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Hollywood Traitors Supported Hitler and Stalin: An Interview with Allan Ryskind
The Daily Caller ^ | May, 13, 2015 | Brett M. Decker

Posted on 05/13/2015 6:46:25 PM PDT by TigerTown

Hard-core Communists in Hollywood, and by that I mean those with party cards and whose allegiance was to Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union, not the United States, made a major effort to take over the movie industry and nearly succeeded. The much-maligned House Un-American Activities Committee, as even liberal Hollywood historians Larry Ceplair and Steven Englund acknowledge, uncovered over 200 party members in Hollywood. My dad, Morrie Ryskind, one of the few outspoken anti-Communist screenwriters in Hollywood, said the number was closer to 300. They were part of a broad conspiracy of subversives who had penetrated America’s most critical institutions, including our intelligence agencies, the State Department and even the White House.

Hollywood continues to celebrate the most ardent Stalinists as champions of our civil liberties. It will do so again this year by releasing a film featuring Bryan Cranston, the star of Breaking Bad, that honors Dalton Trumbo, a major Stalinist screenwriter, as a great defender of our Constitution. It also promises to go after important anti-Communists, like labor leader Roy Brewer and actor John Wayne.

By 1944, the American Communists, who viewed the murderous Joseph Stalin as their political leader, were deeply imbedded in the Hollywood guilds and unions, and even appeared to control movie content.

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This is an exclusive interview between Brett M. Decker and author Allan Ryskind, whose father was a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter famous for his Marx Brothers scripts and for leading the opposition to communism in Hollywood along with Ronald Reagan, Walt Disney and John Wayne.
1 posted on 05/13/2015 6:46:25 PM PDT by TigerTown
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To: TigerTown

Bkmrk.


2 posted on 05/13/2015 6:49:14 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (The White House is now known as "Casa Blanca".)
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To: TigerTown

Thank you for posting this.


3 posted on 05/13/2015 6:52:29 PM PDT by dragonblustar (Philippians 2:10)
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To: TigerTown

The Communists showed Joe McCarthy who was boss. They still are.


4 posted on 05/13/2015 6:54:15 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: TigerTown

Hard-core Communists in Hollywood...made a major effort to take over the movie industry and nearly succeeded.

What’s this “nearly” business?


5 posted on 05/13/2015 6:54:23 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: TigerTown; All
This mentions Dalton Trumbo who was and if you actually look at what such films as ‘Johnny Got His Gun’ and ‘Executive Action’ infer about the United States remained a commie throughout his life. Trumbo made a career out of his being martyred for being an unrepentant Stalin stooge and it costing him in his profession. He should have been banned in any capacity from Hollywood productions. Take a careful look at the 1942 film ‘Saboteur’ and not how relentlessly Trumbo’s script pushes the evil meme of class warfare depicting all wealthy persons as Nazi agents or sympathizers. Trumbo and his enablers were traitors pure and simple .
6 posted on 05/13/2015 7:01:03 PM PDT by robowombat
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To: TigerTown

Most lists I have seen include Ward Bond of Wagon Train in the list of those who stood up for the U.S. Ronald Reagan, as the president of the screen actors guild decided to carry a pistol during this time period. But the popular meme was that it was the liberals who were the victims.


7 posted on 05/13/2015 7:09:40 PM PDT by the_Watchman
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To: robowombat

“Give me 26 lead soldiers and I will conquer the world.” (Marx)

Changed slightly, he should have said, “Give me ten cameras on a movie lot, and I will conquer the world.”

All the more reason, then, for those who want to win the culture wars, to get involved with making their own movies
(which is technologically much easier today than ever before).


8 posted on 05/13/2015 7:13:35 PM PDT by CondorFlight (I)
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To: TigerTown

So did the New York Times with Stalin.


9 posted on 05/13/2015 7:14:06 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
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To: TigerTown

So did Henry Ford.


10 posted on 05/13/2015 7:16:09 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Islamophobia. A word created by fascists and used by cowards to manipulate morons. -- Andrew Cummins)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Henry Ford was a HUGE anti-Semite and pro-Nazi.


11 posted on 05/13/2015 7:33:25 PM PDT by nopardons
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BFL


12 posted on 05/13/2015 7:40:53 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo
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To: nopardons
so was old Joe Kennedy, Old Teddy didn't fall far from that tree. FDR had to recall him from his diplomatic post in England during the war
13 posted on 05/13/2015 7:49:09 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: nopardons

Charles Lindbergh was another.


14 posted on 05/13/2015 7:58:13 PM PDT by Lisbon1940 (No full-term governors)
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To: goat granny

Exactly so and something few know today.
The left keeps rewriting/omitting factual history from all grades; sadly.


15 posted on 05/13/2015 8:03:17 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Lisbon1940

Lindbergh even belonged the American BUND.


16 posted on 05/13/2015 8:04:02 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: the_Watchman

Reagan and others were threatened with acid in the face for opposing communism and some of the hard-core unions of the time. Acid works wonders in destroying the careers of actors.


17 posted on 05/13/2015 8:17:47 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: "I should like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: TigerTown

I read Allan Ryskind’s book. It is a pity that HUAC did not allow Ayn Rand to testify about “The Best Years of Our Lives,” as that showed how Communists in Hollywood tried to brainwash people as opposed to the heavy handed, “Song of Russia” that Ayn Rand did testify about.


18 posted on 05/13/2015 8:21:00 PM PDT by Stepan12 (Our present appeasementof Islam is the Stockholm Syndrome on steroids.)
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To: robowombat

Trumbo didn’t write SABOTEUR.


19 posted on 05/13/2015 8:25:19 PM PDT by Argus
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To: Fedora; Cincinatus' Wife

ping


20 posted on 05/13/2015 8:28:34 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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