THE LEFT'S DISGRACEFUL SUPPORT FOR STALIN'S CRIMES

The Gulags - Stalin's "work camps" in Siberia - and his many crimes against humanity that cost millions of lives, were glossed over by devoted followers of Marxism in the West, especially by intellectuals who should have known better.

These days leftists worship the memory of Ernesto Che Guevara, another mass murderer.  And they regard Fidel Castro as a hero.

Leftist intellectuals also support violent ideologies abroad that oppress women, abuse children, persecute religious minorities, and ignore human rights we take for granted. 

WHY ACADEMICS HATE DIANE WEST'S BOOK "AMERICAN BETRAYAL"

By Vladimir Bukovsky and Pavel Stroylov
 

Groundbreaking books about the history of communism, such as Robert Conquest’s The Great Terror, Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago or Viktor Suvorov’s Ice-Breaker, are never written by "professional" historians. Indeed, historians typically meet those books with remarkable hostility.

 

Diana West - American Betrayal:  The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character.

 

By her own admission, she started that book with no intention of writing much about the Cold War. She started not as a historian, but a simple mortal puzzled and disturbed by the obvious question: how on earth could this great civilization of ours have degraded into such a hypocritical nonsense as political correctness?

 

She exposes the true history of the 20th century, the history of communist crimes against humanity, to which so many in the Western Establishment were accomplices and collaborators; and then a massive cover-up of those crimes, which infested our entire public life with a culture of hypocrisy and double standards.

 

It is this search for the causes of our moral crisis that brings her as far back in history as 1930s, when the Great Famine was artificially organized by the Soviets to force the peasants into collective farms, and the Western media consciously helped Stalin to cover up that mass murder.

A journalist spoke of the conspiracy of silence at that time.
 

She cites a fascinating account by a repentant journalist who had been present at the meeting of Moscow press corps with the Soviet chief censor, Umansky, to work out a “formula of denial," after one reckless correspondent reported the news of the famine in 1933.

 

After “much bargaining in the spirit of gentlemanly give-and-take”, the “formula” was agreed, wherefrom the Western journalists and the Soviet censor proceeded to party with vodka and luxurious snacks until early hours in the morning.

 

The next day, it was infamous Walter Duranty who took the lead in attacking the famine report as an incompetent and biased “big scare story”, and then explaining: “There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation, but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition”.

 

“To understand this episode,” Mrs. West comments, “is to understand the extent to which Orwell’s ‘Newspeak’ had its birth in the pages of the free press as much as in the totalitarian censor’s office.

 

She discovers the likes of Duranty were not only the opinion-makers in the West, but also the decision-makers.

Leftists had infiltrated the White House

 

Thus, the architects of the "New Deal," including FDR himself, consciously intended it as the beginning of socialism in America. That, according to their designs, would open a way to a gradual convergence with Stalinist Soviet Union under a future socialist world government.

 

In a way, that convergence had already begun, as the Roosevelt Administration was full of Soviet agents of influence, including Alger Hiss, Harry Dexter White, and crucially, Harry Hopkins -- FDR’s alter ego, his "personal foreign secretary," and the most powerful man in the White House.

 

In the face of those proven facts, most of them now recognized even by academics, Mrs. West asks a bold but legitimate question:

Did the FDR administration really conduct the Second World War in the interests of Western democracies, or was it in the interests of Comrade Stalin?

 

Having declared that war to defend the freedom of Poland, the Western democracies ended it by surrendering Poland and a dozen other nations to another totalitarian empire to become satellites of the Soviet Union. 

 

Having researched the mountains of evidence, Diane West persuasively demonstrates:

• How the most important strategic decisions of the WWII, such as effectively abandoning the Italian front to concentrate forces for the invasion of Normandy, were taken because Stalin demanded them.   Against the counsel of Churchill and military commanders on the ground, the pro-Soviet FDR administration rejected such sensible alternatives as advancing from Italy to Balkans and Eastern Europe, which might have limited the Red Army’s advance to the West.

 

• How every attempt by anti-Nazi underground in Germany to secure Allied support for their plots to overthrow the Nazi regime was thwarted by Soviet agents in Washington – because the German conspirators were anti-communist as well as anti-Nazi.   So another opportunity to destroy the Nazi regime and win the war without letting Stalin conquer half of Europe was lost.

 

• How the notorious Yalta division of Europe, surrendering half the continent to Stalin, was accepted by the pro-Soviet FDR administration without any serious attempt to find an alternative solution. In effect, the US simply went along with the Sovietisation of Eastern Europe in breach of Yalta Agreement, and betrayed the allied democratic governments of East European states.

 

• How thousands of American POWs “liberated” by Soviets from the Nazis were simply abandoned to rot in the Gulag as hostages to Stalin, in the vain hope of preserving good relations with Moscow after the war.

Scandalously, most secret archives of that period remain classified to this day, and very few historians ever complain about that.

It required some extraordinary efforts on our part to smuggle some of those archives out of Russia and make them available to the Western public.

 

Of course, our efforts were attacked furiously by the very same academics who now attack American Betrayal, using exactly the same expressions. It is their job to suppress any truth about the Cold War.

 

However, despite all their efforts, we now know that the so-called Cold War was never particularly cold on the Soviet side and never much of a war on the Western side:   

 

• How the "consensus" of Western Establishment had accepted socialism as the inevitable future of the world, and "convergence" with the Soviet system as the only alternative to the Cold War. 

• How Western leaders developed their "détente" with the Soviets secretly, treacherously, through KGB channels, as a means to achieve that "convergence." 

• How all Western policy throughout the Cold War was aimed to preserve ‘stability’ of the Evil Empire and not to achieve its destruction.  

 

• Finally, how all Western governments sided with the last Soviet leader against his people, and secretly worked with Comrade Gorbachev in the last desperate attempt to save his regime and his empire.   Ever at Gorby’s service, they did everything in their power to prevent unification of Germany, de-communisation of Eastern Europe, collapse of the Soviet Union, and finally--alas, successfully--a Nuremberg-style trial of communism.

That treacherous Establishment is still there.

We are still governed by a nomenklatura of collaborationists, Petains and Quislings of the Cold War.

 

As Mrs. West rightly points out, the moment the free world recognized the evil empire of Communism as a country we could make deals with, even alliances with (be that even in such desperate circumstances as the Second World War)--that moment was “a Faustian turning point."

 

By the very nature of the Soviet system, the history of "East-West relations" could only be a history of deals with the devil, with all the unfortunate consequences such deals had always been reputed to entail.

 

From Yalta to Malta, all those summit-meetings were cannibal feasts of the same kind as Western journalists’ party with a Soviet censor in 1933 Moscow. Therefore, if some 80 years later we find the Western Establishment to be utterly corrupt, we should know what has corrupted them.

 

 

The Left have learned a lot since the times of Duranty and Agitprop. They no longer try to argue with such books as Mrs. West’s. They no longer try to sue us for libel in the courts of law. They quietly assassinate such books well in advance, by confidential e-mails to publishers and editors. I

 

In rare cases when that does not work and the book is out, they simply ignore it and wait for another crisis in the Middle East, or the release of the next series of the latest blockbuster, or mid-term elections, to distract the public attention from everything else. They simply let the dangerous revelations sink in the massive flood of information that overwhelms today’s readers.

 
 
 

Harry Hopkins,  was FDR’s alter ego and the most important Soviet agent in his administration.

The fact that Hopkins was a Soviet agent has been known for a long time (though perhaps not as widely known as it deserves to be).

Mrs. West simply brought together the mountain of evidence already available.

 

That includes the testimony of Oleg Gordievsky, a very high-ranking and very reliable KGB defector.

 

That includes the statement of George Marshall, the wartime US Army’s Chief of Staff and Hopkins’s friend, who told his official biographer: “Hopkins’s job with the president was to represent the Russian interests. My job was to represent the American interests.”

That includes the episode documented in the Mitrokhin archive about Hopkins tipping off the Soviets about the FBI surveillance of certain Soviet spies; and so on, and so forth.

There are several chapters in the book devoted to the evidence of Hopkins’s treason.

 

In addition to all that, in one paragraph Mrs. West mentions the suspicions, expressed by some, that the mysterious Soviet agent identified in Venona cables only as "Agent 19" was none other than Hopkins.

 

Military supplies to the Soviets under the ‘land lease’ program, were administered by Hopkins.

 

Mrs. West cites evidence that those supplies were given a priority even over urgent needs of US troops on the grounds, and that this policy contributed to such major catastrophes of WWII as the defeat on Philippines and the fall of Singapore.

 

Rather sensibly, she links this with the evidence of Hopkins’s treason. Among other things, she cites interesting evidence that under the cover of ‘lend lease’, Hopkins secretly supplied the Soviets with top secret technology, including details of the Manhattan Project and sensitive atomic materials such as uranium and heavy water.

Leftist academics were easy to corrupt.
 

It is in the nature of a totalitarian regime to try and corrupt not only its own society, but anybody within its reach. This is how they conquer the world.

 

Communism has corrupted greater men than a few arrogant academics. Indeed, the academics turned out to be one of the easier targets.

 

As "Sovietologists" and "Kremlinologists," their position depended on their ability to travel to Moscow, and therefore, on KGB’s good will. Having now mutated into "Cold War historians," they are dependent on having such limited access to secret archives as Moscow would choose to grant them.

 

As academics, they are committed to their own theories, true or false. As a ‘community’, they are bound together with their corrupt colleagues, and have to defend their collective monopoly against intruders.

 

It is for a very long time that they have been no more than a self-serving nomenklatura, caring nothing about the truth, but only about their own elevated positions. Like politicians. Like the media. Like the rest of the modern world.

 
 

American Betrayal is a book about the origins of that corruption.

As a civilization, we have gone through a major moral disaster.

We have been accomplices to mass murders. Moreover, we then tried to cover them up and to live on as if nothing happened.

Without a reckoning, without so much as facing the truth about our history, we shall never recover:

We condemn the German population of the police state from looking the other way from and doing nothing about the Jewish annihilation under way in Nazi concentration camps; we never ask to question ourselves living large in the free world and looking the other way from and saying nothing about ethnic, political, class and religious annihilation under way in Soviet concentration camps.

This split vision derives from the triumph of Communism’s unceasing world revolution against “traditional” morality, objective morality, the morality of fixed standards by which men navigate, or at least perceive the shoals of evil and treacherous behaviors. Such morality tells us there is no separating the idea from its toll. This is the lesson we have erased from our slate.

No wonder, too, that this book is hated by 'the consensus," who feel perfectly comfortable in today’s world, and see no moral crisis at all. They have never thought of the Cold War as a great battle against the ultimate evil that has changed our civilization beyond recognition. To them, the history of that battle has been no more than a comfortable job.

They never saw establishing the truth about it as a sacred duty we owe to the memory of millions of victims; but merely as a matter for “gentlemanly give-and-take” between "liberals" and "conservatives," leading to a sound academic consensus.

 

Yet, they instinctively know this whole subject to be a minefield. The more evidence comes to light, the more scholarship is required to explain it away.

 

Any discussion of the Soviet influence in the West must be channeled, carefully and professionally, into the issue of Soviet "agents" (leaving aside all other kinds of secret collaborators, fellow-travelers, useful idiots, and other forces of progress).

Then, as swiftly and skillfully as before, the idea of "agents" must be replaced with ‘spies’, leaving aside the only kind of Soviet agents who mattered--the agents of influence.

And then, you can argue as long as you like about whether or not one particular Hopkins or another really passed secret information to Moscow, and if yes, just how sensitive that information was, and whether it really helped to create the Soviet nuclear bomb… A nice, endless debate with no practical conclusions– just what the academics need.

 

Diana West, with her “reckless” discoveries, has jeopardized their comfortable world. Once you start talking about moral responsibility for crimes against humanity, what is left of that academic hair-splitting which has been the whole basis of their consensus, and their very existence? How great is a moral difference between an executioner and a mere conformist, between an agent and a sympathizer, between a "liberal" academic and a "conservative" one?

 

Any country that has done this in the past could not escape the conclusion that the entire Establishment, to a greater or lesser extent, had been responsible. And this is one conclusion which the entire Consensus had been working hard to avoid for the past 75 years.

  

While American Betrayal does reveal many little-known and interesting facts, Mrs. West is very far from claiming any credit for her discoveries. She pays excessive tribute to her academic sources.

What she does say is that all those facts do not fit into the overall "conventional" theories of history; that the known facts invite very different conclusions from those we have been offered.

The only role she claims is that of the child from Andersen’s fairy tale, pointing out that the Emperor has no clothes on, while the chamberlains still walk behind him bearing the train that isn’t there.

 

Clearly, history is far too important to be left to the historians 

 
Read more - http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/09/26/Its-worse-than-a-conspiracy-it%20-s-consensus
 

 

Stalin's gulags

The Gulag was nothing less than a slave labor system under Stalin's rule, where millions of men and women transported to Siberia and other outposts of the Soviet empire.  They were more than 2000 camps in total.  Their purpose was to work prisoners to death.
 
There were instances where starving inmates resorted to cannibalism.

Between 1929 and 1960 about 14 million people were incarcerated by the Soviet regime.

 

U.S. historian Anne Applebaum estimates that a minimum of 2,750,000 people died in the gulag system.

The Soviet regime relied on violence and intimidation.  About 14 million people were killed in the civil war that erupted after the revolution, five million of them alone died from hunger.

 

A deliberate famine aimed at forcing peasants into collective farms, resulted in a further seven million deaths between 1928 and 1932. 

 

 

However, many Western intellectuals denied for a long time that such horrors were being perpetrated in the Soviet Empire.

 

 

Stalin's purge of Communist Party members in the mid-1930s resulted in approximately 600,000 people being tortured and killed.

 

The Western Left looked the other way or made excuses.  They also made excuses when Stalin made a pact with the genocidal Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler.  Stalin and Hitler invaded Poland and divided it between themselves. 

 

 

The irony is that these Western intellectuals of the Left should have been at the vanguard against genocide, imperialism and the violation of human rights.

Instead, they continued to worship Stalin and his regime.

They defended a regime where only the elite had access to luxury goods while the majority of the population barely survived, if at all.

Christianity and other religions were aggressively discouraged; some ethnic minorities, persecuted.

And a regime of surveillance, fear and distrust pervaded till the very end of the Soviet regime - where no one could trust anyone, even their own family and friends.
 

 

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RELATED

Deportees to Nazino Island resorted to cannibalism - They were abandoned there with nothing.

The deportation to Nazino island -The Nazino affair was the mass deportation of 6,000 people, 4,000 of whom died, on Nazino Island in the Soviet Union in 1933.

 

The small, isolated Western Siberian island is located about 800 km north of Tomsk, in Alexandrovsky District, Tomsk Oblast near the confluence of the Ob and Nazina Rivers.

 

It is called "Death Island" or "Cannibal Island" because about 4,000 out of 6,000 Soviet "special settlers" died there during the summer of 1933, after being abandoned with only flour for food, few tools and little clothing or shelter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazino_affair

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NAZINO ISLAND -  Thousands of Soviet-era prisoners rounded up in Joseph Stalin's brutal purges were dumped without food or shelter on a remote island in Siberia, where they turned to cannibalism. 

              

Newly disclosed documents from a Kremlin archive show that more than 4000 of the 6000 prisoners abandoned on Nazino, an inhospitable and deserted slip of land in a river 2400km northeast of Moscow, died in less than four weeks in the late spring of 1933.

 

Several dozen cases of cannibalism were recorded as prisoners sought to live off the bodies scattered around the island. Others were killed for their flesh.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/stalins-island-exiles-turned-to-cannibalism/story-e6frg6so-1111113307928

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THE SOVIET PERSECUTION OF RELIGIOUS AND ETHNIC GROUPS

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Christians_in_the_Soviet_Union

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin_and_antisemitism
 

BRITAIN AND THE US SECRETLY HELPED HITLER DURING THE WAR
http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2013/08/britain-and-us-secretly-helped-hitler.html


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