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Alexander Werth’s 1947 book, ‘The Year of Stalingrad’, details the journey of Merchant Navy Ship “Empire Baffin” during WWII. The ship left Middlesborough, UK, for Reykjavik on May 1, 1942, arriving ten days later, and then sailed to Murmansk, USSR, on May 20th. Despite Nazi Germany’s control of the sea, air, and land, and losing seven ships, the Convoy PQ-16 of 36 international ships managed to reach port under the protection of naval fleets.
For Irving, Hitler is an innocent victim of manmade history – and never its perpetrator (an ‘inversion’ of genuine history). Hitler is a sweet holy being who omits light and wonderment from an elevated and superior position of vision (as if stood on Glastonbury Tor). The Nazi German System, according to Irving, simply positioned itself around Hitler’s purity and played out a corrupt narrative within which an innocent ‘Fuhrer’ was trapped and captured! The reality is, of course, that Nazism was the total and unquestioned manifestation of Hitler’s destructive Will – plain and simple (those who disagreed or did not fit in were ‘removed’). Like a seasoned paedophile who knows how to impeccably ‘groom’ a child – David Irving seeks to deify Hitler whilst obscuring his murderous mission by using endless reams of supportive, historical fact. By being interested in this ‘fact’ – we are misled into the abyss of Hitler worship. David Irving is a very dangerous individual not because he is not a good historian – but because he is a good historian. Despite this, a fascist is a fascist – and Hitler was a murdering bastard!
What the bourgeoisie has to learn is that no matter how many times they lie about our (Proletariat) heroes – we (the Working-Class) will still instinctively revere and venerate their true biographies, reputations and physical images! Che Guevara was Argentinian but became famous fighting for Cuba. He travelled to Africa to fight with the Black Africans against White colonialists and he died fighting US Neo-Nazis in Bolivia. When he travelled to China – he was a great success amongst the Chinese people and a favourite of Mao Zedong! In many ways, Che Guevara died fighting exactly the forces of evil the US has unleashed in Ukraine!
He said that Engels not only understood the division and opposition between humans and nature, but also explored the coordination and unity of humans and nature in practice, which has outstanding significance in today’s times and is an important guiding theory for Chinese modernization.
“This conference provides a platform for Chinese scholars to discuss with their foreign counterparts the common problems facing mankind and to provide Chinese wisdom to solve them,” he told Xinhua.
“As a Western politician, I can see that Marxism works and has made China great,” George Pippas, ex-mayor of Cambridge, said at the conference.
Pippas said he has visited China more than 20 times and was impressed by the high-speed railway technology, the high level of education, history and tradition blended beautifully with the political system, which are examples of how well Marxism works in China.
By the end, Irving tells us that Hitler was not in good physical shape but yet kept a tenuous psychological grip on a type of reality. David Irving pieces together the Hitler paradigm with a remarkable clarity and it is a shame that he let his far-right political views edge out his outstanding literary and research skills. As a result, the man formerly known as ‘David Irving’ still peddles his wares through self-publishing, a hard to find website (linked above) and the ‘direct selling’ capacity the internet age offers! David Irving is not only being persecuted for his far-right views (as despicable as they might be) – but is also being punished for pointing-out certain ‘unsavoury’ facts about WWII that emerge from the objective consideration of Allied behaviour! I remember reading in a book about the Nuremburg Trials (NOT penned by David Irving) that an Allied legal expert thought that the remit of the ‘Trials’ should to expanded to consider alleged ‘Allied’ War Crimes – but this idea was considered too controversial and was ultimately ‘rejected’! I suspect David Irving got the Memo (he is too good of a researcher not to have done) but I doubt he had time to read it – hence the misunderstanding!
Author’s Note: Some years ago, I acquired some rare volumes of books from the library of the ‘New Communist Party’ (NCP) in London. This noble institution possessed a number of collections directly linked to the old ‘Communist Party of Great Britain’ (CPGB) – which dissolved itself in 1991 during an ideological panic. The NCP had broken away from the CPGB during 1978 on the principle of wanting to continue in the tradition of respecting the reputation and history of Comrade Joseph Stalin. Since then, of course, the NCP has twisted and turned in its ideological alignment and orientation – but I am very grateful for the thirteen volumes of the Collected Works of Joseph Stalin this organisation furnished myself with – particularly as this set included two further books, a Short Course in the ‘History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolshevik)’ and the ‘A Short Biography of Joseph Stalin’! All these books were printed (in English) in the Soviet Union and are very respectful ‘hardback’ editions. I have placed various extracts on this blog as a tribute to the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the USSR – which happened on December 30th, 1922 – and here I place a short extract of the biography of Joseph Stalin! It is clear that there could be no USSR without the defeat of Trotskyism – very much an ‘enemy within’! ACW (26.12.2022)
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