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I was completely disgusted a few years back, when the NY Times did a front page, fawning feature story on an old age home for communists in this country.

It noted, as if it was sweet, the busts and paintings of Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Castro, Che, that decorated the place. The old bastards were chock full of quotes about how they lamented the slow death of the movement, and longed for the glory days long past.

Somehow, I don't expect the Times to do such a feature on either aging Nazis or Republicans, the only two groups they acknowledge as evil.

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AM - This is my last attempt to post this because I have done so three times and it doesn't appear on the thread. I have no idea where it went and it does not show up on a self-search. -CO

Why the double standard? Part of the reason, The Black Book suggests, lies in the fact that while Nazism was completely vanquished in World War 11-its crimes exposed, its leaders tried and condemned-Communism was never clearly and publicly repudiated in the eyes of the world. After all, the Communists were our allies in the war against the Nazis; Soviet judges even participated in the trials at Nuremberg.

I disagree with his assignment of the cause of the disparity. After all, the Soviets participated in beginning WWII with the attack on Poland.

The reason for the unequal treatment of the crimes of communism and fascism is both simpler and more frightening than an alliance of a necessity that never existed: The Roosevelt Administration was riddled with Communists as is the American media and the academic left to this day. The winners wrote the history while those who won the victory with the blood of their young men remain their intended future victims.

Communists hold patriots in total contempt, being in its essence a tool of those who would reinstitute feudal fascism. Consider Orwell's prescient observations from his experience of the Spanish Civil War in 1933:

From Homage to Catalonia:

In reality, it was the Communists above all others who prevented revolution in Spain. Later, when the Right Wing forces were in full control, the Communists showed themselves willing to go a great deal further than the Liberals in hunting down revolutionary leaders.

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Between the Communists and those who claim to stand to the Left of them there is a real difference. The Communists hold that Fascism can be beaten by alliance with sections of the capitalist class (the Popular Front); their opponents hold that this maneuver simply gives Fascism new breeding-grounds. The question has got to be settled; to make the wrong decision may be to land ourselves in for centuries of semi-slavery.