This is an article from our series on septic media
by Grover Furr
As usual, the invaluable Grover Furr wades into the thick and fetid pools of anticommunist fabrication to destroy many of the myths underscoring the fear and loathing of all things connected with Stalin. Intelligent people have long understood that the West s deliberate demonisation of Stalin was and remains a permanent psyop to keep people corraled away from examining the promise of communism. The alarms about Stalin s crimes is a case of stunning hypocrisy. For one thing, a country like the US or Britain or France who have trained death squads for generations, who have meddled across the globe, invariably on the side of tyrants, exploiters of every stripe, and plutocrats, have no right to pretend being shocked by the crimes of Stalin . (Or Mao, for that matter, or Fidel, all members of that club that Washington always has in store to serve as bogeymen when anti-communist hysteria is required which unfortunately
BY JACQUES R. PAUWELS
Cartoon in the Evening Standard depicting Hitler greeting Stalin after the invasion of Poland –The cartoon is actually deliberately misleading, seeding the notion that Nazism and Communism are two equally evil totalitarianisms and that both countries were guilty of starting WW2, a form of historical revisionism currently sponsored by the West as part of a disinformation war against Russia. (Fair Use)
In a remarkable book,
1939 : The Alliance That Never Was and the Coming of World War II, the Canadian historian Michael Jabara Carley describes how, at the end of the 1930s, the Soviet Union repeatedly tried, but finally failed, to conclude a pact of mutual security, in other words a defensive alliance, with Britain and France. This proposed arrangement was intended to counter Nazi Germany, which, under Hitler’s dictatorial leadership, had been behaving more and more aggressively, and it was likely to involve some other countries, including Poland and Cze