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The marriage of 'true minds'?
True? Sure....true to the totalitarian dream.
....Joseph Stalin, Adolph Hitler, .......and Franklin Roosevelt.
1. Misdirection- the tool of the magician.....and the charlatan.
This tool was used to perfection by the leaders of the most evil of regimes, so much so that to this day, most of society accepts the doctrines of the Soviets as normal and even reputable.
a. There are 'soup Nazis,' and 'grammar Nazis,'....but no 'soup commies,' or 'grammar commies.'
b. "Fifty years of liberal propaganda got people to thinking of Communist Party members as lovable idealists and the urge to fire them from their government jobs as an irrational anachronistic prejudice."
And this..
."When anti-communism took its toll in Hollywood, the blacklisting took the “deadly” form of not having ones name in the credits, or living in Paris, or not being able to sell a teleplay for as much as three years. This for folks who had no problem with Ukrainian farmers and their children eating their shoes."
Coulter
2. The actual events and actions were far more stark:
"We may perhaps put this in perspective in the present case by saying that the actions here recorded about twenty human lives were lost for, not every word, but every letter in this book." This was the second sentence in Sovietologist and historian, Robert Conquest's book, "The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine."
That sentence alone represents 3,040 human lives. The paperback version of the book is 430 pages.
a. "And the children's faces were aged, tormented, just as if they were seventy years old. And by spring they no longer had faces. Instead, they had birdlilke heads with beaks, or frog heads- thin, wide lips- and some of them resembled fish, mouths open. In one hut there would be something like a war. Everyone would keep close watch over everyone else...
The wife turned against her husband and the husband against his wife. The mother hated the children. And in some other hut love would be inviolable to the very last. I knew one woman with four children. She would tell them fairy stories and legends so that they would forget their hunger. Her own tongue could hardly move, but she would take them into her arms even though she had hardly the strength to lift her arms when they were empty. Love lived on within her. And people noticed that where there was hate people died off more swiftly. Yet love, for that matter, saved no one. The whole village perished, one and all. No life remained in it."
From the novel "Forever Flowing," by Vasily Grossman.
This, government school grads, is the education that has been denied you.
True? Sure....true to the totalitarian dream.
....Joseph Stalin, Adolph Hitler, .......and Franklin Roosevelt.
1. Misdirection- the tool of the magician.....and the charlatan.
This tool was used to perfection by the leaders of the most evil of regimes, so much so that to this day, most of society accepts the doctrines of the Soviets as normal and even reputable.
a. There are 'soup Nazis,' and 'grammar Nazis,'....but no 'soup commies,' or 'grammar commies.'
b. "Fifty years of liberal propaganda got people to thinking of Communist Party members as lovable idealists and the urge to fire them from their government jobs as an irrational anachronistic prejudice."
And this..
."When anti-communism took its toll in Hollywood, the blacklisting took the “deadly” form of not having ones name in the credits, or living in Paris, or not being able to sell a teleplay for as much as three years. This for folks who had no problem with Ukrainian farmers and their children eating their shoes."
Coulter
2. The actual events and actions were far more stark:
"We may perhaps put this in perspective in the present case by saying that the actions here recorded about twenty human lives were lost for, not every word, but every letter in this book." This was the second sentence in Sovietologist and historian, Robert Conquest's book, "The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine."
That sentence alone represents 3,040 human lives. The paperback version of the book is 430 pages.
a. "And the children's faces were aged, tormented, just as if they were seventy years old. And by spring they no longer had faces. Instead, they had birdlilke heads with beaks, or frog heads- thin, wide lips- and some of them resembled fish, mouths open. In one hut there would be something like a war. Everyone would keep close watch over everyone else...
The wife turned against her husband and the husband against his wife. The mother hated the children. And in some other hut love would be inviolable to the very last. I knew one woman with four children. She would tell them fairy stories and legends so that they would forget their hunger. Her own tongue could hardly move, but she would take them into her arms even though she had hardly the strength to lift her arms when they were empty. Love lived on within her. And people noticed that where there was hate people died off more swiftly. Yet love, for that matter, saved no one. The whole village perished, one and all. No life remained in it."
From the novel "Forever Flowing," by Vasily Grossman.
This, government school grads, is the education that has been denied you.
