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Stalin Was A Dictator

posted 9 years ago by bloody-3
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This whole series of propaganda films (WHY WE FIGHT) repeatedly condemns Hitler and Mussolini for being dictators. Stalin was also a dictator but his regime in the USSR receives no negative comment. This type of hypocrisy is insane - I don't know how anyone can be so two faced! Everything they criticise in Hitler/Mussolini - dictatorship, one party state, concentration camps, secret police, press censorship - they support in Stalin. These films reflect the official policy of Churchill www.heretical.com/miscellx/churchil.html and Roosevelt www.jrbooksonline.com/fdr-scandal-page/fdr.html It didn't come about as a result of the outbreak of the soviet-nazi war either. As his first major foreign policy act Roosevelt gave diplomatic recognition to the USSR in 1933. This was at a time when Stalin was starving millions of Ukrainians to death - www.thenewamerican.com/culture/history/item/4656-holodomor-the-secret-holocaust-in-ukraine Roosevelt praised Stalin in a telegram sent to him offering congratulations for 20 years of communist government in 1937. Churchill was just as bad. In 1940 after France surrendered he wrote to Stalin asking him to enter the war on Britain's side. The continual theme of the WHY WE FIGHT series is that it was a war for democracy yet there is no criticism of Stalin who was just as much a dictator as the Axis leaders. Hypocrisy at its worst!

[–] davidhull6 9 years ago

And your point is? You act like Captain Louis Reynaud- "Gambling going on here! I'm shocked. Shocked". It's called the real world. Fighting one enemy at a time. Grow up.

[–] russalex86 8 years ago

It undermines the series. Even in those days viewers would know that Stalin was a dictator.

Also, why not engage in a discussion properly instead of insulting a user you disagree with.

[–] bloody-3 8 years ago

I would also point out that the invasion of Poland in 1939 was carried out by 2 countries. Germany on September 1 1939 and the Soviet Union on September 17 1939 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Poland
This series does not mention Stalin's invasion of Poland.
During the war news of the mass murder of Polish officers in the Katyn forest broke and even though US and British intelligence both said it was most likely that the Soviets committed this atrocity both Roosevelt and Churchill lied through their teeth and blamed the Germans.
www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=56206
www.katyn.org.au
Even though they knew what Stalin was really like Roosevelt and Churchill both agreed to hand over Poland to the Soviet leader at the Yalta Conference in 1945. So the reason for going to war in the first place was turned into a mockery by the American and British leadership. Not to mention that it was a sickening act of betrayal and treachery to the Poles.

[–] tedmccarron 8 years ago

In the second film in this series, "The Nazis Strike" they do mention the Soviet invasion of Poland, but it's a complete white wash. They mention that the Soviets "took up positions along the Bug River" but don't mention that they had to INVADE Poland from the east in order to do so. They also fail to mention how they split Poland with the Nazis,and the entire series mentions nothing about the Winter War where the Soviets invaded Finland. There's also no mention of the Soviet invasion and conquest of the Baltic states; Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.

[–] brux (14666) 2 years ago

There is a lot to talk about here.
The first thing is that the world then was nothing like the world today.
There was no telephone that people could pick up and talk to someone half the world away.
Especially during wartime.
No one knew what Stalin was. Hell, no one knew that Germany was going to have mass extermination camps.
The point of this movie was the courage and tenacity of the Russian people.
It was a brilliant movie.
I love that Why We Fight series, and today, the world would do well to look at this movie and think deeply about who is playing what role today in the Ukrainian conflict.
Particularly the opening sequence of the movie where it talks about all the times Russia has been invaded.
There is a lot to learn even today by watching this movie.