I Blog Once More

Figures it would be hate-speech (mine And everyone else's) that would draw me back to the realm of blogging :P

Either way, this is a letter fresh off the shit-pile that I wrote and submitted as feedback to this: http://www.pbs.org/behindcloseddoors/episode-1/index.html

Read on, faithful viewers, and pray i don't regret this in the morning:

I read through the summary of your series which has convinced me that the show, which had the potential to be an interesting program revealing allied atrocities both left and right, is nothing more than the normal propaganda ridden anti-communist drivel being expounded by American historians since the beginning of the cold war.

I am not a fan of Stalin, most certainly a power-hungry, mass-murdering, and frequently incompetent leader, nor am I a fan of communism. But I also loathe shoddy, unresearched, money-milking, sugar-coated hackwork masquerading as history- which is what I accuse you of producing.

The fall back point of so many would be historians educated in the shockingly doctrine infested American school system seems to be Stalin's pact with Nazi Germany allowing for territorial gains in Eastern Europe. Anyone with any understanding of World War 2, having studied its causes from where the war was seeded- ie, the end of World War 1- would be equally aware and sure to mention the Munich Pact; the West's own little alliance with Nazi Germany. A pact which formally solidified a decade of appeasement promising that the West would 'look the other way' when it came to Nazi atrocities, territorial gains and most importantly, the German re-militarization (in direct violation of the treaty of Versailles) that was the centrepiece of the 6 terrible years of carnage that followed. And the pay off was no secret either- let Hitler rise and he wipes out communism, that scary new movement in the east that threatened the Big Business capitalist leaders of the west at that time.

In addition, Stalin's list of crimes is quite certainly a long one. Violence, murder, enslavement, indoctrination, mass-deportations, ethnic cleansing- the list goes on. And yet no one seems to remember that at that very same time Britain was the head of a vast and terrible colonial empire involved in, what- slavery, murder, suppression, ethnic cleansing- the list does go on here too...(take my word for it, as an American with origins in the largest of such colonies) Which of course, one might ad is coupled with the US's own double standards towards black people- a particularly ghoulish form of human rights violations that continued unchecked throughout the cold war.

So, far from doing something new and useful and providing a lesson in history anyone could learn from, you have merely joined an old witch hunt, the anti-communist bandwagon, reproducing frightfully inaccurate excreta of human knowledge for the sake of corporate kickbacks.

Where the true lesson of world war 2 is how human beings, regardless of race, religion, politics or any other sort of divide can be equally cruel or equally kind- you have committed the crime of merely reproducing the sort of sentiment that led to the war.

Congratulations.
Chitrak