"...43% believed that communist regimes had claimed less than one million lives. A fifth...under ten thousand. The...figure is...around 100 million"This is why the distortion of information by the "Newsmedia" and university professors is so dangerous."...40%...believed that communism contributed to increased prosperity in the world; 22% considered communism a democratic form of government..."
"...a large majority of Swedish journalists are left-wingers, many of them quite far left..."
It amounts to disinformation, censorship, and indoctrination, and it creates an electorate and a population ignorant of reality.
Those who distort the information reaching the public are either too ignorant of this, too self-serving, or too thoroughly indoctrinated themselves to do otherwise, but they dangerously mislead and misguide the public.
An informed public is the best safeguard against tyrrany and against making unwise collective decisions.
The benevolent, if they understand this, will strive to keep the public truthfully informed.
It must always be kept in mind that there are people who, for various reasons, do not want the public to be truthfully informed and will do their best to distort and censor the information reaching the public.
We, the public, must be eternally vigilant.
Evidently, the Swedish public--and the public of other Western European nations--have not been,
And considering the extent of distortion, disinformation, censorship et al. in the American "Newsmedia" and academic institutions, Americans have not been as vigilant as they should be either.
Thank God for the internet and other means of mass communication here in the Information Age!
“We, the public, must be eternally vigilant.
Evidently, the Swedish public—and the public of other Western European nations—have not been,”
- MSM is an even worse problem in Europe than in the US. Add the even larger amount of Socialists/Communists in the education apparatus over here in Europe.
You are perfectly right.
Some years ago, Sweden (my home country) took the initative to a big, international Holocaust conference in Stockholm, in part due to the rapid spread of phoney, semi-scientific ‘Holocaust revisionism’ among young people. There were also several educational efforts made in Swedish schools on the theme of WWII, Nazi Germany and The Holocaust. These measures have obviously resulted in an increased resistance against the above mentioned antisemitic propaganda.
Now, let us together, in both America and Europe deal with the lacking awareness concerning Communist crimes against humanity among younger as well as older generations. Big scale conferences like the one mentioned above
aren’t just PC publicity stunts, coordinated with educational efforts they can, apparently have a major impact.
Let’s unite in fighting tyranny and the enemies of democracy and freedom!