How the mainstream media revises history to fit their template
By Jerry on Freedom
Common Sense and Wonder
<<< July 12, 2006 — Mikhail Gorbachev is generally regarded as the man who broke down the “iron curtain” that separated the communist world from the West and thawed the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Now, 15 years after a coup removed him from power and the Soviet Union dissolved, he has some stern words for the United States, whose relationship with Russia has soured lately.
(ABC News) >>>
Mr. G. no more “broke down the iron curtain” than Admiral Doernitz ended Nazism. He just happened to be in charge when the “evil empire” fell. Here is a prime example of unquestioning journalism at it’s best. Not one mention of Ronald Regan, Margaret Thatcher, the Pope or Lech Walensa. Yup, It was just good hearted Gorby that brought down the wall.
He was in reality trying to save Communism and nothing more.
Under Gorby the countries they occupied and controlled would have remained within the Soviet Union and not free as they are today. That’s why it took a coup to get rid of him. I’ll credit him for a peaceful turnover of power, but I don’t think he had a choice since he may no longer had control of the military which as you will recall was helping Yeltsin.
He’s got some nerve talking about exporting a system of government as if the Communists weren’t among the worlds greatest colonialists — what else were the long string of satellite states. The Communists didn’t export Communism between 1917 and 1991, right. Anybody remember Comintern?
Our relations with Russia are strained because they have opposed us at every turn and usually just for their own economic gain. They are against the war on terror that is unless it involves Chechnya or one of the Muslim dominated “stans” that border Russia.
By the way Mr. G, we may not be smarter than the Russians, but we are wiser. It’s very tough to take seriously a country that perpetually seeks an authority figure to lead…they live in the 21st Century and still yearn for the Czarist 19th or 18th Centuries.
Mr. G. has an unpleasant history in Afghanistan, wasn’t that trying to impose your will on another country. The stains of the Soviet Union’s record for brutality and environmental destruction will not wash away so easily. But, then again Mr. G. is saying nothing more than you would get from his ideological compatriots, Ted Turner, Madam Albright, Yoko Ono, and a good portion, if not all, of the American “Progressive” Left.
It’s tough to be a loser isn’t it Mr. G. But, thanks to the American Left he lives the life of a winner. To the best of my knowledge he’s living in the Presidio section of San Francisco, a truly beautiful spot that has few houses for its size and was once a military base. No Russian housing for this man. How he got to live in the Presidio is unknown to me but one doesn’t just go to a real estate agent and say I want a house in the Presidio.
Ms. Shipman you should be ashamed at such a piece of hagiography.
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