@Pvt.Ryan:
I chose other. I’m all for the War between United Nations Space Command and the Covenent Military. WHAT! you didnt say it had to be real. Also I think Patton was a good general but as a person i dont like him. Were talking about war so comfortably but in reality its hell. Im no soldier but trust me its not pretty. War with the Russians would have been a catastrophy. Russia had people in the insaide already. Stalin new about the A Bomb when Roosevelt told him. Also look at Russia! Its big and cold. Not like tiny islands in the Pacific or state sized countries in Europe. Also those russians were hard core. They lost it all. There homes, there family, there lives. They had nothing to lose. We decided to share the power. If one nation is all powerful they make enemies. If we COULD have conquered the Soviets then everyone would have ganged up on us. They wouldnt like us using the A Bomb on those poor Russians who already lost it all. Then we have WWIV and we make a nuclear winter. But there’s obiously something else at work in this world other than superpowers. If Germany was ment to collapse then the Soviets were ment to collapse as well. And thats an encouraging thought :-)
People have the tendency to assume that things always turn out well in the end; or that things happen for a reason. Generally–and especially when applied to human history–that assumption is based on our own need to believe in something reassuring, rather than empirical evidence.
The Soviet Union was the most evil regime in human history. Period. It survived WWII not because it was more moral than Germany, but because it was bigger, stronger, and had more powerful allies. The tarantula sometimes eats the bird. The bad guy sometimes wins. The Soviet victory in WWII was one of those times.
You mentioned your personal dislike of General Patton. My own opinion of him was exactly the opposite. Despite his hard exterior and rough and tumble ways, he was a man of basic decency. A moral human, when confronted with a monstrosity like the Soviet Union, ought to react much as Patton did. If someone doesn’t, it suggests there’s something missing. Maybe that something is simple information–for example about how the Soviet government actually acted.
I handled hundreds of signals to all parts of the Soviet Union which were couched in the following form:
“To N.K.V.D., Frunze. You are charged with the task of exterminating 10,000 enemies of the people. Report results by signal.–Yezhov.”
And in due course the reply would come back:
“In reply to yours of such-and-such date, the following enemies of the Soviet people have been shot.”
----Former Soviet Spy-Chief Vladimir Petrov
The above describes the reign of terror unleashed within the Soviet Union itself for the sole purpose of keeping its citizens in-line. During the latter stages of WWII that terror spread westward into the very heart of Europe. FDR was fine with that, and Churchill convinced himself that on some level he could trust Stalin. These attitudes were either the result of moral failure or willful self-deception. The below quote gives a brief taste of what happened when the Red Terror spread into Germany.
Antony Beevor describes [the Soviet invasion of Germany] as the “greatest phenomenon of mass rape in history”, and has concluded that at least 1.4 million women were raped in East Prussia, Pomerania and Silesia alone.[17] According to Natalya Gesse, “the Russian soldiers were raping every German female from eight to eighty.”[18] Soviet[19] and Jewish[20] women were raped also.
Also,
The Red Army’s violence against the local German population during the occupation of eastern Germany often led to incidents like that in Demmin, a small city conquered by the Soviets in the spring of 1945. Despite its surrender, nearly 900 civilians committed suicide, fueled by instances of pillaging, rape, and executions.[citation needed]
Any Soviet victory cannot be described as “good.” Nor can the Soviet Union legitimately be described as “the lesser of two evils” in relation to any other nation whatever.
The American Communist Party took its orders from Moscow. The Soviets realized that the United States was too strong to conquer from the outside, and so sought to promote revolution from the inside. But they also knew the United States was internally much stronger than czarist Russia had been. For the hoped-for revolution to take place, the existing social order first had to be destroyed or severely weakened. That meant the following:
- Destroying the American family by promoting divorce, radical feminism, and the end of traditional marriage.
- Destroying traditional morality
- Destroying religion
- Destroying race and the existence of race through immigration and through changing attitudes about miscegenation
- Destroying patriotism
The American Communist movement was particularly powerful in the '60s. Some of the ideas they attempted (with various success) to insert into the public consciousness included the following:
- Radical feminism and female hate of men
- The idea that criminals are heroes and social revolutionaries for opposing the existing (evil) social order
- The idea that the white race is bad; and that whites should hate their own race
To varying degrees these ideas influenced mainstream American culture and American law. For example, many in the mainstream adopted a watered-down version of the communists’ view of criminals. Criminals were now portrayed as victims (of poverty, racism, and social injustice) rather than victimizers and a source of social injustice. Anti-crime laws were weakened, the culture became far more tolerant of crime, and (expectedly) the crime rate became much higher in the '60s than it had been in the '50s. Those who were raped and murdered as a result of this crime spree were a distant echo of the hate, rape, and mass murder the Red Army had perpetrated as it moved westward into Germany.
There is only one appropriate response to the evil of Soviet communism. One must oppose it completely, totally, ruthlessly, and wholeheartedly. There is no moral distinction between the leaders of the communist movement and a man who has broken into your house for the sole purpose of raping and murdering your family. None. The attitudes you have toward that man must also be applied to the communist movement. Any other mindset is far too mild.
