World War II - 70 Years On

[jtur88]

Originally Posted by j_k_k

Surely you are being sarcastic. Surely not even you believe that the Gleiwitz attack was perpetrated by the Polish military. Either you are being facetious, or you've listened to David Irving too much.

The most usually cited reason we have for the blogosphere to foment war against Venezuela was the closure of a TV station.

[Grandstander]

None of you remember Attorney General Alexander Palmer and the first Red Scare in the US?

The Palmer Raids?

Senator McKellar's proposal to ship all US radicals to a penal colony on Guam?

The prosecution of Eugene Debs?

The restrictive Immigration Act of 1924 designed to keep the Reds out by discriminating against Eastern Europeans?

We had a dress rehearsal for the McCarthy era between 1917 and 1925. Red hysteria was manifest in all its forms. The US cooperated with its WW I western allies in attempting to aid the counter revolutionaries in ousting the Bolsheviks. The United States refused to recognize that the Soviets were the legitimate rulers of Russia until 1933.