The United States government, at this moment, is aligned with many fascists and neo-Nazis. In Ukraine, a swastika-wearing gang called “the Right Sector” was the primary force in the campaign of street violence and terror that brought down the elected government. The “Right Sector” is just one of a number of Ukrainian ultra-nationalist groups that openly admires Hitler. Various figures in the Kiev-based regime, backed by the United States as it threatens Russia, have openly praised Adolph Hitler. The Kiev regime is dependent on these crazed anti-Russian fanatics as it wages a war against its own population in the East. In Syria, the US has aligned itself with Takfiri extremists. These are armed Islamic groups that call for the extermination of those who hold unacceptable religious beliefs. The Takfiris are known to torture, recruit child soldiers, and commit other heinous crimes against humanity. They are known to summarily execute people by means of beheading for nothing other than their religion or ethnicity. The US government and its allies have funded these forces in the hopes of toppling the Syrian Arab Republic. In Bolivia, Venezuela, Ecuador, and other Bolivarian countries, the US-backed “opposition” contains many who admire fascist dictators Francisco Franco and Augusto Pinochet. The anti-Bolivarian minority in Latin America openly talks of a campaign of terrorist violence to overthrow the elected, pro-socialist governments. Venezuelan official Robert Serra was already assassinated by these extremists, and their campaign of violence is likely to escalate as these popular anti-capitalist governments solidify themselves. Even within the US borders there has been a revival of fascist and Neo-nazi sentiment. The Ku Klux Klan revealed itself on the streets of Ferguson, threatening those who dared protest the killing of Michael Brown. Anti-immigrant groups in Arizona and New Mexico often display swastikas and advocate what they call “racial purity” in the United States. Anti-immigrant Sheriff Joe Arpaio has proudly taken photographs with white nationalists, and figures aligned with white supremacist groups hold public office in some parts of the southwest. How can any of this be morally justified? The crimes of Nazis and fascists are well known and well documented, and horrify anyone with a basic sense of human morality. In addition, so much of the national identity of people in the US for the last seven decades has been based on concepts like “freedom” and “democracy.” To be aligned with forces who call for fascist dictatorship and racial slaughter is antithetical to the propaganda about “the American way of life.” In order to justify the current policies of the United States government, both domestically and internationally, a campaign of historical revisionism is being waged. Writers like Timothy Snyder and Roger Moorhouse are being widely promoted throughout US media. Timothy Snyder is treated as an “expert” on Ukraine and gives interviews on the subject on almost every TV network. Snyder’s book Bloodlands is widely circulated, reviewed and promoted. More recently, Moorhouse’s book The Devil’s Alliance has been reviewed in the Wall Street Journal and other prominent publications. These texts are not about current events in Ukraine, Venezuela, Syria, or Arizona. Rather these texts speak only of events that took place in the 1930s and 40s. However, these historical texts are being widely circulated because they serve to justify the current actions of the rulers of the United States. The message of these books is simple: “Soviet communism and German Nazism were morally equivalent.” If this historical falsehood can be established, continued US support for fascism can be rendered far less immoral. One primary talking point of these historical revisionists is that the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany were at one point “allies.” This is the message of Moorhouse’s The Devil’s Alliance and is stated in Snyder’s Bloodlands. This is absolutely false. The Soviet Union and the German Nazi state were never allies. At no point did the two governments ever express mutual admiration for each other. The 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop pact did not constitute an alliance. The Soviet Union and Nazi Germany were antagonistic societies, based on principles that were absolutely contrary to each other. The two societies not only never aligned, but could not peacefully coexist. First appeared: journal-neo.org/.../historical-mythology-in-the.../
Posted on: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 02:53:40 +0000
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