the heroic image of joseph stalin found in archives films of the 30s and 40s belies the fact that he was responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of people in slave labor camps as a result of artificial famines and executed under any number of purges. after stalin s death in 1953, the communist party under khrushchev began gradually discrediting the dictadictator record. he encouraged the formation of memorial. but the organization created today may go far beyond the setting up of mere memorials to the victims of stalin s brutality where once statues stood in his honor. this poet said, if we can t save the past, soviets can at least
consistent. when you have organizations like the nba that refuse to do something similar decrying racial injustice at home and painting black lives matter on their courts but not saying anything about the chinese market. i applaud the tennis association. they put black lines matter behind the court last fall but standing by their principles and applying that consistently with respect to actual human rights abuses in china. bill: trying to get steve simon on the show. to the owner of nike. let s fly to china together and visit the slave labor camps and look at that? on friday night the lakers with lebron james were in boston and there was a chance there for
i m sure there will be some quiet pressure. i want to hammer this and one of the great untold stories in sports now. there are many nba players currently on the court will chinese sneaker deals. when there was a conflict about uighur, the muslim minority in a province. china said not only are we going to continue with these slave labor camps, the chinese sneaker companies came out and bragged that their shoes were made with chinese slave labor to pick cotton and nba players are endorsing and wearing those sneakers on the court in nba games right now. the fact that most in the media are ignoring this is a form of rank hypocrisy and it needs to be discussed, debated, and it needs to change quite frankly. bill: fascinating issue here. we re watching from afar and keep an eye on it too, clay. you are right about february when the world descends about
public health and wearing a mask is just beyond the pale. i can t imagine what it s like for you, wolf. your parents were in slave labor camps. and i m the son of holocaust survivors and all four of my grand parents were murdered during the holocaust and two of them at auschwitz. i never knew any of my grandparents. my parents did survive. they were young and strong and came to the united states and started a new life after world war ii in beautiful buffalo, new york, hand had this great opportunity, but i ve often said especially since we saw on that january 6th assault on the u.s. capital that guy raring that camp auschwitz shirt. my parents had passed away, but if they would have seen that, they would have said how is that possible here in the united states of america to see something like that going on, and if they would have heard the fwrords this so-called congresswoman utter these ugly, ugly comparisons between wearing masks to save yourself and to save others, they would have
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