While the world remembers the Jewish Holocaust, it has almost totally forgotten the other Holocausts --- because of a concerted effort by zionists. some don't forget.
On Sunday, January 31, 2016 at 7:45:17 AM UTC-6, MJ wrote: > > > January 29, 2016 > > *Remember Stalin as Well as Hitler *By Eric Margolis > > “When I’ve finished occupying the Soviet Union,” quipped a relaxed Adolf > Hitler at dinner one night in 1941, “I’ll put that man Stalin back in > charge. He’s the only person who knows how to deal with Russians.” > > Stalin was the biggest murderer of modern history – and maybe in of all > mankind’s past. His number of victims was only rivaled by Genghis Khan and, > in our era, Mao Zedong. > > Which bring me to the current observations of the 71st anniversary of the > liberation of the concentration camp Auschwitz. Our media is full of > stories about the persecution and mass killings of Europe’s Jews in the > 1930’s and 1940’s. > > And rightly so. This major historic crime must be vividly remembered and > never allowed to slip into oblivion. But neither should it be used and > reused to justify or excuse today’s repression of 5 million Palestinians. > > While the world remembers the Jewish Holocaust, it has almost totally > forgotten the other Holocausts. Amid all the references to Nazi death > camps, like Auschwitz, Sobibor, and Treblinka, there was not a mention of > Magadan, Vorkuta Norilsk, or Perm, all infamous ‘islands’ of the Soviet > system of industrial murder, known as “the Gulag.” > > Or of the Ukrainian Holodomor. > > From 1918 to the late 1950’s (Stalin died in 1953), an estimated 20 > million or more Soviet citizens were worked to death, shot or starved in > the 500 camps that made up the Gulag. The most infamous and lethal were in > the Arctic Circle and eastern Siberia. > > The greatest number of deaths occurred in the 1930’s when Stalin’s reign > of terror was at its apogee. By the end of the 1930’s, the Gulag held close > to 2 million inmates, about half political prisoners convicted on false > charges. Millions of other Soviet citizens were starved in local prisons, > shot in execution grounds or forests, and worked to death buildings canals > and rail lines or forced to mine with heir bare hands. > > During 1932-33, Stalin sent chief henchman Lazar Kaganovitch to break > resistance by Ukrainian independent small farmers to collectivization by > starving them to death. In only a few years, some 6-7 million Ukrainians > perished in what they call the Holodomor. No one was ever punished for this > historic crime. Stalin told Churchill, “Kaganovitch is my Himmler.” > > The Soviet Baltic states saw particularly ferocious repression. So did > Poland which was divvied up by both Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Soviet > Union. Six million Poles died, half of them Jews. At least 2 million > Muslims of the Soviet Union were murdered, either by shooting or, like the > Chechen, packed into cattle cars and dumped on the ground in frigid > Kazakhstan. > > Stalin was given the sobriquet, “Destroyer of Nations.” > > No one knows the exact figure of deaths in the Soviet Union. But it far > exceeded in numbers and scope Hitler’s killings. Yet these epic Soviet > crimes have all but vanished from our collective memories. No should have > a monopoly on suffering. > > Almost equally disturbing, the US, Canada and Britain have never squarely > faced the ugly fact that their close wartime ally, Stalin, was a far worse > mass murderer than enemy Adolf Hitler. Or that Stalin’s biggest crime > occurred in the 1930’s while Hitler’s were not fully understood until after > World War II. Stalin’s terrible crimes were well known to Washington, > Ottawa and London well before they got into bed with “Uncle Joe” Stalin. We > allied with a great devil to fight a lesser one. This fact is rarely > understood because our sense of World War II history remains heavily > clouded by the propaganda of he victors. > > Ever since, Hitler has been relentlessly demonized while Stalin has faded > from our understanding. Germans still recoil at the mention of Hitler while > in Russia nostalgia grows for Stalin and his era. Much of the evidence of > Stalin’s crimes has turned to dust; none of the perpetrators were ever > punished. After briefly seeing the light of day during the Gorbachev era, > the Stalin-era files have been resealed. > > www.ericmargolis.com > -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
