As a British person who has two grandfathers that fought in WWII as an ‘ally’ of the USSR in the war against International Fascism – it is sobering to consider what Grover Furr reveals through his excellent research. I once remembering reading – in Albert Axell’s book (1997) entitled ‘Stalin’s War Through the Eyes of His Commanders’ – that Winston Churchill wrote in 1936 that ‘Hitler was a great man’! This was during the time when the Western countries refused to support the democratically elected ‘Socialist’ government of Republican Spain was attacked, invaded and over-run by the Vatican-backed Junta led by General Franco!
Of course, Franco was armed by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy – whilst the USSR rallied the International Working Class (via the Communist Party). These brave men and women made their own way to Spain and fought and died in the ‘International Brigades’ – under the protection and care of the Soviet Union whilst their own countries considered them ‘criminals’. Even the Bourgeois tractor – George Orwell – joined an anti-Soviet ‘Anarchist’ Brigade! The point is that Grover Furr correctly states that the US, UK and France (even during 1940) would rather have fought with Nazi Germany against the USSR – than with the USSR against Nazi Germany! Joseph Stalin was the genuine hero of the International Working-Class – and Leon Trotsky the worst type of International Traitor!
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 