[elcid1970]

You nailed it! Until Hitler broke his nonagression pact with Stalin & invaded the USSR in June 1941, Guthrie was a good little commie like all the others who chanted “The Yanks Are Not Coming!” & preached strict isolationism.

After June 22nd, the commies in America began chanting “The Yanks Are Not Coming Too Late!!” and the alliance with “our heroic Soviet ally” was a matter of Party discipline while Comrade Woody inscribed his guitar with “This Machine Kills Fascists!” and hit the road for the war effort.

Since 1967 Woody Guthrie has been First Peoples’ Commissar of Soviet Hell.

[Tax-chick]

Since 1967 Woody Guthrie has been First Peoples’ Commissar of Soviet Hell.

I see what you did there. (In the Kingston Trio version.) My mother was into folk music in the 70s.

[Sherman Logan]

Until Hitler broke his nonagression pact with Stalin & invaded the USSR in June 1941, Guthrie was a good little commie like all the others who chanted “The Yanks Are Not Coming!” & preached strict isolationism.

True, but incomplete. Up to August 1939 commies around the world preached anti-fascism.

Hitler and Stalin signed their pact and commies abruptly switched their POV, only to switch back less than two years later.

[omega4412]

Is there anyone here with the screen name “Counter-revolutionary cad”?

[Mrs. Don-o]

I'm astonished at the not-Godpleasing malice of this., We are not permitted to say anyone is definitively in hell --- not Judas Iscariot, not even Hitler or Stalin, and not Woody Guthrie.

There is a very good reason why the Church will canonize, but will not demonize.

Note well, I am not saying that one cannot judge ideologies as good or evil, words as true or false, actions as right or wrong. But the souls of men and the extent of the Divine Wisdom are beyond your purview, and mine.