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“In their many bloody clashes for dominance in Germany, the Nazis and Commies were virtually indistinguishable. Both were totalitarians, ever ready to brutalize to crush resistance to their respective ideologies.”
That was Hans Massaquoi, son of a Liberian father and German mother, in Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany. British author Paul Johnson didn’t grow up in Nazi Germany, but his landmark Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Eighties, takes up the “virtually indistinguishable” theme in considerable detail.
By the dawn of the 1930s, “Stalin had already begun to perfect the dramaturgy of terror.” The decision to collectivize by force, “was taken suddenly, without any kind of public debate” and Stalin set out to “smash the kulaks, eliminate them as a class.” This was “the green light for a policy of extermination, more than three years before Hitler came to power, twelve years before the ordering of the ‘Final Solution.’”
The Thirties was “the age of the heroic lie,” Johnson writes, and “the competition to deceive became more fierce when Stalinism acquired a moral rival in Hitler’s Germany.” Stalin’s agents “were always quick to learn anything the Gestapo and SS had to teach. But the instruction was mutual.”
The Stalin-Hitler Pact of 1939 was the “culmination of a series of contacts between Soviet and German governments.” For two decades “this evil stream of exchanges had flowed underground. Now at last it broke to the surface.” During the Pact, Stalin handed Jewish communists directly to Hitler’s Gestapo. At the height of the SS extermination program in 1942-45, “there were many more Soviet camps, most of them larger than the Nazi ones.” Early in 1941, Johnson notes, “Stalin began quietly to accumulate military reserves of his own, the Stavka, which he commanded personally.”
As in all totalitarian systems, Johnson explains, “a false vernacular had to be created to conceal the concrete horrors of moral relativism.” The SS terms for murder included “special treatment,” “resettlement,” and above all “sending East.” Before Hitler died, “he had largely committed the greatest single crime in history, the extermination of the European Jews.”
As Johnson shows, Stalin’s Soviet Union “was in essentials as anti-Semitic as Tsardom had been.” After WWII, “the tale was resumed where it had left off when Stalin and Hitler signed the pact of August 1939, and Soviet Russia represented the acquisitive totalitarian principle on the world stage.”
Stalin branded Jews as rootless “cosmopolitans,” the same term he used for Westerners. Wall street bankers in Soviet cartoons suddenly sported Jewish features. The Jewish actor Solomon Mikhoels, chairman of the Soviet Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, was murdered in a fake car accident. By second half of 1952, “Stalin was seeing Jewish-tinged conspiracies everywhere.” Jewish doctors attached to the Kremlin were arrested and accused of murdering Zhdanov.
Stalin had “lost touch with the normal world” which Johnson found “curiously reminiscent of Hitler’s last years.” The climate of moral corruption, Johnson concludes, “operates a satanic Gresham’s Law, in which evil drives out good.” Jump ahead to the 2020s in America under the Biden Junta.
The people find imprisonment without trial, political prisoners kept in solitary confinement, and show trials, all in the best Stalinist style. The government establishes a Disinformation Governance Board, and leverages media companies to take down posts that disagree with the government line.
Hitler had his SS and Gestapo, and Stalin his Stavka and NKVD. In similar style, the CIA, supposedly on guard for America’s security, is now a political force deployed against Donald Trump and other possible candidates. The FBI, charged with counterintelligence, now makes no secret of its deployment against Biden’s domestic opposition. Biden’s September 1, 2022 speech was like something staged by Leni Riefenstahl. Recall too the events of October 7, 2023, the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.
“From the River to the Sea,” is basically a call for a second Holocaust, and pro-Hamas activist shout it loud in the streets, on Ivy League campuses, and in the halls of Congress. The Biden Junta is harder on the Israeli response than the Hamas terrorists of 10/7, basically an Islamic Einstatzgruppen.
Elements of Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s USSR are now on display in the United States of America. At this point, as Hans Massaquoi discovered growing up in Nazi Germany, they are pretty much indistinguishable.
After World War II, Massaquoi came to America and found Harlem “peopled by active working-class folks not much different from those in my old Hamburg neighborhood. The only difference was that everyone – from the mailman to the barber to the police man to the garbage collector to the occasional big shot in a Cadillac convertible – was black.”
In the U.S. Army, “we black recruits got on well with our white comrades, and many interracial friendships formed.” In a military band, “we and our white buddies were like peas in a pod” and “our new integrated band not only looked like one harmonious ensemble, but it sounded better than either of the two groups had sounded alone.” Such positive portrayals of America explain why Destined to Witness is not featured during Black History Month.
Hans Massaquoi passed away in 2013 and Paul Johnson carried on until January 2023. Modern Times remains a work for current times, when totalitarianism and anti-Semitism are on the march at home and abroad.
Just who is financing these Invaders CFR, Soros, United Nations Etc.
At the moment, we taxpayers are.
You forgot to list churches of various denominations and religious charities.
And they do it on our dime.
Geore Soros the #1 supporter of Criminals
Thank you. Im so glad you wrote this.
Today’s US left is anti-Semitic, virulently anti-Israel, genocidal even as they accuse Israel of the crime the genocide long to commit. `But I have been appalled at the Israel and Jew hate bubbling on the non-left. At first it was couched in “no money for israel” without any facts or understanding of the business arrangements between the two countries or Israel’s economy. But it’s morphing into nasty comments about any Jewish person online. The word Zionism, a lovely concept, is spat out as if it’s an insult somehow.
There seems to be no insight that they are matching the sentiments of “the squad” of Biden and the Obamas and of the Islam and the Left .
And trolls online still ask why some older Jews do not leave the left. They should. But where can they go?
In a previous post, Chaya, you asked me if I was aware that anti-Zionism is the same as antisemitism. I’ll answer here: of course they are one and the same. And I, too am very disturbed about the refusal of some stalwarts of the anti-Left, such as Taylor-Greene and Gaetz, to financially aid Israel in its fight for survival. Israel appears to be increasingly on its own; we see a growing number of those in Congress going to the dark side.
The Likud party was my choice. The Republicans here in the States are worse than useless with their feeble brand of conservatism. But political and financial support does not have to be limited to the country in which you live. Israel’s Likud is the world’s last bastion against shameless evil, and needs all the support that it can get.
You have the point but don’t discount the work Jews themselves do. From Chomsky and Finkielstein and Sanders on the far left to Schiff and Schumer or that idiot woman from Florida, there are Jews willing to be a public face of Democrat misdeeds and every unpopular agenda and so we manage to create, if not enemies, then disinterested in our plight people.
Why have our Jewish organizations allowed the spread of the Arab narrative, while Jewish leftist professors either ignored it, or worse, helped it. Why do Jews rejected help from the Evangelical Christians and instead had courted the likes of Obama? Why were Jews so prominent in hounding Trump, the only actually pro-Jewish and pro-Israel President in the entire US history. I only hope, that if he is allowed to win, he can find in his heart to forgive us.
Now there should be a wake up moment, but did Jews really awake to the danger we are facing, or only some have. How many Jews will vote for Biden, or somebody just like him?
True, Tucker, the gentler version of antisemitism, as opposed to the hard core, is getting a public hearing the way it wouldn’t have happened two decades ago, but somebody should give a swift kick in the pants to our brethren and the organizations they support, for fighting non-existent Islamophobia and for promoting Muslim immigrations and illegal immigration from countries where antisemitism thrives, into the US. The list is long. I hope, we can build no coalitions with people who can be our friends, because, so far, we have looked for love in all the wrong places.
Typo in the last sentence. Should be ‘new coalitions’ and not ‘no’.
NYgal,
You mention an “idiot woman from Florida.” I assume you mean Washerwoman Schultz. But there’s an equally egregious water-carrying Democrat apparachik from Florida who “represents” an adjacent Congressional district: the appalling Lois Frankel. While both are historically pro-Israel and remain so, they shamelessly support every destructive Democrat policy and Democrat-sponsored pieces of legislation under the sun. Both are beneath contempt.
If Tucker is anti-Semitic …
… all of us are anti-Semitic.
You might as well vote Demokkkrat and hope the alligators will eat you last.
I know this may twist your Yankee panties,
… but those of living out here in flyover country ….
… where America has been on fire since 1964 …
… are tired of spending billions of dollars on endless wars as well as on Demokkkrat treason …
And if that means Israel has to fight alone unless or until the KKKrats cry ‘uncle’ … so be it.
Pretty sure the IDF can do their job without my help anyway …
… Meanwhile I watched criminal invaders CROSSING MY STREETS yesterday.
… And there were no soldiers, no border patrol, and no cops to stop them.
If you Yankees stopped hating your neighbors and gave a crap about the rest of us …
… you would not be getting backlash.
It’s getting very frickin’ “real” down here – and I’m almost 800 miles from the border …
Oh, and you are only a few thousand miles away … so you’re on the menu too.
Tucker is noninterventionist towards the point of isolationism. His excuse to avoid internationalism is corruption, which is a domestic problem. We are not all Tuckers.
Hello Chaya – You ask: Where can they go? Well, where can any of us go in the face of “the world”, the current wicked system of things on the earth, with its devious politics and its cruel wars? We can go to the congregated people of our Creator, the God of Abraham. They called at my door over 30 years ago, and I have clung to them ever since.
The Kingdom of God will restore the whole earth to the paradise of peace it was always meant to be – and will restore obedient humankind to the life and perfection our first parents so tragically lost. Already it is teaching millions of us – from “every tribe and nation and tongue” – to live in peace as the brothers and sisters we truly are.
In such a divided hate-filled world, isn’t that a miracle?
Why is my comment is always going to moderation and why it’s time is 8.:41PM when it was sent 10:00 AM
Frankly, I’m being discouraged from posting anything anymore. Is it deliberate ?
It is strange that the posted times of a comment seem to be vastly incorrect always.
Why is this happening ?
All of my comments go into moderation.
Albeit, I think all of them have posted. At least many are.
We have to accept the fact that the situation is tense.
Heck, I just wrote you a testy, snarky, insult-y one, and I’m not sure that will be posted.
We need to try to be considerate to FPM and their moderators.
How to describe the modern “new” resurgence of Nazism except as a corollary to the rise of communism and radical Islam? The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al Husseini raised SS divisions for Germany and spent the WWII in Berlin hobnobbing with Hitler on the best ways to kill all the Jews. He was a founder of the Muslim brotherhood, whose military wing is Hamas. The enemies of Israel are still and always the Nazi/Muslim alliance, now enthusiastically reclaimed by the left.
Which, as National Socialists, is where they always were anyway.
Today we’ve seen the largest resurgence of leftist Nazism since the War.
” The climate of moral corruption, “operates a satanic Gresham’s Law, in which evil drives out good.” ”
This describes what is happening in America now.
The way I see it, there’s only two ways we can go from this point forward: 1776.v2 or Germany 1933.
I agree.
The political situation in America is going to go all one way or the other … soon.
It will be 1933 unless you can figure out how to clean our public schools and higher levels of education. An ignorant population is easy to manipulate. Watch a few “man in the street” interviews held on college campuses and you’ll see what I mean. The H itler youth were pikers compared to what we’re turning out.
Hello Dr, Billingsley. It is quite a surprise to see the Nazi-Soviet Pact so strongly referenced. My father, a Polish para, his family – and so many millions of others – suffered so much because of it. But I thought it had been sent down the Memory Hole decades ago.
We – the human family – have been living in a tragedy since the loss of Eden, and isn’t it only the Kingdom of God – the heavenly government – that will bring us real peace and security? The Hebrew Scriptures promise us that it will end the time during which “man has dominated man to his harm”, and under its loving – and impartial – reign the peace of paradise will be restored earthwide.
CNN and the left rely on ABORTIONS!
Don’t worry about RAPES!!!!