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lchic
- 03:15pm Oct 6, 2003 EST (#
14419 of 14433) ~~~~ It got understood and exposed
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John Schwartz fan r u Schwarter ... meet Stephen ...
Ann Coulter's Betrayal of the Anti-Communist Historians By
Stephen Schwartz
Mr. Schwartz is a senior policy analyst with
the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.
Coulter has used the Venona traffic to make the
argument that Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, Republican of
Wisconsin, has been unfairly defamed by liberal public
opinion. She has intimated that liberals in general, meaning
many Democrats, social democrats, and anti-Communist union
leaders, were soft on the former Soviet Union, and therefore
traitors.
These are immensely complicated historical issues, which
continue to be treated subjectively by most commentators, and
on which I don't wish to expend a great deal of energy right
now. Nevertheless, I have had a minor role in the analysis of
the Venona decryptions, and wish to point out certain obvious
problems with Ms. Coulter's claims.
First, one of the main lessons we must derive from the
Venona traffic is that Soviet clandestine agents in the U.S.
and in the West in general did not operate in a rational
fashion ...
Rather, a considerable amount of the Venona traffic is
concerned with Soviet persecution, harassment, surveillance,
and infiltration of the tiny group of supporters of L T ....
Thus, with regard to Venona and what it tells us about
Soviet operations in the U.S., a knowledge of the ins and outs
of the Roosevelt New Deal is often much less useful than a
study of the hidden and largely forgotten history of
Trotskyism. One of the most significant Soviet agents
discussed in Venona was the infamous Mark Zborowski, militant
and anthropologist, who infiltrated the Trotskyist movement in
the late 1930s in Paris. Zborowski was involved in the murder
of Trotsky’s son Lyova Sedov and other revolutionary militants
whose names would doubtless mean nothing to Ms. Coulter:
http://hnn.us/articles/1565.html
bluestar23
- 03:17pm Oct 6, 2003 EST (#
14420 of 14433)
Rshow55:
"Statements on frequently important subjects are
interesting."
No sentence could better sum up the contributions of Mr.
Showalter than the above.....
bluestar23
- 03:26pm Oct 6, 2003 EST (#
14421 of 14433)
showalte@macc.wisc.edu
Email Showalter and tell him what you think of his
deliberate hijacking and deliberate abuse of New York Times
Forum Policy....
jorian319
- 03:27pm Oct 6, 2003 EST (#
14422 of 14433) "You know I'm an idiot like you
know evolution is true" - - James Nienhuis
"Statements on frequently important subjects are
interesting."
The simplistic beauty of it! The beautiful simplicity of
it! The simple simplicity, the beautiful beauty - I'm in
friggin' AWE!
rshow55
- 03:28pm Oct 6, 2003 EST (#
14423 of 14433) Can we do a better job of finding
truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have
done and worked for on this thread.
showalte@macc.wisc.edu is obsolete - click rshow55
for the right one (you might look at content there, too.)
rshow55
- 03:30pm Oct 6, 2003 EST (#
14424 of 14433) Can we do a better job of finding
truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have
done and worked for on this thread.
The point is super important - and people like you
systematically downgrade the point - in ways that
impoverish us all.
Just as the denial of the fact that deception is
much more common than people admit impoverishes us all.
Very often frequency of use is the most
important measure of significance in use.
And often the most missed - usually for status reasons.
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