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| How the Kremlin hijacked Labour: Diary of a Kremlin insider reveals the hold Soviets over Labor |
| 2009-12-07 |
| The Lancashire blacksmith's son and leader of the Communist Party of Great Britain stood in front of the group of high-flying young Left-wingers at Cambridge University. Harry Pollitt told them: 'Don't join us. Work hard, get good degrees, join the Establishment and serve our cause from within.' It was a few years after World War II and they took Pollitt at his word. Within a decade, the Communist Party foundered (its membership peaked at 60,000 in 1945) as Pollitt's bright young devotees infiltrated the Establishment. They were soon exercising considerable influence in universities, the state education system, publishing houses, the legal hierarchy and the civil service. But it was in politics that these high-flying members of the Left established their greatest power-base, both in the Labour Party and the trades' union movement. Just how deep the tentacles of communism reached into the heart of British government has now been revealed with the emergence of an extraordinary diary by Anatoly Chernyaev, the Soviet Union's contact man with the West at the icy height of the Cold War. Meticulously detailed and written by hand on lined notepaper, the diary has come to light in the U.S. National Security Archive. It tells the story of a 'special relationship' not between Britain and America - but between the British Labour Party and Soviet communists. It was a relationship that lasted more than 30 years, right up to Margaret Thatcher's arrival as Prime Minister in 1979 and beyond. Indeed, one of the most shocking of the diary's many revelations is how Labour leaders Michael Foot and Neil Kinnock colluded with the Soviet communists to try to beat their 'common enemy', Margaret Thatcher. But more worrying, perhaps, is the fact that the document shows in stark detail how the political ideology of so many of those who govern us today was shaped by the unspeakable communist creed of the Soviet Union. The unpalatable truth is that many ministers in Government today rose through the ranks of a British socialist movement that was heavily influenced - and even controlled - by the Kremlin in Moscow. |
| Posted by:ed |
| #1 It's interesting how they implicate Neil Kinnock in this article when you remember that when Joe Biden was caught plagiarizing a speech, it was Neil Kinnock's speech that he plagiarized. The only thing I can't understand is why Gordon Brown and Barack Obama aren't closer. Maybe Obama's afraid that Brown will blow his cover. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-12-07 13:11 |