Freedom of Thought

Surprised | by Paul J. Norton

 

It's helpful sometimes to recall from history the nature of some things, such as the communist opposition to Nazism. In W.W.II our ally, Russia, took more losses than anyone else, and gave us a pivotal turn in the war. Thousands of captured Russian troops ended up in Nazi slave labor camps and were worked to death. Russia had made the great sacrifice of their scorched earth strategy in order to leave the advancing army without forage. There Nazi butts were way over extended by the time they got to Moscow where there was a fresh and enormous force of Russians waiting for them.

 

And it had been the Russians who were the Nazis greatest enemies all along. Hitler blamed the Reichstag fire on the communist party and then claimed dictatorial powers. We could see some part of our own communist phobia as being, in part at least, the fears of the Nazi spies and traitors in the background of things who would expect no quarter from communists.

 

Interesting article here by Fidel Castro, who I always felt was misunderstood in the States.