[spanalot]

"A moral compromise I am happy we did not make"

Moral Compromise?

What of the moral compromise as we stood by and did nothing to save 100 million from genocide.

What of the moral compromise that prevents us from bringing the first communist to justice for crimes against humanity.

[MeanWestTexan]

"Moral Compromise?"

Yeah, there was this thing the SS did with Jews. You may have heard about it.

[StJacques]

". . . What of the moral compromise as we stood by and did nothing to save 100 million from genocide. . ."

I think it would be more accurate to say "as we stood by and did little to save 100 million from genocide."

America, and to a lesser extent Great Britain, are the only two nations who spoke with any forcefulness of the crimes being committed by the Communists within their own country. The U.S. did not normalize relations with the Soviets until 1933 in fact, and that may not have happened then if we had not seen Hitler coming to power and the League of Nations collapsing in the wake of Japan's invasion of Manchuria two years earlier.

But unfortunately we had our own "apologists" within this country, such as Lincoln Steffens, who told us "I have seen the future and it works," and Margaret Bourke-White whose Eyes on Russia (1931) showed nothing of the calamity of collectivization that was underway at that very moment, and who were among those who did so much to use the Soviet Union as an alternative to make us "come to grips" with our own social inadequacies, that their voices at least equalized, if not having drowned out entirely, those who were trying to call the Soviets what they really were; mass murderers.