Well, looks like we’ve got a live one here.
You fail to understand that Communists in the 20’s and 30’s were nothing more than sockpuppets of their ideological masters in Moscow, i.e., Lenin and Stalin. If they were ‘aligned’ with the Free French, it was pure opportunism and you ought to know that. As for Tito, he was a Communist first, his alleged ‘independence’ from Moscow not withstanding.
The Communists you cite were ALL on the wrong side, because at their core they were on STALIN’s side, and that IS the wrong side if you’ll give your head a shake and wake up those slumbering neurons up there.
As for the U.S. supporting Stalin against Hitler? You better damn well believe that was a mistake, we should have hung Stalin out to dry because the historical record demonstrates that Stalin was in fact even more of a genocidal murderer than Hitler was, something that doesn’t get talked about very much. The fact is, Hitler screwed up after launching Operation Barbarossa by not treating the Soviet civilians with even a minimum of respect, because many Russians welcomed the invading German troops as liberators, not as conquerers. Naturally, once the Nazis started butchering them they rallied to Uncle Joe and ‘Mother Russia’ and the rest is history. The reason the U.S. opened the floodgates of lend lease to the Soviet Union was because FDR’s administration was shot through with Communists, and his own Vice President (Henry Wallace) was the epitome of a ‘useful idiot’ (as Communists define the term), thank God that f’in goofball got dropped from the ticket in ‘44.
What you need pal, is to refresh yourself with the history of Communism, which ranks right up there with Islamofascism as the deadliest man-made political virus ever unleashed upon the Earth.
The only good Communist is a dead Communist. Learn it. Know it. Don’t forget it.
> If they were ‘aligned’ with the Free French, it was pure opportunism and you ought to know that. As for Tito, he was a Communist first, his alleged ‘independence’ from Moscow not withstanding.
They fought and died fighting Nazis all the same — which in my books makes them Good Guys: their unfortunate misbegotten ideology notwithstanding.
> The reason the U.S. opened the floodgates of lend lease to the Soviet Union was because FDR’s administration was shot through with Communists, and his own Vice President (Henry Wallace) was the epitome of a ‘useful idiot’ (as Communists define the term), thank God that f’in goofball got dropped from the ticket in ‘44.
And the reason why America opposed Churchill’s desire to keep the tanks rolling on to Moscow after Berlin fell was...?
> What you need pal, is to refresh yourself with the history of Communism, which ranks right up there with Islamofascism as the deadliest man-made political virus ever unleashed upon the Earth
No argument that communism is a bad thing. It isn’t the only bad thing.
The communists didn’t bomb London and send 6 million Jews to the gas chambers — the Nazis did. The communists didn’t bomb Pearl Harbor and rape & pillage their way thru Southeast Asia and the South Pacific — Imperial Japan did. Stalin never crossed swords with the West in anger, and in fairness we have the US to thank for that.
America obviously sees communism as being the major evil: I think that view would not be as predominant outside the US. Europeans and Commonwealth countries would probably rank Nazism and Fascism as being worse evils, by way of their direct experience during WW-II.
Islamofascism worse than Nazism? Really?
The truth is that dictators of any stripe are the biggest evil, regardless of political ideology. And the same will be true of America if it loses its checks and balances, whether the presidential dictator is on the left, the right or the center, Christian, Muslim, or atheist.
Freedom is the key. Always has been, always will be.