplaying of the Holocaust and the collaboration of the Ukrainian nationalists in the mass murder of Jews and Poles; the minimizing of the alliance of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) with the Nazi regime; the assertion of a political and moral equivalence between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union; and the repeated claims that there is no neo-Nazi and fascist influence in present-day Ukraine.

It is within this context that Kramer puts forth the astonishing claim that World War II started with the Soviet Union’s invasion of Poland.

[dfwgator]

Stalin himself admitted to Khrushchev, that the Soviet Union would have lost had it not been for US Lend-Lease.

[nickcarraway]

World War II began in what is now Ukraine in 1939 with a Soviet invasion into territory then controlled by Poland in western Ukraine, at a time when the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany were in a military alliance.

World War II began July 7th, 1937. You could possibly pick an earlier time, but no later.

[Mariner]

Czechia and Austria were invaded first and that signaled the start of the war.

[nickcarraway]

It was a WORLD war. Japan invaded China before either of those countries were invaded.

[Boogieman]

“It had nothing to do with bringing the U.K. into the war.”

Nonsense. The British declared war on Germany within 2 days of them invading Poland, because they were allies. It wasn’t some “secret alliance”, everyone, including the Germans, knew what would happen.