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| Book - Foolish Americans Who Trusted In Communists, And What Happened To Them |
| 2008-08-03 |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #9 Let us remember the late Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the greatest chronicler of the evils of the Soviet Union. Yes, he became a crank in the end, but his contributions should not be neglected. |
| Posted by: Eric Jablow 2008-08-03 21:02 |
| #8 Also at that time the USSR was not at (cold) war with the the United States. No, it was in a cold war with the entire western world whose economic and social system it was seeking to overthrow. That was why we denied them recognition until the fellow traveler, FDR, got in the White House. |
| Posted by: Glolunter Smith9947 2008-08-03 08:32 |
| #7 A large library near you might have a copy of Paul Hollander's "Political Pilgrims," about Westerners who saw what they wanted to see in Russia. I know Michael Totten has his fans here, but I view that apologist for Balkan islamism in the same light as the Potemkin Village idiots. Totten is proof in human form that intelligence can co-exist with stupidity. Check out Andrew Bostom's stomp of that morally blind jackass, at Atlas Shrugs (not that I agree with everything that comes out on those pages, albeit done in good faith). |
| Posted by: McZoid 2008-08-03 08:23 |
| #6 The real villains are the Western communist sympathizers who preached the virtues of communism and willfully ignored the massacres and arrests. And usually rewarded them with tenure at our state funded universities. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-08-03 08:22 |
| #5 Also at that time the USSR was not at (cold) war with the the United States. I pity them but I really hope Bertrand Rusell rots in hell and genocide Fonda ends hanging. |
| Posted by: jfm 2008-08-03 08:08 |
| #4 No sympathy. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-08-03 07:41 |
| #3 The real villans are the Western communist sympathizers who preached the virtues of communism and willfully ignored the massacres and arrests. Because it was all worth it if communism could take over the world. |
| Posted by: gromky 2008-08-03 06:07 |
| #2 I have sympathy. They were jobless, homeless, depressed and some people were telling them that Soviet Union was workers pardise. Now no death is ignominiuos enough, no hell is hot enough for those who had been in Soviet Union who was wahta it eally was (not merely a dictatorship but the place onearth where the workers were the more brutally exploited) and repeated the lies. And the hell for those people would still be brutally cold for those who after the survivors trickled in the US and told of their experiences continued supporting the Sovioet Union, the Vietcong salevery fighters and tolsd of the beauties of socialism. That is for Jane Genocide Fonda. |
| Posted by: JFM 2008-08-03 03:50 |
| #1 Too bad, so sad.... No sympathy. Lie down with dog, get up with fleas. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-08-03 00:26 |