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Mercer: Grotesquely Stalinist FDR - Contemporary Parallels anyone ?
2015-03-20
[WND] Franklin Delano Roosevelt is not the man to quote in support of the market economy. He was, after all, the president who gave America the assault on free-market capitalism known as the New Deal. He also capitulated to communism at Yalta, 70 years ago. There, in February of 1945, he and Winston Churchill met with Josef Stalin, a genocidal butcher who dwarfed Adolf Hitler, to divvy up the world.

By the time "The Big Three" convened in the Crimean city, the region had long been subdued and decimated by the Bolsheviks. In November and December of 1920 alone, Crimea had been the site of a massacre of 50,000 souls. Kulaks, Cossacks, Ukrainians; priests, White Guards, socialists, nobles, Mensheviks and bourgeoisie: Entire groups had been branded as counterrevolutionaries-by-class, designated as sub-humans worthy of extermination. That is if the Reds' revolutionary utopia was to come into being, which it did.
I often tire of Mercer's Bush bashing, but she is the daughter of a prominent Rabbi and she most certainly understands the threat to Israel and the world.
Posted by:Besoeker

#3  History isn't about 'nice'. History hands you crap sometimes that your choice is bad or worse.

Entire groups had been branded as counterrevolutionaries-by-class, designated as sub-humans worthy of extermination

Bring taught on our campuses right now. Whatcha doing about it?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-03-20 12:31  

#2  OK. Stalin was a bad guy and Roosevelt was a fool. No argument there. But it's a very tenuous link to a couple breakaway eastern Ukrainian provinces. And what are we supposed to do about it, let Obama lead us into WWIII? Is there a term for this particular kind of propaganda?

I'm willing to allow that Obama is an even bigger fool than Roosevelt. Putin is a bad guy too. But if you want to confront Putin, Iran is the place to do it. Hmmmm. Don't see Obama getting all worked up about that. Let's see...we let Iran have nukes and we fight Russia over a couple of eastern Ukrainian provinces that don't mean jack squat to us. Is that what the writer is saying?

And, oh by the way, the whole time this is happening we let the Chinese have our jobs. Let them make our computers. Let them bully and threaten our allies in the Western Pacific. Let them bully and threaten us in the Western Pacific. Is that what the writer is saying?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2015-03-20 11:55  

#1  Shortly after FDRs 4th term, the 22nd Amendment was appended to the Constitution. Too bad it didn't happen earlier.
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-03-20 08:32  

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