Tag Archives: Soviet Union
Of perpetrators, victims and collaborators (I)
80th anniversary of the invasion of the Soviet Union: No commemoration by the German government, and Bundestag, German President under attack because of his commemoration address in the Karlshorst Museum.
One of the first antifascist leaflets issued in the Soviet Union right after the Nazi invasion on June 22, 1941. The text reads: "Each German soldier on Eastern front is doomed to death."
BERLIN/MOSCOW (german-foreign-policy.com) – The German invasion of the Soviet Union 80 years ago will be internationally commemorated on Tuesday – without any participation by the German government or the Bundestag. This invasion marked the beginning of the German war of annihilation's key phase that had cost the lives of 27 million Soviet citizens, devastated large parts of the country and exposed the Jewish population to German crimes of extermination. The Bundestag should hold no special commemoration, but instead maintain an "undivided commemoration of the entire course of the Second World War," explained Wolfgang Schäuble, President of the Bundestag. Several members of the Bundestag used a "debate" on the war of annihilation to demand that "German crimes" not lead to restraint regarding aggression against today's Russia. Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has Soviet victims of the war of annihilation disappear among the victims of "Central and Eastern Europe" – a choice of terms that conflates Nazi victims and Nazi collaborators: Significant forces from "Central and Eastern Europe" played an active role in the German war of annihilation.
Tagged as Crimes Against Humanity, Falsification of history, german-foreign-policy.com, Glorification of Nazism & neo-Nazism & other practices, Holocaust, Nazi Germany, Soviet Union, This day in history, World War II
Origins of NATO. Geopolitics of Atlanticism – Winston Churchill's 1946 'Iron Curtain' speech
Events related to the establishment of NATO. March 5 is the 75th anniversary of the infamous speech by the former British prime minister | TONY SEED
Winston Churchill and U.S. President Truman arrive at Fulton College in Westminster, Missouri, March 5, 1946, where Churchill would deliver his "Iron Curtain" speech.
(April 6, 2019, Updated March 24, 2021) – Recent U.S. presidents, as past ones, demand that their leadership be accepted on the basis that they alone can establish an international order that will bring about peace and stability. Prior to the advent of the doctrine which claims that the U.S. is the one indispensable nation to which all must submit, that order has traditionally been equated with the interests and demands of an "international community." In this vein, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently issued a thinly-veiled call for a coup d'état against the constitutional government of Venezuela by demanding that "the international community" must immediately unite behind the illegitimate Venezuelan opposition as they chart their path forward because "the moment for a democratic transition is now." Continue reading →
Filed under Canada, Europe, History, United States
Tagged as Anti-Communism, Atlanticism, Canada - Lester Pearson, Canada - W.L. Mackenzie King, Canadian Foreign Policy, Cold War, J.V. Stalin, NATO, Soviet Union, This day in history, U.S. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, U.S. - Henry Truman, Winston Churchill
The role of Anglo-American financiers in preparing World War II
The Merchants of Death – lithograph by Mabel Dwight
By Valentin Katasonov
This article was originally published in 2015 by Strategic Culture Foundation and also reproduced by TML Weekly at that time. We are republishing it today to enlighten readers on the role played by international financiers in World War II and debunk the Anglo-American falsification which blames the Soviet Union for that tragedy so as to exonerate themselves.
The article also clearly examines the origins of the international financial institutions at a time the Trudeau government and provincial governments are once against indebting the country to private interests to unprecedented levels based on the fraudulent claim that this is how to achieve economic recovery. Not only that, the Trudeau government likes to claim that Canada's adherence to these international financial institutions makes it democratic and provides proof of its multilateralism. The material in this article provides ample information which shows that there are obviously various kinds of multilateralism with various kinds of aims and not all of them serve Canada. This the Trudeau and other governments in Canada do not want discussed. Continue reading →
Tagged as Falsification of history, General Motors, Monopolies, Nazi Germany, Soviet Union, war economy, World War I, World War II
Word. Falsificators of History, Chapter 3: The isolation of the Soviet Union and the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact
– Soviet Information Bureau, February 1948 –
After the seizure of Czechoslovakia fascist Germany proceeded with her preparations for war quite openly, before the eyes of the whole world. Hitler, encouraged by Britain and France, no longer stood on ceremony or pretended to favour the peaceful settlement of European problems. The most dramatic months of the prewar period had come. At that time it was already clear that every day was bringing mankind nearer to the unparalleled catastrophe of war. Continue reading →
Tagged as Britain, Falsification of history, France, Nazi Germany, Poland, Soviet Union, Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact (Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact), Word (transcripts & texts), World War II
Falsifications about the origins of the Second World War
Information picket against the glorification of Nazism, Ottawa, August 21, 2020.
By Dougal MacDonald
The government of Canada declared August 23 Black Ribbon Day to spread lies which blame the former Soviet Union for starting the Second World War. The Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact with Hitler Germany on August 23, 1939 which the government of Canada claims was a "military alliance" to take joint military action against some third country. But the pact contained no such agreement. The agreement was only that the two countries would not attack each other. Continue reading →
Filed under Canada, History
Tagged as Anti-Communism, Falsification of history, France, Glorification of Nazism & neo-Nazism & other practices, J.V. Stalin, Monopolies, Monuments & Statues, More articles by Dougal MacDonald, Munich Agreement 1938, Nazi Germany, Poland, Soviet Union, Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact (Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact), Winston Churchill, World War II
Latvian Exhibit in Ottawa: Canadian War Museum should be condemned for falsifying what Canadians stand for
Exhibition at Canadian War Museum (Embassy of Latvia)
The Canadian War Museum in Ottawa is featuring a special exhibit titled "The Latvian Tragedy – 1941." The exhibit coincides with Latvia's use of March 16, to hail Nazi collaborators in that country as freedom fighters and to declare that in 1941 the Soviet Union, which was the first country to seriously prepare to counter the Nazi assault on itself and all of Europe, was the invader, not Hitler's Germany. The exhibit runs from March 3-22, 2020.[1] Continue reading →
Filed under Canada, Uncategorized
Tagged as Canadian Forces, Canadian War Museum, Falsification of history, Latvia, Latvia - Rumbula Massacre, Nazi Germany, Soviet Union, World War II
Significance of the Non-Aggression Pact signed by the Soviet Union with Nazi Germany
Aim of falsifications of the origins of the Second World War | Dougal MacDonald
Great Soviet victory against the Nazis at Stalingrad
Red Army soldiers raise the red flag over the Reichstag in Berlin, May 2, 1945, signifying victory over fascism in Europe.
On August 23, 1939, the Soviet Union signed what is now known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Non-Aggression Pact with Germany. The agreement stipulated that Germany would not attack the Soviet Union and the Soviet Union would not attack Germany. Future events proved the farsightedness of Stalin in signing the pact which was the best of all available alternatives. It provided the Soviet Union with 22 months of peace so as to prepare herself to withstand the inevitable German invasion which Hitler had foreshadowed in his 1925 book, Mein Kampf, when he openly declared that Germany needed to "turn our gaze to the lands in the east." The pact also put an end to the Anglo-American and French policy of egging Hitler toward the East so that an isolated Soviet Union would end up facing massive German forces. Continue reading →
Tagged as Black Ribbon Day, Britain, Canada, Czech Republic, France, More articles by Dougal MacDonald, Nazi Germany, Poland, Soviet Union, World War II
August 1, 2019 · 10:04 pm
75th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising: The treachery of historical falsifications
When a city of almost one million people was nearly obliterated from the face of the earth
Monument in Warsaw, inaugurated in 1989, to those who fought in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising.
Much has been written by historians about the Warsaw Uprising in Poland which took place from August 1 to October 2, 1944, during the Second World War [1]. Much of it is false. The main aims of the past and modern falsifiers of the history of the Warsaw Uprising have been to attack the Soviet Union and its great leader, Joseph Stalin, to whitewash the Polish reactionaries and their modern-day descendants, and to try to pretend that the innumerable Nazi war crimes which were committed against the Polish people were a mere historical footnote. But the facts of history are stubborn things and they do not change just because of the scribblings of reactionary historians. Continue reading →
Tagged as Falsification of history, Monuments & Statues, More articles by Dougal MacDonald, Poland, Soviet Union, Soviet Union - Red Army, This day in history, Warsaw Uprising 1944, World War II
Bridge of Spies: Will the real James B. Donovan stand up?
Tom Hanks is today's Everyman good guy movie star – an honest, trustworthy and stand-up white man just like Gary Cooper, Jimmy Stewart, Gregory Peck and, yes, even John Wayne. In the recent film Bridge of Spies, one of those "inspired by true events" obfuscations, Hanks plays a certain James B. Donovan. In the movie, Donovan is an insurance lawyer lured into defending Soviet spy Rudolf Abel back in the good old days of the Cold War in order to prove that this is the land of justice and due process. Bridge of Spies, directed by Steven Spielberg, appears to be headed into Oscar territory. Continue reading →
Filed under History, United States
Tagged as Anti-Communism, CIA, Cold War, Hollywood, Nuclear, Rosenbergs, Science, Soviet Union, Subversion and Espionage, This day in history, U.S. - Atomice Energy Commission (AEC), Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
This day. Remember the Rosenbergs, murdered by the US ruling circles 63 years ago
Crimes of the Cold War | DOUGAL MACDONALD
On June 19, 1953, U.S. citizens Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed at Sing Sing Prison in New York on the false charge of conspiring to pass atomic secrets to the Soviet Union during the Second World War. The U.S. and Soviet Union were nominally allies against Nazi Germany at the time so the Rosenbergs were actually sentenced to death for passing secrets to a U.S. ally, which makes no sense. But the U.S. was a Soviet ally in name only. It is now well-known that the U.S. ruling circles, which had conspired with Nazi Germany during the war, had decided to openly betray the anti-fascist alliance before the war ended and to rebuild Germany as an anti-communist bulwark against the Soviet Union. Continue reading →
Tagged as Anti-Communism, Cold War, More articles by Dougal MacDonald, Nuclear, Rosenbergs, Science, Soviet Union, Subversion and Espionage, This day in history, U.S. - Atomice Energy Commission (AEC), U.S. - McCarthyism, Uranium, Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
Almost two thirds of the population of Russia support installation of commemorative plaques and monuments dedicated to J.V. Stalin
The All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VCIOM) last July 20 presented research data on the study of Russians' attitude toward placing memorable signs for Joseph Stalin.
Public opinion on the placement of memorable signs has been formed quite clearly today: more than half of Russians (62 per cent) agreed with the opinion that boards, busts, pictures, etc., telling about Stalin's successes, should be placed in public places. Continue reading →
Tagged as J.V. Stalin, Monuments & Statues, Russia, Soviet Union
This Day. Year of Maxim Gorky
(April 8, 2018) – Recently, Russia solemnly celebrated the 75th anniversary of the Victory in the Battle of Stalingrad. The year of the anniversary of this victory is declared the year of Solzhenitsyn. In a country where the Great Victory is celebrated, there should be no honour to a person, to the one who spat on this victory without shame. But now in power is the oligarchy, for which there is nothing sacred, except for its own profits and power. Therefore, another important anniversary fell under an unofficial ban, was in the information blockade. Continue reading →
Tagged as Alexander Solschenizyn, Arts & Culture, Books, literature, Maxim Gorky, Russia, Russia - Bolshevik Revolution, Soviet Union, This day in history
The deep history of US and Britain's never-ending Cold War on Russia
The UN War Crimes Commission has finally released files that show the Allies knew – and did – much more about the Holocaust during WWII than previously thought. Cold War politics kept the files locked away | FINIAN CUNNINGHAM*
Birkenau gate at Auschwitz
Tagged as Britain, Holocaust, IBM and the Holocaust, International Nickel Company of Canada (INCO), Nazi collaborators & sympathizers, Nazi Germany, Neo-Nazism and other practices, Nuremberg Tribunal, Soviet Union, U.S. - Allen Dulles, U.S. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, World War II
The 'Holodomor' and the film 'Bitter Harvest' are fascist lies
(Editor's note: On March 3 the film Bitter Harvest was released for audiences in Canada, having already been released in the U.S. on February 24, 2017. It is now being shown in major cities across the country in large theatres. Its Canadian premiere was February 28 at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. The film's major promoter is the Ukrainian Canadian Congress. We are reproducing an article by historian Grover Furr on the major theme of the film: falsification of history.
(Author's note: In this article I rely heavily on the evidence cited in the research of Mark Tauger of West Virginia University. Tauger has spent his professional life studying Russian and Soviet famines and agriculture. He is a world authority on these subjects, and is cordially disliked by Ukrainian nationalists and anticommunists generally because his research explodes their falsehoods.)
The Ukrainian nationalist film "Bitter Harvest" propagates lies invented by Ukrainian nationalists. In his review Louis Proyect propagates these lies.
Proyect cites Jeff Coplon's 1988 Village Voice article "In Search of a Soviet Holocaust: A 55-Year-Old Famine Feeds the Right." In it Coplon shows that the leading "mainstream" anticommunist Western experts on Soviet history rejected any notion of a deliberate famine aimed at Ukrainians. They still reject it. Proyect fails to mention this fact. Continue reading →
Filed under Canada, Europe, History, Uncategorized
Tagged as Anti-Communism, Falsification of history, Grover Furr, Holocaust, Nazi collaborators & sympathizers, Nazi Germany, Soviet Union, Ukraine - Holodomor, Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC)
Book Review – Hakim Adi, Pan-Africanism and Communism: The Communist International, Africa and Diaspora, 1919-1939
(From our archives: originally published on May 25, 2014) – This ground-breaking book, based on research undertaken in the archives of the Comintern in Moscow as well as archives in France, Britain, the US and West Africa, documents the activities of the Communist International in relation to Africa and the African diaspora. It focuses on a period when the world was in flux, with inter-imperialist rivalry at its height, when African and Caribbean countries, amongst others, were under colonial domination. Black people in Africa, the Caribbean and other western countries were officially considered inferior, had few rights and racism was at the level of open state policy from so-called "Jim Crow" laws and lynching in the US, to pass laws and segregation in South Africa and the colour bar in Britain. Continue reading →
Filed under Africa, History
Tagged as Africa, Anti-colonial, Black History, Books, Caribbean, Cominterm (Communist International), Dr Hakim Adi, Ethiopia, International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers (ITUCNW), National Liberation, Pan-Africanism, Soviet Union, U.S. - Civil Rights Movement
Dion's delusions of grandeur: Hubris about Canada's role in the imperialist system of states
To prove the importance of "responsible conviction," in his speech at the University of Ottawa on March 29 Foreign Minister Stéphane Dion presented a fairy tale of Canada as an intrepid and indispensable international actor whose "responsibility" has allowed it to change the course of history. The Harper government only had "conviction" but not "responsibility," Dion suggested, and this has blunted Canada's ability to play such a role. Continue reading →
Tagged as Canada 2020, Canadian Foreign Policy, Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS), Falsification of history, Global Affairs Canada (formerly the Department of Foreign Affairs Trade and Development - DFAIT), Ken Taylor, Mikhail Gorbachev, Minister of Foreign Affairs Stéphane Dion, Neo-liberal imperialist internationalism, Soviet Union, World War I
Do not permit the politics of the big powers to decide the fate of the world
By PAULINE EASTON
Since the Liberal Party and Justin Trudeau took over the Government of Canada following the October 19 federal election, it has become very clear that this government, like the Harper government before it, is a war government. At a time the U.S. imperialists are readjusting their policies to make sure their striving for world hegemony succeeds, once again Canada is hitching itself to the U.S. imperialist war chariot, especially the measures they are taking to control what goes on in Europe and to dominate Asia. In light of the dangerous developments which are taking place, it is important to remember that while the policies of the big powers have always played a significant role, the decisive role belongs to the working people. Continue reading →
Tagged as Anti-war movement, Geopolitics, Justin Trudeau Government, More articles by Pauline Easton, Neo-liberal imperialist internationalism, Soviet Union, United States
Remembering the Holocaust: Commemoration of those murdered by the Nazis
Top: Memorial plaque to those killed by the Nazis in Auschwitz, put in place in 1948 and removed in 1989. Bottom: Soviet Red Army liberates Auschwitz prisoners January 27, 1945.
Originally published on January 27, 2014 by TML Daily
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, the day in 1945 that Soviet troops liberated prisoners from the Nazis' Auschwitz prison camp, the peace- and justice-loving people of the world join all those whose families suffered so greatly under the Holocaust, a program of systematic state-sponsored murder by the Hitlerite Nazis and their allies, the Italian fascists and Japanese militarists. The word "Holocaust" must be understood in its broadest sense as referring to the mass murder of all those who were persecuted, imprisoned, tortured and murdered by the Nazis in Germany and the countries it occupied, especially the Jews and others targeted for extinction including the Roma and many Slavs as well as political opponents, particularly communists and resistance fighters. So too the Japanese militarists carried out the Nanjing Massacre and many other atrocities in China and throughout Southeast Asia, while to this day they owe reparations to the Koreans for the crimes committed against them. Continue reading →
Tagged as Anti-Fascist Resistance, Anti-semitism, Auschwitz, Genocide, Holocaust, Nazi Germany, Soviet Union, War Crimes, World War II
Imbue with new life the clarion call of Never Again!
Prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp are liberated by the Red Army, January 27, 1945.
BY DOUGAL MACDONALD, January 27, 204
On January 27, 1945, the advancing Soviet Red Army entered the Nazis' Auschwitz II-Birkenau extermination camp, liberating more than 7,000 prisoners, most of whom were ill or dying. The prisoners were liberated as the Red Army was inflicting one defeat after another on the German troops, driving the Hitlerites steadily backward until the final demise of the Third Reich in Berlin on May 9, 1945. Recognizing the great significance of the liberation of Auschwitz, in 2005 the United Nations General Assembly officially designated January 27 as the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the many millions of people murdered by the Nazis in their bloodthirsty quest for world domination. Continue reading →
Tagged as Auschwitz, Genocide, Holocaust, IG Farben, Nazi Germany, Soviet Union
Declassified US nuclear target list shows reckless disposition toward nuclear annihilation
The U.S. National Security Archive[1] recently released a declassified report on the U.S. Strategic Air Command (SAC) Atomic Weapons Requirements Study for 1959, produced in June 1956. The report is a telling reminder of the depths of depravity and irrationality of the U.S. imperialists, who with their doctrine Might Makes Right, are willing to annihilate humanity in the name of containing communism and establishing global hegemony, aims which they continue to pursue today. What they achieved was the imposition of their irrationality on the world, based on the assumption that everyone else surely shared their depravity. These declassified documents are a sobering reminder that it is the U.S. which is the main culprit for nuclear proliferation and the major threat to peace and humanity in the world today.
Excerpts from the National Security Archive's Electronic Briefing Book No. 538 on the SAC report are posted below. Continue reading →
Tagged as Cold War, National Security Archive, Nuclear, Soviet Union, U.S. Strategic Air Command (SAC), U.S. Strategy, Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
Sighting. Posters from the Great Patriotic War
Stalin's Spirit, Sound and Strong, Our Army and Our Country! (1939)
Filed under Europe, Sighting
Tagged as Nazi Germany, Sighting, Soviet Union, World War II
TML publishes special online supplement 'The 70th Anniversary of the Defeat of Fascism in Europe'
8 May marked the 70th anniversary of the surrender of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich in Berlin in 1945 and the defeat of Nazi Germany in Europe – a date recognized throughout the world with the photograph of the flag of the Soviet Red Army flying over the Reichstag, the German Parliament. To this day, that flag is recognized as the Victory Banner. It is called Victory in Europe Day and other countries of the former Soviet Union where it marks the victory of the Great Patriotic War. It marked the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, as well as the founding of the United Nations.
More than 80 countries and regions and about two billion people in Asia, Europe, Africa and Oceania were engulfed in the flames of war and suffered grave disasters. The defeat of fascism in Europe was a historic event with a permanent significance not only for the Soviet Union and Europe but for all peoples, who made the greatest contribution to its defeat. Imperialists and fascists can be stopped; their weapons can be silenced; freedom, liberation and the very right-to-be can be won.
Activities to commemorate the occasion were held in major Canadian cities including parades of World War II veterans from the former USSR together with the veterans from Allied countries, meetings, banquets, and presentations. As part of the international commemorations, the editors of TML Weekly published an informative special online supplement on the significance of the victory of the peoples of the world and related events. As one commentary underlines gravely: "To forget the past means to betray; to tamper with history means the start of following the same disastrous road." Continue reading →
Filed under Eurasia, Europe, No Harbour for War (Halifax)
Tagged as Anti-Fascist Resistance, Geopolitics, J.V. Stalin, Nazi Germany, Soviet Union, U.S. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, World War II
May 9, 2015 · 10:53 am
From our archives: Dossier on the 60th anniversary of the victory over fascism
Shunpiking Magazine's Online Dossier, May-June 2005
May 8, 2005 marked the 60th anniversary of the surrender of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich in 1945 and the defeat of Nazi Germany in Europe. Called Victory in Europe Day (V-E Day) in the English-speaking countries, it is celebrated on May 9 in Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union where it marks the victory of the Great Patriotic War. The defeat of fascism in Europe was a historic event with a permanent significance not only for Europe but for all peoples, who made the greatest contribution to its defeat. Imperialists can be stopped and their weapons silenced.
With this Dossier we want to give our readers a vivid idea of how war may and will creep up on them if it is not opposed. We want to try and discover the real political and economic origins and causes of WWII and its conduct, length and end, the war aims of the different parties, and show how war can be hatched in the greatest secrecy. How was the fate of the peoples of Europe sealed? How was fascism defeated? This has special urgency in our own day, when the imperial Washington of George W. Bush has taken on the task of declaring itself above international law and the Charter of the United Nations. Continue reading →
Filed under Europe, History, No Harbour for War (Halifax)
Tagged as Auschwitz, Britain, Canada - W.L. Mackenzie King, CIA, Hardial Bains, Holocaust, IBM and the Holocaust, International Nickel Company of Canada (INCO), J.V. Stalin, Nazi collaborators & sympathizers, Nazi Germany, Nuremberg Tribunal, Shunpiking Magazine, Soviet Union, U.S. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Vichy France, Winston Churchill, World War II
Krupp and GE: The conspiracy trial of 1947
INTRODUCTION: Imagine a film about the Holocaust that makes no mention of the forces that built the concentration camps or established Hitlerite Germany. Imagine living in a country 70 years later where these same forces are celebrated as "good corporate citizens" – honoured for "creating jobs?" Then imagine that the US, Canada and Ukraine are the only three countries voting against the annual United Nations anti-Nazi resolution in November 2014. Continue reading →
Tagged as Books, cartel, Charles Bohlen, Defence Minister Peter MacKay, General Electric, Holocaust, IG Farben, John J. McCloy, Journalism & Independent Media, Labour history, Nazi Germany, Nuremberg Tribunal, Siemens, Soviet Union, Thyssen Krupp, U.S. - Atomice Energy Commission (AEC), United Electrical Workers Union (UE), War Crimes, World War II
How the CIA recruited students in the 1950s & 1960s
In the 1960s, the agency sought to fight Communism and the people's movements for rights through subversion of the youth and student movement. There's little reason to think its tactics have changed. An inadvertent confession | TOM HAYDEN
Nation (Dec. 2) – Only once in a while does a book come along that sheds new light on the 1960s. Karen Paget's forthcoming Patriotic Betrayal (Yale University Press) is just such a work, telling the inside story of how the Central Intelligence Agency corrupted the natural and democratic growth of students' rights movement by infiltrating the National Student Association (NSA) and directing it to its Cold War ends.
Filed under Europe, History, United States
Tagged as CIA, Communism, Cuba - "dissidents" and subversion, Iraq, Nelson Mandela, New Left, Soviet Union, Students, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Subversion and Espionage, Tom Hayden, US - National Students' Association (NSA), Women
Historical account of start of World War II
The Foe Won't Escape the People's Vengeance! Isaak Rabichev, 1941 (Click to enlarge)
By MICHAEL SAYERS and ALBERT E. KAHN
Extract from Chapter 22 of The Great Conspiracy by Michael Sayers and Albert E. Kahn, entitled "The Second World War." Continue reading →
Tagged as Fifth Column, Finland, History, J.V. Stalin, Nazi Germany, Russo-Finnish War, Soviet Union, This day in history, U.S. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Vichy France, Winston Churchill, World War II
75 years ago: Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland
On Important Questions of War and Peace
Pictured here in 1944 are Polish partisans, members of the Polish People's Army (Armia Ludowa), who bravely and with great sacrifice fought together with the Soviet Army to liberate their country and defeat Nazi fascism in Europe | Polish Army Museum in Warsaw (Click to enlarge)
TML Weekly (Aug. 30) – At 4:15 am on September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland in a massive assault. Hitler's Wehrmacht of 1,850,000 troops, 3,200 tanks, 2,000 combat aircraft and 11 warships – over two-thirds of Germany's entire combat force – destroyed the Polish state and massacred the Polish people.[1] Continue reading →
Tagged as Crimes Against Humanity, Falsification of history, History, More articles by Dougal MacDonald, Nazi Germany, Nazis, Poland, Soviet Union, This day in history, World War II
Ukraine: What is the trouble and who are the troublemakers?
By NATHAN J FREEMAN
TML Daily (March 21) – THE cunning of history has positioned Ukraine as the latest country in which post-Soviet Russia and U.S.-led imperialism confront each other. The U.S.-led camp, which includes the old European colonialism, is on a rampage. The Russian government has responded in a measured way, securing its naval assets in the Crimea and going so far as to take Crimea out of the clutches of the fascist coup that seized power in Kiev while putting the elected president, Alexander Yanukovych, to flight.
Students in Khrakov, Ukraine, lay flowers at monument to Second World War partisan fighters and the Soviet Red Army | Jaroslav the Wise National Law University
Beyond and underlying the intermonopoly contradictions (mainly over energy resources access and control[1]) that are at odds and in play at this time in that region, the longest-standing and most burning issue for the peoples of this region has surfaced once again: how can the equality and sovereign rights of nations and peoples, irrespective of their ethnic makeup, be established (and in some respects re-established) with a guarantee that is meaningful under current conditions? Continue reading →
Tagged as Bolshevik Revolution, Crimean War, Energy, Nathan J. Freeman, Poland, Russia, Serfdom, Slavery, Soviet Union, Ukraine, US Empire
The Ukraine crisis – It's the Intermarium plan again
The garbled slogans and ravings of the Ukrainian nationalists are straight from the Intermarium playbook | Dr JONATHAN LEVY*
Although Inermarium is an old concept, its modern significance is shown by the map, which was published by Stratfor, the corporate intelligence firm linked to the CIA, in 2015. It which views Turkey as the southern anchor of the Intermarium, a network of allies including Lithuania, Poland, Ukrain and Romania that occupy Russia's European rim and have a collective interest in working with the US-NATO bloc to pressure Russia.–TS
(March 1) – Political scientists attribute the Ukraine crisis to competition between Russia and the West or East Ukraine versus West Ukraine. While these simple explanations have their merits, there is much more at stake; nothing less the long planned absorption of Ukraine into the Intermarium and the break-up of Russia into toothless mini states. Continue reading →
Tagged as Croatia, Geopolitics, Intermarium, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Promethean League, Roman Catholic Church, Romania, Soviet Union, Turkey, Ukraine, Ukraine - 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician)
This day in 1924: 90th anniversary of the death of V.I. Lenin
As long as the struggle to create a new society exists, the name and work of V.I. Lenin will have a place of honour
V.I. LENIN, a revolutionary and the greatest Marxist theoretician of the twentieth century, died 90 years ago on January 21, 1924, when a bullet, lodged in his neck by an opportunist when he was only 54, deprived him of the opportunity to complete his work. Even though he died during the very early stages of socialist revolution and construction, he had nonetheless accomplished great feats: he had established the state of the workers and peasants in Russia, as well as laid down the ideological and organizational lines for the development of the revolution and socialism. Continue reading →
Filed under History, Working Class
Tagged as Bolshevik Revolution, Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist), Marxism–Leninism, Soviet Union, V.I. Lenin
Graphic details. US State Department's imperialist geography
MARGARET (PEGGY) DOREEN SEED
Jack Alfred Seed, QC BA
Halifax May Day 2015: 'Who decides? We decide' remains the order of the day
This Day. A reflection on Amílcar Cabral, Portugal and NATO
Hardial Bains – A Man of Revolutionary Action