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Saturday, May 15, 2010

Those KGB Files ...

Why doesn’t anyone care about
the Soviet document archive?
“ For evidence of this indifference, consider the unread Soviet archives. Pavel Stroilov, a Russian exile in London, has on his computer 50,000 unpublished, untranslated, top-secret Kremlin documents, mostly dating from the close of the Cold War. He stole them in 2003 and fled Russia. Within living memory, they would have been worth millions to the CIA; they surely tell a story about Communism and its collapse that the world needs to know. Yet he can’t get anyone to house them in a reputable library, publish them, or fund their translation. In fact, he can’t get anyone to take much interest in them at all.
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With our access to Soviet files after the USSR break-up, I wondered how it was that only Euro "journalists" were being outed as KGB assets?  I expected to have revealed an  Edward R. Murrow file.  It was Murrow who shaped CBS News by bringing in the likes of Walter Cronkite, whose own legacy continues to shape the networks anti-American politics to this day.

   Ed Morrissey asked "When was the last time we saw a movie with a Communist villain?  1959?"  With all the films about how Joe McCarthy (who had nothing to do with Hollywood) persecuted the "Hollywood Ten," you'd think one would have documented that all of them were card carrying communists, ordered by the Comintern  to make sure Joe Stalin, or communism, was never portrayed negatively in film.  Gah, I'm getting wound up.  Read Morrissey.
JMcD
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5 comments:

  1. JMcD5/15/10, 10:33 AM

    The Left media continues the charade that "Gorby" isn't a real Commie because of Glasnost & Perestroika and that he, Gorby brought down Communism.....
    That helps relieve the Liberals and Commies in this country, and throughout the world, of facing the truth and to allow them to continue living in fantasy land.
    They just can't face the reality they Reagan broke the back of the USSR on top of decades of Conservative efforts to maintain the west's lead in technology and advanced weapons.
    The MSM is totally uninterested in anything that casts a bad light on the USSR.

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  2. Bob Hawkins5/15/10, 10:39 AM

    Yale University Press put out a series of books with stuff from the Soviet archives. I have one all about the USSR helping Hitler rearm Germany.

    Anyway, WFB had the editor of the series on Firing Line. The editor said it took $50,000 of seed money per volume to get the material from the archives to the US, and they applied to all the big foundations for grants. He said the five biggest foundations had not put up a dime.

    Turing word: "schotym". As far as I know the Ford Foundation did not in fact have the editor shot.

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  3. badanov5/15/10, 12:00 PM

    See "Comrade" Jesse Jackson

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  4. Aggravated DocSurg5/15/10, 5:57 PM

    There are some parts of the Soviet archive that have been accessed and translated, relating to the
    GULAG, torture, and the use of prisoners as experimental subjects. I know that the media in this country don't like to admit it, but the communists did some unspeakable things to people, especially political prisoners. I posted about one such SOB last year, and there is a recent book that deserves much wider readership that exposes much, much more --- The Perversion Of Knowledge: The True Story Of Soviet Science.

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  5. JMcD5/17/10, 6:08 AM

    Words of wisdom:
    In a three man meat beating team, the man who provides the schwantz, also gets to use the smallest hammer.
    That there's a fair and decent rule, by golly.

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