I couldn't tell if you agreed or were being sarcistic Kev, so I felt motivated to reply. . .My God, I believe this is my first real post here in like six months or something
Communism is like a virus, according to Marx it is the inevitable conclusion of all democratic and republican countries (
"What the bourgeoisie therefore produce, above all, is its own gave diggers. Its fall and the victory of the Proletariat are equally inevitable",
the Communist Manifesto), according to Lenin it is a philosophy which must eclipse any extant government for the good of all men (
"The capitalists will supply us with the materials and the technology which we lack. They will restore our defense industry, which we need for our future victorious attacks upon our suppliers." V.I.Lenin, 1921). These are tenants which were espoused by the Soviet Union until its dying day (
"The leading and guiding force of Soviet Society . . . is the Communist Party of the Soviet Union [which is] armed with Marxism-Leninism and imparts a planned systematic and theoretically substantiated character to their struggle for the victory of Communism." Article 6 of the constitution of the USSR adopted October 1977 ).Unlike any other polity which seeks only to care after its governed, communism is imperialistic in narure -And it is that nature which prompted Germany animosity during World War 2, and the cold war waged by our own country. Roosevelt wanted to involve himself in the war as early as 1938 when Czechoslovakia fell to Germany, but there was no public support. None, and for good reason. Germany was never a threat to us. Herr Hitler actually found himself in open admiration of the US, both as a political and economic institution which prompted him to emplace National Socialism, not to be confused with communism or modern socialism, seeing that the real enemy to any peaceful country's existance would be communist imperialism.
This is not a defense of Hitler, I'm ommitting quite a bit purposely, however it is important to note that while Germans and Americans looked upon Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili's (Stalin's real name, for those who don't know it) manner of leadership with open disgust and contempt, Roosevelt never did. Despite the overwhelming evidence presented to him. We all remember the show trials right? There were four key trials from 1936 to 1938, The Trial of the Sixteen was the first (December 1936); then the Trial of the Seventeen (January 1937); then the trial of Red Army generals, including Marshal Tukhachevsky (June 1937); and finally the Trial of the Twenty One (including Bukharin) in March 1938. But his barbarism didn't stop there, even after his power base was ensured, he went on to order assassination of Trotsky in Mexico, 1940 -Trotsky having been a severe impediment against his rise to power years before.
What he did to his own populace was worse - terrorizing large segments of the Soviet population, such as the Kulaks, and orchestrating massive famines in the places such as Ukraine whereby an estimated 5 million people died - yet ever to Mr Roosevelt would he be considered "Uncle Joe." I won't mention Roosevelt's socialist policies enacted domestically, as we have laboured over those points in the past, and I'm sure OAO could contribute them as readily as a I, but if this doesn't qualify Franklin Delano as a socialist sycophant, I don't know what does
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