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For 70 years now, anniversaries of the end of the Second World War in Europe -- the "Good War" -- have neglected to reckon with another milestone: the approximate anniversary of Operation Keelhaul, the Allied operation that forcibly repatriated literally millions of people, Soviet-claimed anti-Communists in the Western war zones at war's end, to Stalin's Gulag or the firing squad. You've never heard of such a thing? You are not alone. From American Betrayal, pp. 232-236: ********** In contemporary terms, “repatriation” was a policy of reverse “ethnic cleansing” that scrubbed Western Europe of displaced or captured Russians and other nationals...

Rewriting Cold War history Posted: December 3, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 Creators Syndicate, Inc. Were neoconservatives the heroes of the Cold War? Or were many of them latecomers to the cause of anti-communism, too long enamored of its ugly little sister, socialism? Consider. Last week, the Washington Times reported on a party at the Slovak Embassy given to honor America's Cold War heroes. In the photos were such stalwarts as Rep. Dana Rohrbacher, the Reagan speech-writer, Gen. "Jack" Singlaub, a legendary warrior, Al Regnery, whose father was the bravest anti-communist publisher of the Cold War, and Jon Utley,...