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10 Responses to "Oliver Stone plans to rehab Hitler’s, Stalin’s reputations – at the expense of America’s"

david foster says:

January 10, 2010 at 8:43 pm

“(Stalin) fought the German war machine more than any single person”

Without the Hitler-Stalin pact, the Nazi blitzkrieg in the West would have been impossible. Without Stalin’s unwillingness to seriously look at the intelligence indicating an imminent German attack on the USSR, that country would not have been caught so flat-footed. Without Stalin’s paranoid murders of thousands of Red Army officers, the USSR would have been in a lot better shape to meet the attack when it did come.

This is all really obscene.
Peter says:

January 10, 2010 at 10:09 pm

Why are Americans so ignorant of the direct link between WW1 and WW2> Could it be that leftists like Stone and Zinn are so eager to hide the actions of that racist idiot Woodrow Wilson, the first real leftist President. If not for Wison and his rolling over on that treaty, perhaps Hitler would have been a mediocre artist, eeking out a living in Vienna or Munich.
Tango says:

January 10, 2010 at 10:56 pm

….this is really sick.
Bill says:

January 11, 2010 at 1:51 am

Well, Oliver IS stoned. Most of the time from what I read.
Kate says:

January 11, 2010 at 8:01 am

Well, the old axiom that those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it comes to mind with frightening thoughts of gulags and mass murder because of differences of ideas and beliefs.

Of course, he has to rehabilitate his communist and fascist friends because he is, in fact, a fascist of the worst kind. One who hides behind the freedoms of this great country in order to alter it to lower it his standards. This is truly a revisionists dream. They don’t really teach history any more on college campuses and water down whatever history they teacher is elementary and high schools all over the nation. Check out the errors in textbooks, etc. This is being done in a systemic way and the Hollyweird types are all willing to extend it to entertainment in the guise of history.
Brontefan says:

January 11, 2010 at 8:15 am

“…the old axiom that those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it…”

What can we expect with the dumbing down of American education in the public sector and the fact that our colleges and universities are overrun by Socialist professors and people teaching an agenda. Just look at the reception of Iran’s president versus the MinuteMen!
poptoy says:

January 11, 2010 at 10:48 am

Stone has a talent for movies. That is a given. Stone is no diplomat with his Mouth or Brain. That is a shame.
Kate says:

January 11, 2010 at 3:37 pm

Hey, poptoy, you can refer to Bill’s post…that explains everything except how he keeps money flowing into his productions…okay, I know that he’s got lots of friends with the same ideology and deep pockets. Too bad Osama didn’t target the filth in Hollyweird!
Ed Driscoll says:

January 11, 2010 at 4:41 pm

The Inevitable “Oliver Stone Puts Hitler ‘Into Context’” Post…

We first mentioned Oliver Stone’s upcoming Showtime history as conspiracy theories miniseries when it first announced back in August. As Hugh Hewitt joked at the time, “I’d like to thank Oliver Stone in advance for enough material to …
R. H. Maas says:

January 14, 2010 at 4:38 am

This is not the first time Oliver Stone has played fast and loose with history. His film JFK was entertaining but contained grave inaccuracies. “W” was a cartoon with “inside” information made up out of whole cloth. As for assigning credit for defeating the Wehrmacht the Red Army and Russian people (20 million of whom died) deserve great credit — but Stalin as an individual actually acted in ways that were counter-productive to the war effort (as other comments here have pointed out and discussed). The sad thing is that folks too young and/or uninformed to know better will accept Mr. Stone’s take on Stalin as being historical fact. For an excellent factual account of the War on the Russian front I would recommend “Absolute War” by Chris Bellamy [a British historian who is fluent in Russian and reviewed a lot of original Russian documents] published 2007 by Random House.

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