Posted on 12/21/2007 3:02:04 AM PST by Doctor13
America has declined backing a UN General Assembly resolution condemning the eulogizing of Nazism.
For a member of the anti-Hitler coalition, the American position, mildly speaking, is bewildering.
It can be seen as consigning to oblivion the past and sacrifices of all those who gallantly fought against fascism to save Europe from the so-called brown plague.
It is not by accident that the Russian foreign ministry has already expressed regrets over the U.S.'s shameful action, for in the adopted resolution supported by 130 U.N members, concern is expressed over the increase in the number of extremist groups preaching racism and xenophobia and spreading fascist ideology.
For any state, the more so the U.S., which uses every opportunity to make a song and dance about its commitment to democracy and humanism not only in words but also lecturing others, eulogizing Nazism should be an abomination.
Today, 60 plus years since the end of World War 2, hatred of man by man ideology remains firmly in the world and it is being unabashedly spread by pro-fascist parties in different countries of our world.
Monuments to Nazi servants and praise extolling SS errand boys have taken place in the Baltic states.
Attempts have been made in Ukraine to elevate members of a rebel army who collaborated with the Nazis to the ranks of members of the liberating army and the dismantling of the monument to those who paid the supreme price to free Europe, stands out like a sore thumb and is a stark reminder of the level of ingratitude man is capable of.
Attempts have also been made to equate the sacrifices of the Soviet Union that lost over 20 million people with those of Nazi Germany that brought untold misery and inhuman privations to Europe
Russia sponsored the resolution condemning glorification of fascism and it has a clear-cut position on the issue, said Alexander Konovalov, president of the Institute of Strategic Evaluations.
"We have received a powerful vaccination against fascism and hence we and most of the rest of the world would not like fascists to be honoured like those who fought against them," said Konovalov.
"This is not the only point. The whole world has paid a heavy price for not recognizing in time the danger posed by fascism. The propelling force of Russia now is to prevent a repeat of that past costly mistake. It sees it as a national and global debt," said Konovalov.
(There is a photo that accompanies the article but I do not know how to post it. If someone can, please do.)
Barack Obama's found a new speech writer.
No thanks.
Folks wanting to see Nazi flags can follow the link, IMHO.
From someone writing within Putin’s Russia, I find this article highly ironic.
No doubt about it. Nazism was and is bad. It was and is no worse than communism though. More have died from that particular bit of socialist utopian idiocy than any other in modern history.
This is something that our own leftards need to be beaten over the head with on a daily basis. Their own degenerate horror show of an ideology is a mass murderer’s wet dream that surpasses even the abomination that is the Nazis.
Forgot to mention the article....
Anything coming out of Russian media is double suspect.
1. It’s coming out of Russia.
2. It’s coming from msm.
Regardless of whether or not any such refusal to sign whatever it is actually happened, I suspect that it did not occur in any way as reported to have occurred.
Communist = International socialist
Socialism = Communism sold by the drink.
snip....
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev’s promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
/..snip
http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm
Socialist = squeamish Communist.
Liberal = wishy-washy socialist.
Facism and Communism.
Socialism’s twin bastard children.
Sounds like a Russkie attack on the Baltic States to me. Also, it’s beyond disgusting to condemn past Fascism, while building the current Fascism. When is Russia going to condemn Communism?
I wonder if anything in this story is true.
Communist = International socialist
Socialism = Communism sold by the drink.
LOL - a great formulation.
Sounds the anti-Ron Paul chorus: "he's not modern and realistic."
F--k that Stalinist dwarf, Putin.
Let's have Russia apologize for the Winter War against Finland, the combined German-Soviet war on Poland, and the German invasion of the Baltic countries. Than, after tearing down all Stalinist imagery and trying Communist party members for crimes against humanit, I'll consider it.
Considering Pauls love for that intellectual twit and Fifth Columnist Murray Rothbard, I find your comment amusing.
My anti-Ron Paulism comes from him being just another cut and runner dressed up in a different guise.
Anyone who believes we can find any safety in retreating to hide behind our borders and trying to mimic the Swiss in dealings with the world is a first order lunatic.
That same idiot crap was most favored by our enemy in the last official global war we fought as a nation. And also by the combined enemies of the one unofficial global war prior to this one.
Run and hide. After that, nothing the man has to say has any value to anyone who actually has a desire to survive as a culture and as an individual.
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