“Politicians do not make good historians”
Published: 03 July, 2009, 20:41
Edited: 23 October, 2010, 04:49
For many years the west was downplaying the role of the Soviet Union in WWII and was completely overlooked in western historiography, says John Laughland from the Institute for Democracy and Cooperation in Paris.
“When you look at the history of the Second World War, the fighting in the east was of such an enormous magnitude that the fighting in the west, like the Normandy landing, pales into insignificance, they are almost non-events in comparison,” Laughland said.
“One can, of course, compare Soviet communism and German Nazism, but there’s one big difference that emerges. Hitler came to power explicitly on the basis of war and racial prosecution. Soviet communism never had a racist element in the way Nazi Germany did.”
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Please do not use the words like : The West or American....You should point out exactly what country? or America government....that better for you and do not make we feel you are our peoples enemy...Please RT.Thanks! Remember American did not want to do wrong thing....We do not have the power do that...our government...is running by a group of very rich... Even Obama is ,just a front guy...no power at all !
I disagree that there was no racial aspect to Communism taking hold of Russia. The Bolsheviks were unquestionably run by Jews who hated the Russian people. Leon Trotsky, Lenin, Zinoviev, Kamenov, Sverdlov, were the top leaders of the Bolsheviks and they are all Jews who spoke Yiddish. These Jews were responsible for millions upon millions of Christian murders, and more unspeakable crimes that make Nazi germany's alleged crimes look like kids games.
Its about time somnoee wrote about this.