If We Looked At America The Way We Look At North Korea (And Other Socialist Countries)

by Rick Gunderman

With the death of Kim Jong-Il, the chorus of hate against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is once again being loudly broadcast. Despite the best efforts of many dedicated socialists in the West, the fact is that the powerful in our society are almost universally hostile to the DPRK.

Kim Jong-Il, and the country he led for seventeen years, are perhaps the most demonized of any leader and country in history. From al Jazeera to Team America, there is no shortage of Western media that goes out of its way to make North Koreans look poverty-stricken and brainwashed, and to make Kim Jong-il look ridiculous, insane, unbalanced and tyranical.

Anyone familiar with Chomsky and Hermann’s “Propaganda Model” knows that our media is not to be trusted, especially when it comes to foreign countries, but even more when those countries are run by governments that don’t kiss Western ass. As soon as a government stands up for the interests of its people over the interests of Western capitalism, they are labelled with all sorts of bad and evil-sounding terms, and what is fact and what is fiction becomes harder and harder to decipher.

To demonstrate just how ridiculous the spin in our media is, I have crafted my own dictum on the United States based on half-truths, misrepresentations, outright fabrications and gross exaggeration. Enjoy!

Life Funds for American Refugees

Currently there are anywhere between 900,000 and 2 million American refugees living in Canada. Total Americans living abroad number anywhere between 3 and 6 million.

What the United States does not tell you is that Americans have been fleeing their country for centuries to escape the tyrannical republican government!

That’s right – after the American Revolution in 1776, thousands and thousands of Americans fled their homes to escape to a better life in Canada. Their descendants have tried asking for compensation from the US government, but so far they have been refused. Proof that the United States will trample all over anybody’s property rights without a second thought!

There have been numerous cases where American citizens were forced to join the US military, and instead tried to flee to Canada. If they were caught at the border, they were usually taken into back rooms in Homeland Security buildings, where they were shackled and beaten. There have even been instances of military veterans being seriously assaulted by police in public, but their media barely even talks about it!

In fact, the police in the United States are known to regularly abuse citizens. Poor and racialized communities often suffer the brunt of police brutality. Torture is commonplace, and the government has now moved to legalize the indefinite detention and torture of citizens. A culture of fear exists among these communities, many of whose members are dragged out of their homes in the middle of the night, surrounded by their hysterical family members, because they are “suspected” of dealing illegal drugs. The worst thing is that the government of the United States has been documented selling these very drugs to the communities they brutalize!

The military is all-pervasive in American society. You can hardly go anywhere in the whole country without being confronted with the military, whether it is in the form of bumper stickers, military recruiters in parking lots, recruiting stations in the downtown of every major city, billboards urging mindless support, politicians who ostracize all those who question the military’s place in society…even sporting events include military displays! It is a disturbing sight, to see so many Americans standing and clapping in unison, as if they have not a single independent thought. The synchronization of this ritual is solid proof that it has been rehearsed – they would need to, since these types of displays happen no less often than once a week.

Americans clearly have an unhealthy devotion to their leaders. In their capital city, not only are many buildings named after past presidents, but they have WHOLE MONUMENTS DEDICATED TO THEM! One such monument is dedicated to George Washington, and it’s just a giant spire in the middle of the downtown. A waste of public space, and a waste of money that should have gone toward feeding the starving population!

Americans have a cult-like worship of their past leaders. Pictures of them are to be found everywhere – on their currency, on their classroom walls, in government buildings, you name it! Some people even put up pictures of past presidents in their private homes. They refer to their first president, George Washington, as the “Father of our Nation”, or if you translate it another way, “Father of our People”. If this isn’t a sign of mass brainwashing, I don’t know what is!

In the United States, presidents all come from the same social class. Many of them are members of the same social organizations, like the Skulls and Bones, an evil cult society dedicated to global domination by killing 99% of the population through vaccines.

Not only that, but the United States has a history of dynastic politics in the presidency: John Adams was succeeded as president by his son John Quincy Adams; Benjamin Harrison succeeded his grandfather William Henry Harrison; and George H.W. Bush was succeeded by his son George W. Bush. What’s more, family members of presidents have occupied other powerful state offices – William Clinton was president in the 1990s, and his wife is now Secretary of State, the third-highest ranking position in the US government! Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul’s son Rand is a Senator from Kentucky. And this isn’t to say anything of the Kennedy family, which has had a stranglehold on American politics for generations. The lack of democracy in the United States is obvious for all to see.

Life in the United States of America is terrible and unbearable. The people live in miserable poverty, with most unable to survive if they miss even one paycheque. Homelessness is out of control, the people are frequently starving, and all of the state’s money is directed toward the military because of a policy known as “Counter-Terrorism”. Counter-Terrorism is basically republicanism combined with an obsession for the military. They have clearly strayed far from their original principles, as espoused by their political prophet Thomas Jefferson. Yet they continue to revere Jefferson as a god-like being, with statues of him all over the country – they’ve named various cities, towns and counties after him, and they even proposed naming an entire state after him in the Pacific Northwest.

The United States spends millions of dollars every year on upkeeping their roads, but some of them are hardly ever driven on. There is one case of a bridge that was going to be built in Alaska, using millions of dollars of public money, to connect an island of only fifty people to the mainland. This while thousands of Alaskans live in desperate poverty!

Every day, millions and millions of schoolchildren are forced to recite a prayer called the “Pledge of Allegiance”. This is a solemn vow to always support the government of the United States. Those children who do not comply are publicly shamed, and this stigma carries on into adulthood. Any adult American known to refuse to say the Pledge of Allegiance is subject to harassment by the government and by fellow citizens alike.

Anybody moving to the United States is expected to immediately learn English, never use their native tongue in public and minimize its use in private, and adopt Western-style clothing without hesitation. Anybody failing to do so is harassed, belittled, and in many cases “offenders” are beaten or even killed.

In some parts of the United States, interracial marriage is discouraged or openly forbidden. Interracial couples have been known to face verbal and physical attacks, especially in the Deep South and in Appalachia.

While their people starve, the United States not only spends opulent amounts of money on the lifestyles of their political leaders, but also to ensure that foreign dignitaries are well-housed, well-fed and kept entertained. Several mansions along a district in the national capital known as “Embassy Row” belong to foreign embassies, and they are some of the best palaces in all of Washington.

Whenever the United States goes through a severe drought, almost no funds or personnel are deployed to help the people. In one such instance, in the 1930s, over one million refugees from the state of Oklahoma migrated to the state of California, where they were shuttled into horrible concentration camps. If you try to find anybody who survived these camps, it is almost impossible, which proves that few ever made it out alive. Worse still is the callous response of the nation’s media commentators on the subject, with one going so far as to suggest that the one million refugees immigrating from Oklahoma to California made both states “smarter”. What evil arrogance!

The most alarming thing about all of this is the Americans’ continued fervent patriotism in spite of the horrible society they live in. On the average American street, almost every house can be seen to be flying an American flag. National symbols are everywhere, from flags to eagles to images of the Statue of Liberty. This statue stands at the entrance to New York harbour, strategically placed to impress itself upon all who pass it, and it is an idol to which the Americans actually pray!

Unfortunately, only 10,200 Americans were able to make the arduous crossing into Canada last year. This is undeniable proof that the US government is restricting the movement of its people. American refugees frequently testify to a highly militarized border with heavily armed officers, secret detention centres in the depths of the border posts, and extreme difficulty with getting permission to enter Canada. This is proof that the Canadian government is complicit in the American state’s efforts to oppress their people!

Below are pictures that prove the sadistic, malevolent, depraved nature of American society. Most of them were smuggled out of the United States at great personal risk by some of the refugees. It is imperative that all foreign countries do whatever it takes to free the oppressed American people (the white ones, anyway) from their psychotic, tyrannical, bloodthirsty, savage, megalomaniacal government!

American women, starving because the government directs all funding to the military.

These two women died two days after this photo was taken of their arrival as refugees in France.

Starving children in Atlanta, Georgia.

An American child in St. Louis, Missouri begs the world to overthrow her evil government. She was sent to prison after this photo was found by authorities.

A young American girl in rural Utah goes foraging for food.

American children waiting for food in a state-run detention centre for the politically insane.

American children are forced to labour all day, every day.

Translated from American English – “Down with the Satanic Regime” and “Help Us, China! We Will Work For Food!”.

Seattle Police use trained wolves to assault a young Mexican-American last year.

A starving American child in Riverside, California.

An American family living in their car in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Chicago Police arresting a man for reciting poetry on the street corner.

Boston Police physically assaulting a young woman.

A young man is arrested by Nashville Police for saying that President Obama resembles Steve Urkel.

*originally written and posted on Facebook on December 20, 2011.

Chomsky’s Words Will Not Stop The Revolution

by Rick Gunderman

“Speaking to the Observer last week, (MIT professor and noted political analyst Noam) Chomsky has accused the socialist leader (Hugo Chavez) of amassing too much power and of making an ‘assault’ on Venezuela’s democracy.” –The Guardian, UK

Accompanied by a photo of President Chavez riding a horse and pointing skyward, flanked by three llanero-looking individuals, the UK’s Guardian ran an article entitled “Noam Chomsky denounces old friend Hugo Chávez for ‘assault’ on democracy”.

Aside from being an exhaustingly typical example of editoralizing through photographs, the article proceeds to go in depth on how Noam Chomsky’s friendship with Hugo Chavez (“Hugo Chávez has long considered Noam Chomsky one of his best friends in the west”) has been compromised by the imprisonment of Venezuelan judge María Lourdes Afiuni, head of the 31st Control Court of Caracas.

The Guardian’s explanation of why Afiuni was jailed:

“Afiuni earned Chávez’s ire in December 2009 by freeing Eligio Cedeño, a prominent banker facing corruption charges. Cedeño promptly fled the country.”

Not a word more of detail, but conspicuously followed by:

“In a televised broadcast the president, who had taken a close interest in the case, called the judge a criminal and demanded she be jailed for 30 years. “That judge has to pay for what she has done.””

The casual reader could be forgiven for concluding that Afiuni’s detention was totally arbitrary and without cause.

Imagine if, in the Conrad Black case, or the Scooter Libby trial, a judge had not only allowed the accused to slip out of the back of the courthouse so they could escape to Mexico, but had personally summoned the accused for a hearing without notifying the prosecutor, all in order to allow the escape.

The judge would be arrested for assisting a fugitive, at the very least.

This is analogous to what happened in Venezuela. Eligio Cedeño, the prisoner illegally released by then-Judge Afiuni, was a Venezuelan banker arrested in 2007 for allegedly circumventing government currency rules to gain U.S. dollars. To the tune of $27 million USD. Cedeño is now living it up in Miami (no explanation necessary there).

According to Edward Ellis of Correo del Orinoco International (which, unlike the Carr Institute, actually operates in Venezuela):

“While it is true that Cedeño had indeed been held beyond the stipulated time for pre-trial detentions, it is also true that Afiuni’s rogue actions were made in violation of all judicial protocols and legal procedures. In fact, hundreds of trials in Venezuela fall victim to bureaucratic slow downs and judicial delays that prevent the timely delivery of justice in the country.”

And in fact, the judicial system managed to secure Afiuni’s arrest without any intervention from Chavez, although the Guardian would have it framed otherwise. Chavez went on television condemning corruption in the justice system, used Afiuni’s case as an example, and described how she would be punished, i.e. how the legal system works, which a president certainly ought to know. To the Guardian, this is proof of Chavez’s tyrannical ways.

Nor would Chomsky have us believe Venezuela’s judicial system is impartial:

“I’m sceptical that [Afiuni] could receive a fair trial. It’s striking that, as far as I understand, other judges have not come out in support of her … that suggests an atmosphere of intimidation.”

To Noam Chomsky, the lack of judges willing to speak out in favour of a corrupt public official who helped a known criminal escape justice must be a sign of the impending realization of Chavez’s totalitarian agenda. Implicitly, we should have expected this. All socialist countries destroy democracy and succumb to Stalinism sooner or later.

If one continues through the list of international human rights groups joining in the chorus of anti-Chavez voices that makes up the rest of the Guardian’s article, one arrives at the much-lauded Chomsky letter.

Helpfully enough, he sets off the Leninist reader’s radar in the second sentence by referring to the Carr Centre for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University as the source of his alarm over Afiuni’s detention. The Canadian reader would be interested to know that the Carr Centre was headed from 2000-2005 by our very own Michael Ignatieff, former Liberal Party leader and open admirer of American imperialism.

Following this vain attempt to establish institutional credibility, Chomsky gets on his high horse and begins shedding crocodile tears for Afiuni’s situation. She has been in prison for a little over a year, and on top of having cancer was a single mother. Indeed, nobody doubts that this is a bad situation to be in. With poor health and young children to care for, one wonders why Afiuni would put herself in the business of assisting fugitives.

Chomsky and the Guardian fail to mention that even among the bureaucratic mess that is the judicial system the Attorney General managed to intervene to have her transferred first to isolation from the general population to ensure her safety (she was sharing a cell block with inmates she had sentenced) then to house arrest so she could receive cancer treatment. Some “cruelty”.

Nor is it evidently worth noting that neither Afiuni nor Cedeño were known to be supporters of the opposition, which compromises the claim that this is a case of political persecution.

Communists should not take lightly the influence that Noam Chomsky has on the petit-bourgeois left. His books are widely available at Chapters and Indigo (why capitalist publishers would print literature with true subversive potential, and why capitalist bookstores would sell them is a rather glaring contradiction), and every university has one political science professor who salivates at the mention of Chomsky’s name. That Chomsky is an arrogant, bourgeois critic-of-everything while having made seemingly few contributions to real activism and revolution is of little relevance – he speaks the truth.

It is this kind of mentality that we as communists must stand against. Not for our own benefit – we already can sniff opportunism from miles away – but because it is poisonous to our allies, the masses, and the entire movement. It is a liberal, petit-bourgeois attitude, no matter the actual class of the individual who holds it.

The mentality can be summed up as “it’s a war of information – we win the revolution through education!”

This is a noble slogan, with a perfect place as a maxim for our media and newsletter staff. Or for a socialist bookstore, or education centre. But it is useless as a slogan that is central, defining or paramount. It can be useful as a very specific slogan for a very specific group or campaign, but only for that.

This, the mentality of the liberal progressives who we often work alongside confines our roles and duties as activists to debates, demonstrations and maybe the occasional leaflet. Without real mobilization of large numbers of people, under the leadership and initiative of the most dedicated activists who can make real demands to the right people to get real victories achieved for the masses (i.e. free education, universal health care including dental and preventive care, changes in government labour policy, unionization of workplaces, etc.), it is a plain fact – nothing gets done.

The organization grows or shrinks, but in any case becomes irrelevant. The policies of government, education and business become more vicious, more reactionary, and more damaging to workers, youth, students, women, visible minorities, recent immigrants, children, First Nations peoples, etc.

That is the practical effect of the Noam Chomsky mentality, of the liberal progressives. Romanticized “political prisoners”, the likes of which they have made disgraced judge María Lourdes Afiuni out to be, seem to pale in comparison.

For we know that the 5.7 million members of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela/Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV), and their thousands of comrades in the Communist Party of Venezuela/Partido Comunista de Venezuela (PCV), will not put the brakes on the progress of their revolution just because an MIT professor, high in his ivory tower, shouts at them.

But here at home, where we’re in the embryo stages of getting things going, the liberals in our ranks keep stopping to ask directions from the enemy.

*originally written and posted on Facebook on July 4, 2011

40 Helpful Tips For Becoming a Successful Anti-Communist

by J. Slavyanski

1. Constantly insist that Marxism is discredited, outdated, and totally dead and buried. Then proceed to build a lucrative career on beating that supposedly ‘dead’ horse for the rest of your working life.

2. Remember, any unnatural death that occurs under a ‘Communist’ regime is not only attributable to the leaders of the state, but also Marxism as an ideology. Ignore deaths that occur for the same reason in non-Communist states.

3. Communism or Marxism is whatever you want it to be. Feel free to label countries, movements, and regimes as ‘Communist’ regardless of things like actual goals, stated ideology, diplomatic relations, economic policy, or property relations.

4. If there was a conflict involving Communists, the conflict and all ensuing deaths can be laid at the feet of Communism. Be careful when applying this to WWII. Fascist movements who fought against the Soviets or Communist partisans are fine, but try not to openly praise Nazi Germany. Save that for private conversations if you must do so.

5. You decide what Marxism “really means”, and who the rightful representatives of Communism were. Feign interest that Trotsky was somehow robbed of power by Stalin, despite the fact that you hate him as well.

6. Constantly talk about George Orwell. Quote from Animal Farm or 1984. Do not worry about the fact that he never set foot in the Soviet Union and both of those books are novels.

7. Quote massive death tolls without regards to demographics or consistency. 3 million famine deaths? 7 million? 10 million? 100 million deaths total? You need not worry about anyone checking your work, which is good for you seeing that you probably haven’t done any.

8. Everyone ever arrested under a Communist regime was most likely innocent of any crime. Communists only arrested harmless poets and political prophets who had a beautiful message to share with the world.

9. Everything Stalin did or didn’t do had some sinister ulterior motive. Everything.

10. Keeping with the spirit of #9, remember that Stalin was an omnipotent being, perhaps an incarnation of the Hindu deity Vishnu, who had full awareness of everything going on in the Soviet Union and total control over every occurrence which took place between 1924 and 1953. Everything that occurred during that time was the will of Stalin. Stalin knew the exact details of every criminal case that took place during that era and out of his boundless cruelty, had tons of innocent people shot for no reason regardless of where they were or their position in life. Being omnipotent, he was not dependent on information passed up from tens of thousands of subordinates.

11. Constantly attack ‘Communist’ regimes for actions that occur in capitalist regimes up to this very day.

12. Claim that Marxism is utopian because of its description of a possible future society. Alternately claim that Marxism failed because it never gave a detailed description of how a Communist society would look. Do not pay attention to the massive contradiction here.

13. Start referring to Marxism as being some kind of religious faith, Messianic, or whatever other spiritualist bullshit you can come up with. When people point out that you can draw similarities between virtually any political ideology and other religions, ignore them.

14. Remember the one-two anti-Communist attack: Attack the post-Stalin system on economic grounds, and claim it just doesn’t work. Since an informed opponent will most likely point out that actual socialist economics did indeed work during the Stalin era, and in fact worked very well, attack that era on human rights grounds.

15. Two words- Human nature. What is human nature? For your purposes, human nature is a quick explanation why political ideas or systems you don’t like are wrong.

16. Bolshevik revolutions were carried out with violence and bloodshed. Bourgeois revolutions were all carried out by democratic referendums, and there was no violence whatsoever.

17. Use words like ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’ constantly. Do not accept any challenge to define these terms.

18. Communists can be for or against whatever is popular in your particular area. If you are preaching to a right-wing crowd, Communists are for degeneration and homosexuality. If you are preaching to a more mainstream audience, Communists were homophobic. Essentially, Communists are for moral degeneration and puritanical prudery at the same time. Again, do not notice the contradiction.

19. Constantly flog Stalin over the Molotov-Ribbentrop agreement, while totally ignoring massive support and collaboration with Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan on the part of America, Britain, and France, long before the war and even after in some ways. As usual, do not allow your opponent to examine the context of the non-aggression pact.

20. Praise the newfound “freedom” of Eastern Europe. Ignore the massive depopulation via migration, plunging birthrates, huge alcohol and drug problems, political instability, civil wars, ethnic cleansing, sex trafficking and child prostitution, organized crime, high suicide rates, unemployment, disease, etc. Who cares about all that when you have freedom of speech?!

21. Constantly talk about the culture of fear in Communist nations, about that ‘knock on the door’ in the middle of the night. Ignore the ‘kick in your door in the middle of the night, stick a shotgun in your back, and haul your ass out of bed etc. because you are suspected of dealing,’ a normal occurrence in the American War on Drugs.

22. Attack Communists for suppression of religion. Attack Islamic fundamentalists for not being secular. What contradiction?!

23. Do not notice the irony that the US is currently fighting an incredibly expensive, losing war against an opponent which it funded, supported, and even handed its first victory in Afghanistan.

24. What should you say when confronted with all the continuing and often worsening problems in the world today, and asked for a solution? FREEDOM!! (Repeat as necessary until your opponent goes away)

25. Nothing from “Communists” can be trusted. Unless it somehow works in your favor, ala Khrushchev’s ‘Secret Speech’ from 1956, or anything Trotsky wrote.

26. Communist leaders were ‘paranoid’ for devoting so much time to security against counter-revolution. Ignore the mountains of evidence, including the restoration of capitalism in the East Bloc, that this threat was indeed real.

27. Communist regimes were never popular. If proof is presented in various cases to show otherwise, claim that the people were brainwashed. Make no effort to consider the budgetary and logistic constraints on such an undertaking.

28. Communist propaganda is crude and primitive. If someone mentions Red Dawn or worse, mentions the J. Edgar Hoover-endorsed comic book series known as The Godless Communists, run away.

29. Praise secularism in the name of ‘freedom’ and ‘pluralism’ until faced with a Communist. Then play the religion card.

30. Atrocities and other bad things that happen under non-Communist regimes are the fault of individual ‘bad people’. Anything bad that happens under a ‘Communist’ regime is the fault of the ideology and system. And Stalin.

31. Being an anti-Communist means not having to have any sort of ideological consistency whatsoever. Preach populist left-wing pseudo-socialism 90% of the time, and then compare the capitalist system to “Stalin’s Russia”(if you never really studied the subject, just read 1984 and Animal Farm). Bitch about capitalism 99% of the time, but balk when someone suggests Communism as an alternative. Far right wing Fascist? Constantly bitch about cultural degeneracy under capitalism, while remaining fanatically opposed to Marxism for no discernable reason save for your affinity for historic nationalism.

32. If you’re an anarchist, keep pointing out the ‘failure’ of Marxism while ignoring the fact that your ideology has a 100% failure rate throughout its entire history. Blame those failures on Communists, or stronger military powers. Ignore the fact that the most wonderful society is worthless if it can’t defend itself from reaction.

33. Neo-Nazi? Communism is Jewish!! Debate over.

34. Neo-Hippy? Tibet!

35. Constantly condemn the genocide that allegedly occurred under Mao, while ignoring the US’ relations with China established by Nixon, and the massive role capitalist China has played in the modern US economy. When you want to talk positively about China, it’s a capitalist country. If you need to criticize it, it’s still ‘Communist’.

36. Claim Marxism is not empirical. Neither are neo-liberalism, ‘democracy’, or ‘freedom’, but don’t worry about that.

37. Always insist that despite the location, country, historical era, past experience, and all other factors, Communists must want to recreate a modern-day copy of Stalin’s Russia, and all that entails according to you. Do not notice the inherent idiocy in this concept, such as your particular country being already industrialized, and not having a historical problem of severe backwardness.

38. Learn to use the magic word ‘totalitarian’. This word allows you to link two ideological opposites, Communism and Fascism.

39. Ignore the fact that socialist states experienced more economic problems parallel to the number of market reforms they made.

40. When challenged about numbers or historical context, resort to labels like “ruthless tyrant”, “cruel murderer”, and such. Remember, people like Stalin were mass-murderers because of all the people they killed, and we know they killed all those people because they were mass-murderers. It totally tracks!

Anti-Stalinism for Dummies!

by J. Slavyanski

In the past, I wrote an article on how to be an anti-Communist. Today we are going to focus on the proper techniques of handling Josef Stalin. See, just as Tupac Shakur has somehow released albums long after his death, so has Josef Stalin committed crimes. In fact, it’s very likely that somewhere, somehow, Stalin is having people put to death, possibly in your very neighborhood. Any unsolved murders in your city lately? It could be him!

1. This is the most important technique: Everything Stalin ever did, or didn’t do, was negative if not evil. Stalin never did anything right, and anything he did that could be seen as positive actually had some hidden evil motive. All your work should begin from this starting concept.

2. Everything that happened in the Soviet Union during the time of Stalin’s leadership was the direct will of Stalin. If someone was shot- Stalin did it. He may have done it personally, possibly bursting through the window of a room full of innocent people, wielding matching gold-plated Tokarev TT-33s, diving sideways in slow-motion as he squeezed off round after round into the surprised occupants. If someone died in a mine accident in the Urals, that was also Stalin’s fault. If someone was run down by a bus in Stalingrad, you had better believe that was a planned murder, the death warrant having been signed by Stalin.

3. Stalin’s orders regarding Red Army POWs was cruel. His application of those same rules to his own son was also cruel. Of course had he not applied those rules, he would have been an evil hypocrite as well.

4. Stalin was evil because he directed the famine against Ukrainians. Of course there is a great deal of documentary evidence showing that he was not even aware of the extent of the famine until conditions were severe- but that was his fault too. He had to have been feigning ignorance about the genocide he ordered!

5. Stalin’s “Dizzy with Success” was actually written to cover the fact that everything in the countryside was actually going precisely as he planned it! Remember, whenever Stalin openly criticized something, it was because he actually devised and ordered that to occur.

6. Stalin’s cynical quotes on some subjects prove how cruel he was. George Orwell’s cynical comments show how well he grasped “ugly truths”.

7. Stalin was only supporting the Spanish Republic in order to foment a Communist revolution in that nation. However, Stalin is also evil for curtailing the “real” revolution there in favor of the Republican government. The weapons Stalin provided were actually “obsolete”; pay no attention to the fact that the small arms were often standard issue in the Red Army at the time, the I-16 fighters dominated the Nationalists’ CR-32 Fiats and Heinkels, the SB-2 was an exceptional bomber at that time, and the T-26 dominated Nationalist armor until the last year or so of the war. Stalin was also evil because he charged the Spanish Republic for these things. Pay no attention to the fact that the Spanish Republic was desperately trying to buy weapons but was prevented from doing so by the Non-Intervention agreement.

8. Stalin helped start WWII. Never mind the fact that France and Britain had totally emboldened Hitler and Mussolini for years while the USSR was practically begging for some kind of anti-Fascist pact. Never mind the fact that the USSR only considered such a non-aggression pact until there were no viable options left.

9. All regimes after Stalin were in fact Stalinist. No matter the insane lengths they went to remove Stalin from their history, to denigrate him and his regime, even if they opposed him during his life time, they were Stalinist. Whenever a capitalist or layperson asks why such and such socialist country failed, one need only blame Stalin, and the argument will be over!

10. Stalin was in favor of a bureaucracy. Never mind all the articles he wrote encouraging people to struggle against it; remember everything Stalin criticizes, he was actually for! Stalin’s will was omnipotent, despite the fact that there are plenty of contemporary source documents showing Stalin’s proposals being ignored and opposed in the Central Committee throughout his entire term.

Follow these steps and you’ll be on your way!