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	<title>Comments on: Oliver Stone’s Cold War Melodrama</title>
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		<title>By: Fritz</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/bruce-thornton/oliver-stones-cold-war-melodrama/comment-page-1/#comment-4121409</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fritz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 03:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[But does Oliver Stone really have the ear of young people? A documentary series on a cable network like Showtime has a far narrower reach then one on even PBS or A&amp;E would have. Stone is also a bit of a has been director, what was his last big budget picture, &quot;Natural Born Killers&quot;? The young and impressionable are much more likely to pay attention to Micheal Moore, even though he is a buffoon, or a moron like Matt Damon, then Oliver Stone just because of the generation gap. Oliver Stone is like Don Bluth or John Carpenter, a movie maker of the 80s, but unlike most 80&#039;s movie makers his subject of choice was the 1960s, particularly the Vietnam era. Even in the 80&#039;s Stone&#039;s films were incoherent crap mostly relying on nostalgic boomers to fill the audience. Martin Scorsese has much more of a following among younger film buffs, even though he of around the same age as Stone, simply because he has a talent for making good films, something that eludes Stone. Martin Scorsese pictures are also replayed on TV, and frequently, I can&#039;t think of a single film from Oliver Stone that has aired in the past year in my region. The fact that Stone has been demoted to making crap propaganda show on a cable channel does not surprise me, after the flop of Natural Born Killers no sensible studio would trust this blowhard with a $100 million dollar production budget. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>But does Oliver Stone really have the ear of young people? A documentary series on a cable network like Showtime has a far narrower reach then one on even PBS or A&amp;E would have. Stone is also a bit of a has been director, what was his last big budget picture, &quot;Natural Born Killers&quot;? The young and impressionable are much more likely to pay attention to Micheal Moore, even though he is a buffoon, or a moron like Matt Damon, then Oliver Stone just because of the generation gap. Oliver Stone is like Don Bluth or John Carpenter, a movie maker of the 80s, but unlike most 80&#039;s movie makers his subject of choice was the 1960s, particularly the Vietnam era. Even in the 80&#039;s Stone&#039;s films were incoherent crap mostly relying on nostalgic boomers to fill the audience. Martin Scorsese has much more of a following among younger film buffs, even though he of around the same age as Stone, simply because he has a talent for making good films, something that eludes Stone. Martin Scorsese pictures are also replayed on TV, and frequently, I can&#039;t think of a single film from Oliver Stone that has aired in the past year in my region. The fact that Stone has been demoted to making crap propaganda show on a cable channel does not surprise me, after the flop of Natural Born Killers no sensible studio would trust this blowhard with a $100 million dollar production budget. </p>
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		<title>By: Rifleman</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rifleman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 02:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#039;d have to add, stalin&#039;s orders trapped and destroyed soviet army after army until stalingrad, and the soviets would send unarmed undesirables and conscripts to burn up German MG barrels and ammo, running up their own casualties.  The jihadis also always add the &#039;friendlies&#039; they kill to the enemy&#039;s total, not their own. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#039;d have to add, stalin&#039;s orders trapped and destroyed soviet army after army until stalingrad, and the soviets would send unarmed undesirables and conscripts to burn up German MG barrels and ammo, running up their own casualties.  The jihadis also always add the &#039;friendlies&#039; they kill to the enemy&#039;s total, not their own. </p>
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		<title>By: Rifleman</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/bruce-thornton/oliver-stones-cold-war-melodrama/comment-page-1/#comment-4121174</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rifleman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 01:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We provided a lot of food, medicine, arty, C-37s, P-39s, P-40s, P-47s, trucks, radios, and megatons of material.    The US and Great Britain did,&#039;t just spread out and occupy hitler&#039;s forces, we chewed them up and drove them back though we had to cross oceans to get there.   
 
I&#039;d be insulting family, countrymen, and allies to fail to note that the US forces tasked with enough resources to hold the Empire of Japan at bay while we went after hitler first, had backed the Emperor&#039;s human bullets back to the Japanese home islands by the time hilter surrendered. 
 
There aren&#039;t a lot of aviation nuts that know the Mig-15 used a knockoff of  a Rolls-Royce Nene sent to stalin by the British, so who else would know stuff like that?   They aren&#039;t likely to learn it in schools influenced by people like bill ayers, or watching stone&#039;s movies. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We provided a lot of food, medicine, arty, C-37s, P-39s, P-40s, P-47s, trucks, radios, and megatons of material.    The US and Great Britain did,&#039;t just spread out and occupy hitler&#039;s forces, we chewed them up and drove them back though we had to cross oceans to get there.   </p>
<p>I&#039;d be insulting family, countrymen, and allies to fail to note that the US forces tasked with enough resources to hold the Empire of Japan at bay while we went after hitler first, had backed the Emperor&#039;s human bullets back to the Japanese home islands by the time hilter surrendered. </p>
<p>There aren&#039;t a lot of aviation nuts that know the Mig-15 used a knockoff of  a Rolls-Royce Nene sent to stalin by the British, so who else would know stuff like that?   They aren&#039;t likely to learn it in schools influenced by people like bill ayers, or watching stone&#039;s movies. </p>
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		<title>By: Rifleman</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/bruce-thornton/oliver-stones-cold-war-melodrama/comment-page-1/#comment-4121070</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rifleman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 01:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That IS interesting, thanks.   I&#039;d have to say stalin sidelined that with his megalomania (like a lot of socialist dictators have since), until hitler proved far beyond his absolute power to deny. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That IS interesting, thanks.   I&#039;d have to say stalin sidelined that with his megalomania (like a lot of socialist dictators have since), until hitler proved far beyond his absolute power to deny. </p>
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		<title>By: reader</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[reader]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#039;t accept 27 million. Soviet military counted RKKA casualties as no more than 11 million, including POWs. 5-6 million civilians perished under the Nazi occupation. Near 1 million civilians perished during the siege of Leningrad and in the rubble of Stalingrad. The rest were added to cover up for Stalin&#039;s purges.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Don&#8217;t accept 27 million. Soviet military counted RKKA casualties as no more than 11 million, including POWs. 5-6 million civilians perished under the Nazi occupation. Near 1 million civilians perished during the siege of Leningrad and in the rubble of Stalingrad. The rest were added to cover up for Stalin&#8217;s purges.</p>
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		<title>By: proxywar</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[proxywar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You should turn this series into a book rebutting stone.  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You should turn this series into a book rebutting stone.  </p>
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		<title>By: Ghostwriter</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ghostwriter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I agree with Mr. Thornton. Americans had every right to be afraid of the Soviet Union,especially because of the large amount of dead thanks to Stalin&#039;s purges. A lot of people from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe fled to America and told horrifying stories of what happened there. It wasn&#039;t as though this came out of nowhere. This may not have always been handled well,but the U.S. and it&#039;s allies had every right to fight against the Soviet Union during the Cold War. I&#039;m glad that that nightmare called the Soviet Union is long gone and I hope it doesn&#039;t get resurrected. 
 ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree with Mr. Thornton. Americans had every right to be afraid of the Soviet Union,especially because of the large amount of dead thanks to Stalin&#039;s purges. A lot of people from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe fled to America and told horrifying stories of what happened there. It wasn&#039;t as though this came out of nowhere. This may not have always been handled well,but the U.S. and it&#039;s allies had every right to fight against the Soviet Union during the Cold War. I&#039;m glad that that nightmare called the Soviet Union is long gone and I hope it doesn&#039;t get resurrected. </p>
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		<title>By: tagalog</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[tagalog]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Soviet Union experienced a lot of dead (personally, I accept the 27 million dead from the war as accurate, but reasonable people could argue; after all, the Soviets suppressed the figures for fifty years after the war), and it&#039;s because Stalin and his pack of thugs wanted it that way.  They played ball with Hitler for nearly two years, cozying up to him for the sake of getting the Baltic States and half of Poland, while Hitler took continental Europe and North Africa, thus making the Third Reich extremely resistant to Western attack, and permitting him to slaughter Soviets on a much greater scale than he might have if there had been no Ribbentrop-Molotov Non-Aggression Pact. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Soviet Union experienced a lot of dead (personally, I accept the 27 million dead from the war as accurate, but reasonable people could argue; after all, the Soviets suppressed the figures for fifty years after the war), and it&#039;s because Stalin and his pack of thugs wanted it that way.  They played ball with Hitler for nearly two years, cozying up to him for the sake of getting the Baltic States and half of Poland, while Hitler took continental Europe and North Africa, thus making the Third Reich extremely resistant to Western attack, and permitting him to slaughter Soviets on a much greater scale than he might have if there had been no Ribbentrop-Molotov Non-Aggression Pact. </p>
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		<title>By: tagalog</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[tagalog]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the portion of the show that&#039;s discussed in this commentary actually says what the commentary says, I think Mr. Stone is ignoring a hell of a lot of history.  Like the refusal to retreat from Poland and the Baltic states, Potsdam, the Soviet expansion into Hungary, the bickering debate over Berlin being administered by the 4 Powers, the division of Germany into East and West, and so on. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If the portion of the show that&#039;s discussed in this commentary actually says what the commentary says, I think Mr. Stone is ignoring a hell of a lot of history.  Like the refusal to retreat from Poland and the Baltic states, Potsdam, the Soviet expansion into Hungary, the bickering debate over Berlin being administered by the 4 Powers, the division of Germany into East and West, and so on. </p>
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		<title>By: Mary Sue</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mary Sue]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:40:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[finally?  Where&#039;ve you been, he&#039;s been brain dead a long time! ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>finally?  Where&#039;ve you been, he&#039;s been brain dead a long time! </p>
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		<title>By: reader</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[reader]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The bigest problem with your post that it is too long and, hence, it&#039;s hard to understand what the point is.  There are a few more: 
&quot;The Soviet Union lost around 27 million people during the war, almost half of all World War II deaths.&quot; 
This number is fabricated - exaggerated by about 10 million - to write off the victims of Communist purges.   
&quot;Khrushchev had experienced the brutality and death of WWII firsthand in Stalingrad. He knew how devastating war would be especially with the use of atomic and then thermonuclear weapons.&quot; 
So how does that excuse the Carribean Crisis generated exclusively by Khrushchev? 
&quot;aiding sympathetic countries, and financing and arming Cuba as a thorn in our side just 90 miles off of Florida.&quot; 
He didn&#039;t arm Cuba. He deployed Soviet nuclear missiles and personnel on Cuba. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The bigest problem with your post that it is too long and, hence, it&#039;s hard to understand what the point is.  There are a few more:<br />
&quot;The Soviet Union lost around 27 million people during the war, almost half of all World War II deaths.&quot;<br />
This number is fabricated &#8211; exaggerated by about 10 million &#8211; to write off the victims of Communist purges.<br />
&quot;Khrushchev had experienced the brutality and death of WWII firsthand in Stalingrad. He knew how devastating war would be especially with the use of atomic and then thermonuclear weapons.&quot;<br />
So how does that excuse the Carribean Crisis generated exclusively by Khrushchev?<br />
&quot;aiding sympathetic countries, and financing and arming Cuba as a thorn in our side just 90 miles off of Florida.&quot;<br />
He didn&#039;t arm Cuba. He deployed Soviet nuclear missiles and personnel on Cuba. </p>
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		<title>By: @nolarobert</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[@nolarobert]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:23:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The problem here is about balance. As a Historian we were taught to research an event or series of events that occurred in the past and understand them based on the context of the times, the intent of the actors and the consequences of their actions. There are many on the Left and on the Right who use a specific revision of history to promote their political agenda. For those on the Left who dislike nuclear weapons the &quot;narrative&quot; for Truman&#039;s decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan was a war crime for various reasons offered, i.e., Japan was already beaten and was ready to surrender, the bombs were used to intimidate the Soviets, and so on. For those on the Right they see the excesses of the Red Scare and McCarthyism as being wholly justified by the inflated threat of Soviet world domination. Thorton quotes from Soviet sources to promote this view that the Soviets intended to destroy America and the West therefore justifying our actions in the name of anti-Communism. The issue I take with both sides here is that they both ignore the context of the time these events occurred. Truman was making his decision to use the atomic bomb after a series of very brutal, bloody and deadly island invasions and battles culminating with Iwo Jima and Okinawa. From his POV Truman and his advisers believed that an invasion of the home islands of Japan would come at a very high cost in KIA, WIA and that the American people were ready for the war to be over. Truman&#039;s Intention makes sense in this context. The Consequence of the decision to use the atomic bomb was a war that ended far sooner than anticipated and without a costly invasion that would have killed a lot of American and Japanese troops and an untold number of civilian casualties. When you look at the behavior of the USSR after WWII you have to understand the context of the actions made by Stalin. The USSR had borne the brunt of the fighting against German. The Soviet Union lost around 27 million people during the war, almost half of all World War II deaths. One of every four Soviet citizens was killed or wounded in that war. Russia and the surrounding countries were attacked with a scorched earth policy practiced by the Germans as they later withdrew. Stalin was a paranoid, mentally ill man who felt threatened by the Western powers, especially by the US. Thankfully he died before a war between East and West could be triggered. Khrushchev had experienced the brutality and death of WWII firsthand in Stalingrad. He knew how devastating war would be especially with the use of atomic and then thermonuclear weapons. His main goal was to control the Soviet&#039;s sphere of influence and to battle the West via propaganda, aiding sympathetic countries, and financing and arming Cuba as a thorn in our side just 90 miles off of Florida. He saw the USSR ringed by the US and our allies with nuclear armed missiles, nuclear armed bombers and nuclear armed submarines. Given the Russians&#039; previous experiences with being invaded the context of this paranoia made sense. The Intention of the Soviets were to remain in power and to control their hegemony and not show weakness to the West. The Consequences were a long, costly and often deadly Cold War with brush fire wars waged around the world in the name of ideology. So the Left shouldn&#039;t portray the Cold War as the US acting as an Imperialist nation intent on empire against an innocent and trustworthy former ally in the Soviets who just wanted peace. Just as the Right needs to acknowledge that the Cold War wasn&#039;t a black/white confrontation between good and evil justifying the plethora of unethical, illegal actions taken by our government at home and abroad that suppressed and oppressed people in the name of fighting Communism. The extremes of Left and Right are both afraid of the truth of history because it doesn&#039;t fit neatly into either side&#039;s cookie cutter worldview and belief system. History doesn&#039;t care what you believe should have happened in the past, it is only concerned with what did happen and to understand those events in the context of the time they occurred. Anything else is not history but revisionist political propaganda aimed at swaying the masses into supporting your belief system. In his BBC television series, &quot;The Ascent of Man,&quot; Jacob Bronowski stood at the site of the crematorium at Auschwitz and reflected: &quot;Into this pond were flushed the ashes of some four million people.  And that was done not by gas.  It was done by arrogance.  It was done by dogma.  It was done by ignorance.  When people believe that they have absolute knowledge, with no test in reality, this is how they behave.&quot; This is why understanding history is so vital to our current political, social and economic situation. History can be a guide on how to make better decisions and to improve our world rather than constantly ignoring history to repeat the patterns of mistakes and failures from our past.  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The problem here is about balance. As a Historian we were taught to research an event or series of events that occurred in the past and understand them based on the context of the times, the intent of the actors and the consequences of their actions. There are many on the Left and on the Right who use a specific revision of history to promote their political agenda. For those on the Left who dislike nuclear weapons the &quot;narrative&quot; for Truman&#039;s decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan was a war crime for various reasons offered, i.e., Japan was already beaten and was ready to surrender, the bombs were used to intimidate the Soviets, and so on. For those on the Right they see the excesses of the Red Scare and McCarthyism as being wholly justified by the inflated threat of Soviet world domination. Thorton quotes from Soviet sources to promote this view that the Soviets intended to destroy America and the West therefore justifying our actions in the name of anti-Communism. The issue I take with both sides here is that they both ignore the context of the time these events occurred. Truman was making his decision to use the atomic bomb after a series of very brutal, bloody and deadly island invasions and battles culminating with Iwo Jima and Okinawa. From his POV Truman and his advisers believed that an invasion of the home islands of Japan would come at a very high cost in KIA, WIA and that the American people were ready for the war to be over. Truman&#039;s Intention makes sense in this context. The Consequence of the decision to use the atomic bomb was a war that ended far sooner than anticipated and without a costly invasion that would have killed a lot of American and Japanese troops and an untold number of civilian casualties. When you look at the behavior of the USSR after WWII you have to understand the context of the actions made by Stalin. The USSR had borne the brunt of the fighting against German. The Soviet Union lost around 27 million people during the war, almost half of all World War II deaths. One of every four Soviet citizens was killed or wounded in that war. Russia and the surrounding countries were attacked with a scorched earth policy practiced by the Germans as they later withdrew. Stalin was a paranoid, mentally ill man who felt threatened by the Western powers, especially by the US. Thankfully he died before a war between East and West could be triggered. Khrushchev had experienced the brutality and death of WWII firsthand in Stalingrad. He knew how devastating war would be especially with the use of atomic and then thermonuclear weapons. His main goal was to control the Soviet&#039;s sphere of influence and to battle the West via propaganda, aiding sympathetic countries, and financing and arming Cuba as a thorn in our side just 90 miles off of Florida. He saw the USSR ringed by the US and our allies with nuclear armed missiles, nuclear armed bombers and nuclear armed submarines. Given the Russians&#039; previous experiences with being invaded the context of this paranoia made sense. The Intention of the Soviets were to remain in power and to control their hegemony and not show weakness to the West. The Consequences were a long, costly and often deadly Cold War with brush fire wars waged around the world in the name of ideology. So the Left shouldn&#039;t portray the Cold War as the US acting as an Imperialist nation intent on empire against an innocent and trustworthy former ally in the Soviets who just wanted peace. Just as the Right needs to acknowledge that the Cold War wasn&#039;t a black/white confrontation between good and evil justifying the plethora of unethical, illegal actions taken by our government at home and abroad that suppressed and oppressed people in the name of fighting Communism. The extremes of Left and Right are both afraid of the truth of history because it doesn&#039;t fit neatly into either side&#039;s cookie cutter worldview and belief system. History doesn&#039;t care what you believe should have happened in the past, it is only concerned with what did happen and to understand those events in the context of the time they occurred. Anything else is not history but revisionist political propaganda aimed at swaying the masses into supporting your belief system. In his BBC television series, &quot;The Ascent of Man,&quot; Jacob Bronowski stood at the site of the crematorium at Auschwitz and reflected: &quot;Into this pond were flushed the ashes of some four million people.  And that was done not by gas.  It was done by arrogance.  It was done by dogma.  It was done by ignorance.  When people believe that they have absolute knowledge, with no test in reality, this is how they behave.&quot; This is why understanding history is so vital to our current political, social and economic situation. History can be a guide on how to make better decisions and to improve our world rather than constantly ignoring history to repeat the patterns of mistakes and failures from our past.  </p>
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		<title>By: TSR</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There should be a rebuttal to stone&#039;s self-loathing revision--aimed at the same audience. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There should be a rebuttal to stone&#039;s self-loathing revision&#8211;aimed at the same audience. </p>
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		<title>By: Mark</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:03:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is chilling to note that Henry Wallace was Vice President under Roosevelt and was heavily influenced by Communists and fellow travellers. However it is important to note that Wallace after running for President as the Progressive Party candidate with no chance of winning and refusing to reject Communist Party support for his candidacy soon changed his politics when he came realize that he had been duped by the CPUSA. He  supported the U.S. in the Korean conflict and endorsed Ike in his second bid for the Presidency. In 1960 Henry Wallace endorsed Richard Nixon in his unsuccessful bid for the Presidency.  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is chilling to note that Henry Wallace was Vice President under Roosevelt and was heavily influenced by Communists and fellow travellers. However it is important to note that Wallace after running for President as the Progressive Party candidate with no chance of winning and refusing to reject Communist Party support for his candidacy soon changed his politics when he came realize that he had been duped by the CPUSA. He  supported the U.S. in the Korean conflict and endorsed Ike in his second bid for the Presidency. In 1960 Henry Wallace endorsed Richard Nixon in his unsuccessful bid for the Presidency.  </p>
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		<title>By: reader</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[reader]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 16:28:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ &quot;the effort of the Bolsheviks to rebuild their war industry&quot; is quite a way of putting it. By 1939, when the big war broke out, Stalin had more tanks than the rest of the world combined. Back in 1920, Lenin had announced his intent to destroy the Versailles Treaty to promote &quot;the sovetization&quot; of Europe. In 1922, Bolsheviks and the German government had an agreement to essentially subvirt the Versailles Treaty in terms of military development. So, WWII had been in the works for a long time. Here&#039;s an interesting take on this: 
  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Chief-Culprit-Stalins-Design-Jacket/dp/1591148383&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.amazon.com/Chief-Culprit-Stalins-Desig...&lt;/a&gt; ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> &quot;the effort of the Bolsheviks to rebuild their war industry&quot; is quite a way of putting it. By 1939, when the big war broke out, Stalin had more tanks than the rest of the world combined. Back in 1920, Lenin had announced his intent to destroy the Versailles Treaty to promote &quot;the sovetization&quot; of Europe. In 1922, Bolsheviks and the German government had an agreement to essentially subvirt the Versailles Treaty in terms of military development. So, WWII had been in the works for a long time. Here&#039;s an interesting take on this:<br />
  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Chief-Culprit-Stalins-Design-Jacket/dp/1591148383" rel="nofollow"></a><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Chief-Culprit-Stalins-Desig" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Chief-Culprit-Stalins-Desig</a>&#8230; </p>
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		<title>By: Tony Christensen</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tony Christensen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 16:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great article. It&#039;s chilling to think that Henry Wallace was vice president. It&#039;s also chilling to think that Oliver Stone has the ear of young people who don&#039;t know what they&#039;re doing when they approve of his nonsense. Moral vanity is so strong that they&#039;re wiling to give Stone credence. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great article. It&#039;s chilling to think that Henry Wallace was vice president. It&#039;s also chilling to think that Oliver Stone has the ear of young people who don&#039;t know what they&#039;re doing when they approve of his nonsense. Moral vanity is so strong that they&#039;re wiling to give Stone credence. </p>
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		<title>By: Rostislav</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rostislav]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 16:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know, I see no reasons to reproach Stone: he just feels that now, thanks to the intensive toils of the Bill Ayers &quot;professors&quot; and the Walter Duranty &quot;press&quot;, US audience is finally ignorant deep enough for the untold trash of his film. And I think that he is quite right! The problem is not in fiends like Stone or Ayers &#8211; the problem is in many generations of Americans who were benevolently permitting the free dissemination of the fiendish Communist propaganda. So what kind of reproach can we make today? Those who were eagerly planting the numberless seeds of ayerses and duranties can&#039;t expect a harvest of Reagans or Palins &#8211; every field would be full of Stones and Obamas only. I know it for sure: I&#039;ve seen it in my own country. Rostislav, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.      ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know, I see no reasons to reproach Stone: he just feels that now, thanks to the intensive toils of the Bill Ayers &quot;professors&quot; and the Walter Duranty &quot;press&quot;, US audience is finally ignorant deep enough for the untold trash of his film. And I think that he is quite right! The problem is not in fiends like Stone or Ayers &ndash; the problem is in many generations of Americans who were benevolently permitting the free dissemination of the fiendish Communist propaganda. So what kind of reproach can we make today? Those who were eagerly planting the numberless seeds of ayerses and duranties can&#039;t expect a harvest of Reagans or Palins &ndash; every field would be full of Stones and Obamas only. I know it for sure: I&#039;ve seen it in my own country. Rostislav, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.      </p>
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		<title>By: Cassandra</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cassandra]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the USA had not entered the war in 1942 the war would have lasted lot longer and who knows under what regime would Europe be now. When I watch the first free episode of this leftist propaganda movie i noticed how stone praises the effort of the Bolsheviks to rebuild their war industry. In fact the USA help them a lot with war material.  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If the USA had not entered the war in 1942 the war would have lasted lot longer and who knows under what regime would Europe be now. When I watch the first free episode of this leftist propaganda movie i noticed how stone praises the effort of the Bolsheviks to rebuild their war industry. In fact the USA help them a lot with war material.  </p>
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		<title>By: EthanP</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[EthanP]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 12:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Actually, Stones premise has been leftist dogma for at least 50 years. It went something like this. &quot;The Cold War began because of Winston Churchills Iron Curtain speach in 1948.&quot; Forgotten by all, including our history books is the  basic fact that after the end of WW2 the USA completely demobilized her massive military forces. This was US policy until the Berlin Blockade woke us up to the Soviet threat. The reason Stone can spread his lies and distortions is the simple truth that the overwhelmingly leftist education system has already done his work for him. Our children are no longer taught how we saved the world! ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Actually, Stones premise has been leftist dogma for at least 50 years. It went something like this. &quot;The Cold War began because of Winston Churchills Iron Curtain speach in 1948.&quot; Forgotten by all, including our history books is the  basic fact that after the end of WW2 the USA completely demobilized her massive military forces. This was US policy until the Berlin Blockade woke us up to the Soviet threat. The reason Stone can spread his lies and distortions is the simple truth that the overwhelmingly leftist education system has already done his work for him. Our children are no longer taught how we saved the world! </p>
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		<title>By: poptoy1949</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[poptoy1949]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 11:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My GOD Oliver has finally gone brain dead!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My GOD Oliver has finally gone brain dead!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! </p>
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