Whittaker Chambers:
Posted on 01/25/2025 10:16:58 AM PST by bitt
The Depression of the 1930s was more than an economic crisis. All of American society was upended, as economically hard times forced people to question their deepest beliefs about America and the American experiment.
Perhaps capitalism wasn't the way to a better society. Millions of intellectuals and ordinary people toyed with the idea that Communism may be a viable alternative economic and social model. This was before the horrors of Joseph Stalin and Soviet Communism were exposed and Communism discredited.
America's left-wing intelligentsia embraced Communism. The Soviet Union's fight against Nazi Germany, supported enthusiastically by American Communists, blinded many of these Americans to the dangers of Communism in America. They refused to believe that Stalin was an evil dictator, even after the evidence was overwhelming.
Most of these "fellow travelers" and innocent dupes had no idea that organizing and guiding the American Communist movement was the government of the Soviet Union. They vigorously denied any Soviet influence in their movement. Then came the release in July 1995 of the "Venona Papers," detailing the extraordinary extent of Soviet infiltration of the American government and every level of society.
The Venona files were decoded cables sent from Soviet agents in the United States to Moscow; they contained the names of dozens of Americans. Not all were spies for Moscow, but many were mentioned as Russian agents.
One of those names mentioned as a Soviet spy was former senior State Department officer Alger Hiss, who, after the war, became the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He had been accused of being a Soviet agent by Time Magazine senior editor Whittaker Chambers in 1948, and that accusation set off one of the first big ideological battles in post-war America.
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Rick Moran, author
Did not matter. Conservatives lost the next 8 elections until Reagan.
He knew how the Soviet communists had infiltrated the USA and was afraid if we went communist, we would infiltrate Russia to return communism to them.
later
Very good post.
Seems the DC deep state is cozy with Chinese commies...
Saved for later
btw, i highly recommend Whittaker Chambers’ book, “Witness”, a surprisingly readable and a very instructive insider’s view of Soviet Communism in America, as well as how Soviet agents directly influenced the U.S. regarding the Potsdam agreement which enabled the takeover of much of Europe by the Soviets after WWII ...
Whittaker Chambers:
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