| Yeah, and the foolish fear of Nazism, Fascism, and Bushidoism led us into World War Two. Do you think that the Rape of Nanking or Holocaust were inventions of the West to justify an imperialist contest with the Axis powers? Do you think that the Terror Famine in Ukraine was an invention, to slander Stalin? That the Cultural Revolution was a trivial perturbation in Chinese society? Why should our fear of Communism, which avowedly sought destruction of the capitalist- imperialist powers and the construction of a socialist world around the vanguard state of the Soviet Union,have been foolish, when our trust of Hitler was stupidity itself. Remember, the Iron Curtain image was invoked after Stalin failed to live up to promises he had undertaken at Yalta about elections and respect for the independence of Eastern Europe. This was the equivalent, in Western eyes, to Hitler having annexed Czechoslovakia after being handed the Sudetenland. Yes, there was later bipolarity in the socialist camp as the USSR and the PRC fell into competition. But it was all of a piece in its hostility to US interests, and it took Nixon to exploit the rift for our strategic gain. |
