The idea of the British Bourgeois Establishment fervently opposing Russia and offering limitless accommodation and resources to fascist degenerates is nothing new! Even after the UK had declared war on Nazi German during late 1939 – the UK media soon forgot about Hitler and turned its maniacal guns upon the USSR! Today, I wrote about the ‘revisionism’ expressed in the bourgeois literature issued by the ‘International Brigades Memorial Trust’ (IBMT) whose propagandists are always agitating against the ‘Socialist’ nature of these military units through their work which continuously plays-down the importance of the USSR in the fight against fascism in Spain. Richard Baxell, for example, without offering ANY historical background or context – seems to think that the British Veterans of the International Brigades should have supported the various post-1945 Neo-Nazi Uprisings across Eastern Europe whilst opposing the USSR – as perverse as that sounds! This is what Alexander Werth recalls about the Soviet-Finnish War:
‘Practically the whole of public opinion in the West was shocked by the Russian attack on Finland, but those who were savagely anti-communist and more or less secretly pro-nazi saw in the Russian invasion an undreamed-of opportunity for turning the Anglo-French war against Nazi Germany into one against the Soviet Union. This was also, in fact, the point of view of the French and British governments, or at least of several of their members. It was, indeed, extraordinary how they hastened to get the League of Nations to expel the Russian “aggressor”, even though neither Japan had been expelled for having invaded Manchuria, nor Mussolini’s Italy for her blatant aagression against Ethiopia. Except for some naval incidents, the war against Germany had as good as vanished from the greater part of the British and French press, whose front pages and banner headlines were virtually monopolised by the “Russian aggression against Finland”. Not content with expressing their verbal sympathy, but the French and British governments started very soon to give substantial military help to “gallant little Finland”, with promises of ever increasing help, complete with volunteers; significantly as a result of a hysterical press campaign, there were many more volunteers to fight the Russians in Finland than the Germans on the Franco/German frontier.’ Alexander Werth: Russia – The Post-War Years, Taplinger, (1971), Pages 44-46
All this inconvenient history smirks with the disturbing undertones of IBMT revisionism (how many Veterans of the International Brigades during 1939-1940 travelled to fight for Fascist Finland against the ‘Socialist’ Soviet Union – exchanging their sun-screen for snow-boots?) – and mirrors the manner in which the Western media has been used to ‘lie’ en masse to the people regarding the truly barbarous nature of the Neo-Nazi Ukrainian regime! As we are exploring bourgeois duplicity – below is the story of how Churchill reluctantly accommodated the Socialist ideology of the USSR!
‘On 22nd June 1941 the Germans attacked Russia, and on that very night Churchill declared Britain’s full support for the Soviet Union, though stressing at the same time that he had always been an enemy of communism, and always would be. A few weeks later a de facto alliance was concluded between Britain and the Soviet Union, and less than a year later a formal military alliance was signed between the two countries. Though less officially, the United States also joined in what came to be known the Big Three Alliance… The two great Western allies represented a capitalist society traditionally hostile to communism, and vice verse. While welcoming the existence of a military ally (Britain), the Russian people could not but deeply distrust Churchill, who was remembered as one of the chief interventionist who had tried desparately to strangle the the Soviet regime in its cradle… On June 22nd, the Russians heaved a sigh of relief in finding Britain and Churchill by their side; since Hess’s landing in Britain on 11th May, they had suspected the worst – an Anglo-German gang-up against the Soviet Union.’ Alexander Werth: Russia – The Post-War Years, Taplinger, (1971), Pages 47-48
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