Luciana Bohne Dear Howard Dickler, the innocence of Bucharin and Trotsky in the Kirov assassination is supported by WaPost (link below), the NYT and the whole Western system of propaganda. That alone, puts matters in doubt. Stephen Cohen’s biography of Bucharin was a sort of Bible for Gorbacev, accordingly, he re-instated Bucharin. I think it’s safe to call Gorbacev a counter-revolutionary, unless one can characterize social democratic tendencies “revolutionary.” I don’t. US ambassador to USSR during the trial told FDR the trials were real and the accused were gulty of plotting regime-change. So, did the diplomats who attended the trials (with probable exception of the Nazi Germans). The post=war origin of “Stalin the Monster” was Kruscev’s 1956 “secret report”–which Mao lambasted, as you probably know, for calling Stalin an autocrat and worse when Khrushchev himself acted as an autocrat, deciding without consulting the fraternal communist parties, to attack Stalin, who had been the representative head of world communist parties, throwing them into confusion, disillusionment and dispersal. We owe it to Khrushchev the lie that Stalin trembled before the Nazis and couldn’t act. For that I refer you to Zhukov’s own memoirs–no such thing, Stalin was prepared (the katiushas, for example, were in action in July 1941, and the German generals knew by July that they had underestimated Soviet preparedness and the strength of the army and military materiel. By late August, they knew the war was either lost or would be eventually. Military historians–even bourgeois ones–acknowledge this. Ericson’s military history books, an English not-communist historian, dismissed and documented Khrushchev lie about Stalin’s “waging war on a globe”: The Road to Stalingrad, for example, among three he wrote. So we have to examine the orthodoxies of the West–or fall victim to its inhumanity for ever. Truth in history matters. It’s pursuit must be a scientific one. I don’t say I have it, but I can say I examine it, check it against other sources, consider the sources (Solzhenitsin was tries for collaborating with Nazis, and wasn’t executed). I thank you for your comments.
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Things to ponder
While our media prostitutes, many Hollywood celebs, and politicians and opinion shapers make so much noise about the still to be demonstrated damage done by the Russkies to our nonexistent democracy, this is what the sanctimonious US government has done overseas just since the close of World War 2. And this is what we know about. Many other misdeeds are yet to be revealed or documented.
Parting shot—a word from the editors
The Best Definition of Donald Trump We Have Found
In his zeal to prove to his antagonists in the War Party that he is as bloodthirsty as their champion, Hillary Clinton, and more manly than Barack Obama, Trump seems to have gone “play-crazy” — acting like an unpredictable maniac in order to terrorize the Russians into forcing some kind of dramatic concessions from their Syrian allies, or risk Armageddon.However, the “play-crazy” gambit can only work when the leader is, in real life, a disciplined and intelligent actor, who knows precisely what actual boundaries must not be crossed. That ain’t Donald Trump — a pitifully shallow and ill-disciplined man, emotionally handicapped by obscene privilege and cognitively crippled by white American chauvinism. By pushing Trump into a corner and demanding that he display his most bellicose self, or be ceaselessly mocked as a “puppet” and minion of Russia, a lesser power, the War Party and its media and clandestine services have created a perfect storm of mayhem that may consume us all.— Glen Ford, Editor in Chief, Black Agenda Report
