Operation Barbarossa: The 75th Anniversary of the Nazi Invasion of the Soviet Union

John jnn at synfin.org
Mon Jun 27 12:18:52 PDT 2016


Didn't bother reading past your "truth about Stalin" line, tbh... he killed all the old Bolsheviks in show trials, consolidated his power, and created the template for fucking North Korea.  Or is there a vicious smear campaign against the Kims going on too ? ;)

I won't bother to defend any politician or state. The US is built on slavery and genocide. That doesn't make Stalin a good guy.

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John

On June 27, 2016 2:50:09 PM EDT, "Александр" <afalex169 at gmail.com> wrote:
>John Newman jnn at synfin.org
>
>> Hitler and Stalin
>> were both mad men.
>>
>> i love this nasty maneuver when mixing TOGETHER (as if they were the
>same):
>lie AND truth //
>black AND white //
>destroyer AND savior
>...
>
>a few words about the smear campaign against Stalin for the last 70
>years.
>(information not from your TV/papers/great propaganda bibliographic
>book):
>
>*Let's Be Honest - Stalin Was Less of a Criminal Than Churchill,
>Truman,
>and LBJ*
>
>"It's time to recover the truth about Stalin and the USSR from a
>cesspool
>of hostile propaganda"
>
>We have long maintained that the truth about the USSR, in general, and
>particularly the Stalin period, has long been the object of the most
>cynical, mean-spirited, and comprehensive propaganda effort ever seen
>in
>the annals of history.
>
>For reasons of sheer class interest among the plutocrats of the West,
>the
>business elites that still rule most of the so-called “capitalist
>democracies,” the demonization of Stalin was a necessity, a campaign
>only
>briefly interrupted by World War Two and quickly resumed literally a
>few
>hours after its ending.
>
>The Western elites —with the American ruling circles in the
>lead—correctly
>saw an enemy in Stalin. They could not bribe him and they could not
>intimidate him. Nor could they easily topple him, as they had done (and
>still do) countless times with weaker, “inconvenient leaders.” What’s
>more,
>Stalin was at the helm of a powerful nation and titular leader of an
>ideology directly opposed to their indispensable economic system.
>Occasional diplomacy aside, they hated him. He and his nation stood in
>the
>way of their plans for global hegemony. So the the venom had to flow
>and
>did—abundantly. And in that sordid enterprise the capitalist elites
>found
>countless allies, not to mention the usual battalions of ignorant,
>useful
>idiots.
>
>As any propaganda student will attest, when vilifying a nation’s
>policies
>and social values, it’s far easier (and effective) if the propagandist
>aims
>the Big Lie machine at its leader. As we have seen in recent times with
>Gaddafi, Saddam Hussein, Bashar al-Assad, Fidel Castro, Iran and North
>Korea’s leaders, Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, and finally Putin—among many
>others (the empire is never lacking in “dangerous enemies”)—the
>character
>assassination of a leader is an old tactic to prepare the perennially
>benighted home population for an attack on the targeted nation.
>
>From this perspective it’s not difficult to see that if the Ministry of
>Truth could swiftly complete the total demonization of Vladimir Putin—a
>figure in good standing merely 3 years ago—and not even an avowed
>socialist, one can only imagine what outrageous fabrications they could
>have concocted (and did) to cordon off the image of Stalin, an
>outspoken
>communist, over several decades. This made eminent sense to the West’s
>doctrinal gatekeepers. Given the identification of Stalin’s long rule
>with
>the Soviet Union at its most embattled, the blackening of Stalin’s name
>served an important purpose: it provided the Western propagandists an
>invaluable shorthand—an “irrefutable symbol” of communism’s putative
>evil—to block the very idea of genuine socialism as an option for
>humanity.
>
>The preceding is obviously not to argue that Stalin was a flawless
>leader,
>or a saint who just happened to have a powerful army, or that he didn’t
>make some serious mistakes. He did. However, the most elementary
>fairness
>demands that we ask, which world historical figure confronted with
>enormously difficult choices emerges today (barring self-serving
>ideological propaganda) unscathed from close and impartial examination?
>
>Judging Stalin by the context in which he had to act, and even more
>important, the purposes he served, he was arguably no worse, morally,
>than
>most Western leaders, and by any rational measure, probably a damn
>sight
>better.  For who are these distinguished gentlemen who have led the
>West
>for over a century now?
>
>Churchill, the most revered member in the club, was an unapologetic
>racist
>and imperialist who in the 1920s endorsed the policy of RAF bombing and
>gassing Iraqi villages (Mesopotamia) into submission, for for failure
>to
>pay their assigned tribute. JFK, Lyndon Johnson, and Nixon pursued an
>illegitimate, barbaric, genocidal war in Vietnam that remains one of
>the
>horrors of modern imperialism. Truman dropped the bomb on the Japanese
>as a
>way to keep the Soviets “in line,” making America so far the only
>nation to
>have used nuclear weapons on a civilian population. And during the
>postwar,
>the US tentacles, chiefly acting through the CIA and its clients, have
>managed to murder and repress tens of millions of people around the
>globe—in all latitudes and scores of nations, from the Philippines, to
>Indonesia to Chile, to Nicaragua, to Iran, the Congo, Korea, the entire
>Middle East, literally bathed in blood—always in pursuit of
>geostrategic
>advantage, and the suppression of popular democracy in order to better
>permit the continuation and maximization of corporate profit. So much
>for
>the inherent perfidy of communism and angelic innocence of capitalism.
>
>The record is by now so huge and consistent, the hypocrisy so
>staggering,
>that we can state categorically there is not a single case in which
>America
>has used its immense diplomatic and military power to back a genuine
>democratic leader (such people are immediately branded “communists” and
>dealt accordingly) or assisted people struggling for freedom from class
>oppression. It’s a vile and hypocritical record that continues to this
>day,
>thanks to the complete brainwash to which the American population has
>been
>subjected as a measure of pre-emptive pacification. The whole thing is
>amply documented so there’s no point in even trying to refute it.
>
>In any case, recovering the truth about Stalin and the USSR from the
>cesspool of hostile propaganda in which the enemies of socialism
>situated
>it, assisted by the perennially misguided and often fanatical
>anti-communist and especially anti-Stalinist leftists, is no task for
>the
>weakhearted.
>
>That’s why we salute our colleagues at Russia Insider, and its editor,
>Charlie Bausman, in particular, for their decision to publish Grover
>Furr.
>Letting this scholar speak to a larger audience is a badly needed blow
>for
>truth —especially in the current context of reckless warmongering on
>Russia’s and China’s doorstep. The Big Lie must be defeated if a
>lasting
>peace is ever to be attained by humanity.
>
>http://russia-insider.com/en/history/lets-be-honest-stalin-was-less-criminal-churchill-truman-and-lbj/ri8303

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