If we do not
remember and respect past people and events, good or bad, we are bound to
repeat disastrous mistakes. There are so many lessons to be learned from
history! But we will not learn if we ban books, monuments, destroy buildings, archeological
evidence, flags, statues, tombs, memorabilia, and factual evidence of humanity’s
past existence.
Take for
example, the millions of farmers, peasants, and workers who met their end under
Stalin’s rule. The youth of today seem to idolize the system of abject fear and
communist enslavement he established for millions of his own people. He
terrorized countless innocents who refused to submit to his communist oppression
or dared to criticize him; he eventually used mass terror against his own party
members.
Stalin
eliminated those he considered rivals to power by using “the organized terror
of the dictatorship of the proletariat.” One such victim was Sergei M. Kirov,
assassinated under mysterious circumstances. A member of the Politburo, Kirov
was a direct threat to Stalin’s leadership. Kirov had been a friend of the
exiled Leon Trotsky.
There were
three distinct waves of his terror prior to WWII. The Communist Party forced a
campaign in 1935 to “screen out undesirable elements and ‘enemies of the
party.’”
1. The communist purges continued in
1936 with the “show trials.” A feature of the communist “justice,” the
guilt of the accused was predetermined, and the courtroom drama served only as
a medium to communicate a propaganda message” for the gullible and fearful
public. The accused were forced to sign fake confessions, then were sentenced
to death based on these forced confessions and shot immediately. A few received
life prison sentences in Siberian gulags. Most of the condemned died eventually
in these gulags from poor nutrition, exposure to the elements, torture, and severe
work conditions.
2. In 1937 came the liquidation of the
“enemies of the state” in the Soviet Army, Navy, and Air Force. The manufactured
excuse was that they had spied for Germany and Japan. As a result of this
purge, most of the Soviet marshals, generals, and colonels, and 30,000 lower
rank officers had been killed. The military purge was murder of innocents but
also ill-advised a year before the start of World War II.
3. The third “show trial” occurred in March
1938 in which the head of the secret police, Genrikh Yagoda, along with other
20 defendants, who produced the “confessions of the first show trials, were
also accused as “enemies of the state.”
Stalin had
executed the “11 men of October” who helped the Bolsheviks seize power in 1917.
Stalin also killed all his former associates who had been members of Lenin’s
Politburo. The only person who escaped his murderous rampage was Trotsky
because he was in exile.
A few victims
received public hearings, but most were executed summarily without trial, just based
on having been questioned by the secret police.
Stalin stood
unchallenged because he had consolidated the dictatorship of the proletariat. He
assumed the power of the Central Committee and had absolute control of the
organization that had absolute control of the Soviet Union. There was no
opposition left, he killed them all, and hired only people who were intimidated
into submission subordinates. One such subordinate was Nikita S. Khrushchev,
who managed the purge in Ukraine.
J. Edgar
Hoover wrote that “once the Communist party, itself a minority dictatorship,
had taken control of the government, there was no problem in justifying its
minority dictatorship over the state.”
After the
successful October 1917 Revolution, the Russian Communists began the
preparation of an international revolution which was meant to establish “a
single world society.” That idea is heavily promoted around the globe today
under the United Nation’s one world government.
The Soviet
government even appropriated 2 million rubles “for the needs of the
revolutionary internationalist movement.” The organization tasked with imposing
communism on the entire world was the Communist International, or Comintern,
conceived by Vladimir I. Lenin. He believed that Soviet communism would not
succeed if he failed in initiating communism in Western Europe.
Documents
show that a Soviet courier was arrested in 1920 in Berlin, carrying a message to
the communists in the United States.
As luck
would have it, the Americans did not wait very long to start their own
Bolshevik/Marxist movement in September 1919 in Chicago, Illinois, of all
places. They organized not one but two communist parties – the Communist Labor
Party (formed by native-born Americans) and the Communist Party of America (formed
by foreign-born residents). The two parties did not unite because the Russian
members were against the Communist Labor Party. They eventually united in 1921 after
the intervention of the Comintern. But the idea of American
exceptionalism promoted by the Communist Labor Party was always a thorn in the
side of the Communist International.
Fast forward
a century later in the United States and Lenin’s goal to success is closer than
ever, thanks to American academia, the mainstream media, corrupt politicians
drunk on power and wealth, and the public-school indoctrination by Marxist
teachers and administrators, themselves propagandized in U.S. universities that
were seeded with Marxism by German emigrees from the Frankfurter Schule who
taught in teacher colleges in New York and around the country. And the communist
propaganda continues today thanks to Colleges of Education around the country,
churning out Marxist teachers and administrators.
The purging
of history, of historical figures, of monuments, names, graves, and other
memorabilia has accelerated to the point that even a monument from Arlington
National Cemetery, dedicated to Civil War reconciliation, will be destroyed on
Monday, July 24, 2023. The memorial plaque from Washington & Lee University,
mentioning Traveller, Gen. Robert E. Lee’s famous and beloved horse, has been
removed. Grave
of Robert E. Lee's Horse Desecrated, Plaque to Beloved Traveller Removed - His
Glory.Me
Peter
Westbrook wisely said, “So much of our future [depends] on preserving our
past.” We should heed his advice.
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