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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: Dale Baker who wrote (111007)5/10/2009 11:13:28 AM
From: Suma  Read Replies (1) of 541348
 
I watched a two hour presentation on PBS which is the first of a three part series. Leave it to me to forget the name.

However the second part if on this Wednesday night at 9pm.

It is archival material that has been put together along with personal interviews of survivors of the WW II era and
the relationships amongst Russia,Germany,Great Britain and
USA....

It is reenacted with look alike actors speaking in the native tongue so that a lot of it is closed caption superimposed on
the screen.

Basically it showed all the machinations that went on between
Hitler and Stalin before the war where Hitler ceded half of Poland to Stalin and they signed a 10 year pact of friendship. Of course Hitler was the first to break that one.

Churchill hated Stalin but said he would go to bed with the devil of it hastened the fall of the Nazi's...

FDR thought he could control every one but Stalin was crafty,
deceitful and without heart. He murdered 27 million of his own people and he also murdered 400 Polish elite Army officers
because they had defeated him in one war. Later he lied to the Polish officers who had fled the country when they inquired as to where they comrades were.

I found it fascinating but anyone who had any idea that
Communism under Stalin was a grand idea initiated by Lenin would be sorely disappointed in some of the stories here.

Great look into History only able to be told AFTER the fall of communism.
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