Saint FDR and Saint Truman both need to be taken down about 50 pegs. Absolute scumbags, the both of them.
Accusations like this never bother anyone on the Left, I wouldn't let it bother me. What do people say when you run into flack?
All of this is true and has been excised from popular history.
If you don’t understand this, you don’t understand half of what happened in World War II.
I have one minor criticism of the book: It needs an editor, particularly the opening chapter, which attempts to relate the current War against Islam (let's face it, that's where we are, like it or not) to the Cold War. While it might be true, it shouldn't be in there. The book can stand on its own as a purely revisionist narrative of the Cold War, which the author properly identifies as running not from the end of the Second World War, but from before the beginning of it.
For Radosh, Horowitz, and all of the other naysayers, here's another excellent book, which bolsters most of Diana West's positions and was written by no bomb thrower, but a former American President: Freedom Betrayed Herbert Hoovers Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath.
I was surprised by the existence of this book. Hoover started out his career and ended his presidency as a very liberal Republican; his predecessor, Coolidge, had nothing but disdain for Hoover's activism. As a matter of fact, a great many of the New Deal programs were actually economic reforms Hoover wanted to try, but he was sandbagged by a Democrat Congress in order to secure his electoral defeat.
But eventually Hoover became a conservative, and he wrote a fine book, well worth reading. [Just skip the Introduction, which is 100 pages of some academic's medal polishing over his editing that doesn't contribute anything to the work, unless you want to understand sources and methods. Most people won't.]
The conventional historical narrative, that Roosevelt gave away so much at Yalta because of his failing health, is scandalously false. It is not supported by any of the facts on the ground, nor by any statements of contemporary witnesses. In source after source we discover that from almost the very day tens of thousands of Polish POW's were repatriated from Siberia to form a Polish allied army in exile, Roosevelt intended to give their country, as well as the Baltics, to Stalin.
This is in 1942. This is not at Tehran or Yalta. Roosevelt made various remarks in 1942, 1943, and 1944 -- despite the explicit wording of the Atlantic Charter which he and Churchill signed and to which the Russians assented on numerous occasions -- that Russia would receive EVERYTHING she had been granted in the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact, and as a matter of fact, a great deal more, and that people in Eastern Europe would "simply have to accept that."
Nobody wants to address these claims, and have chosen instead to focus on narrow questions about whether Harry Hopkins was a spy or not, and whether the General in charge of Lend-Lease did indeed see proscribed nuclear materials being shipped to the Russians.
But the betrayal of Eastern and Central Europe, the deadly repatriation of millions of Ukrainians and White Russians to the Gulag by American and British Armies, and the pointless concessions made to Stalin in the Far East are topics no one wants to discuss. Why? Because the historical record is clear: Roosevelt wasn't swindled on these deals. He made these deals, he understood these deals, and he fully assented to them long before Yalta.
I am paraphrasing but I recall Whitaker Chambers stating in Witness that his Soviet handler once proudly boasted the Soviets had deeper penetration into Washington, DC, than they had had during Weimar. Ms West was using "occupied" correctly and in that sense.
Hopkins may or may not have been "Agent 19" but his entire career shows he supported Soviet objectives and, as FredZarguna notes in post #10, The most serious contention in West's book, and fully supported in Herbert Hoover's Secret History of World War II, is not whether Harry Hopkins is any particular case reference in Venona; it's the degree to which Stalin got everything he wanted, and more.
This is awesome. I will get this book.
The light of truth scatters Democrats like cockroaches.
My dad fought in the Warsaw Uprising or 1944, he never forgave Roosevelt and Churchill for selling out Poland to the Soviets.
As an aside, I have always found David Horowitz an angry, unpleasant individual - even when I have agreed with him.
Worth reading in its entirety.
There is a considerable amount of contemporary primary source material (diaries, etc) that show how knowledge of the Morgenthau Plan had the effect of increasing the resolve of many German soldiers who were not particularly imbued with Nazi ideology. Such things didn't affect the DC elite and their ancillary intelligentsia, but they did impact the men at the point of the Allied spear.
Mr. niteowl77
This campaign, aided by Adler's State Department Chungking roommate John Stewart Service and other U.S. diplomats in China, succeeded, with results that we are still living with today. Meanwhile, an identical propaganda campaign was waged by U.S. and British pro-Red officials to discredit the anti-Communists of the Balkans, in order to deliver control of Yugoslavia to the Communist Tito. This, too, succeeded, resulting in the communization of the country and capture and murder by Tito of his anti-Communist rival, Gen. Draza Mihailovich.
Another piece falls into place, the US betrayal of the Serbs and the resultant false witness Clintonian war against them a second time.
On reading the Book:
West was going to write about MUSLIM penetration of the US of the present.
All the Commie stuff, while immensely important as background, and defining the ‘attitude’ of the government towards penetration (denial); our real problem today is the residual Commie stuff AND the Muslim penetration well fundied and well on its way.
I read Evans book on McCarthy and respect his opinion. However, I will wait for more info and comments by other conservatives before I form my own opinion. I do believe there were many Soviet agents operating in Washington at that time, and West may be right about their influence on the Roosevelt admin. But I want more info. I’m wondering if the truth, like many other things, is in the middle.
West was DEAD RIGHT about one thing in an earlier book...’grown-ups are pretty much extinct in the United States’. I have remarked to my wife before that the adults in Red England conduct themselves like 5-year olds...nearly impossible to even speak with them. This is what happens when you remove the moral compass set by G-d Almighty from the classroom...we have been on a steady decline since 1962, and nothing is going to reverse it.
we are again seeing DC occupied by commies