OMNI
SOVIET/RUSSOPHOBIA
ANTHOLOGY #7
September
16, 2025
(Highlighting
JUNE 10, 2025, Anniversary of June 10, 1963, JFK’s Peace Speech, Scott Ritter’s
Citizens’ Summit 2025, and 100 Years of US Enmity against SU/Russia).
Compiled
by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology
What’s at Stake: Seeing the World as Others See It
The bafflingly widespread dislike of
neocon capitalist, oligarchical Russia is partly traceable to the long
exclusion of Soviet/Russian culture in the US.
For example, how many of you have read a book by a Soviet or Russian
writer, or even an essay? I grew aware
of this void in the 1970s when I began to study US foreign policy. Quickly, because only one side of the
conflict between the US and SU (yes in many ways mirror images) was being
presented, I began to search for books written by Russian scholars sympathetic to
their country.
I found the Novosti Press Agency
Publishing House in Moscow and Progress Publishers in “USSR,” both publishing books in English, and a book
seller in Chicago sold the books.
Recently (you will recall I am clearing storage boxes preparatory to
moving to a residence) I found two of those books.
One is A True Tale of Two Wars by
Abram Sharipov and the other is Arms and Dollars by S. Smith, both
published in 1987. The first is
the heroic story of Georgi Gubkin, who started WWII as a platoon leader at the
beginning of Hitler’s “Operation Barbarossa” invasion of the Soviet Union in
1941 and ended it as a regimental commander.
You won’t put its 131 intense, anguished pages (until the final
victories) down until you finish. (The two wars are the defeat of Nazi Germany
and the defeat of Japan.) The second
book, subtitled Roots of US Foreign Policy (181pp.), citing
mainly US and Western sources, traces the WWII alliance of the SU with the
Western powers against fascism, and the “Cold War” attack by the West, as the
SU saw it, on the SU’s socialist, working class and national liberation
movements, led by the US “dream of hegemony in an ‘American Century.’”
My interest in the books is how they
enable me to understand a little why the SU has behaved as a nation as it has:
a nation whose life was threatened by the full onslaught of Nazi power from
1941 to 1945, “fierce fighting for 1,418 days and nights along a front varying
in length from 3,000 to 6,200 kilometres….14,000 lives [lost] every day….adding up to the staggering
total of 20 million dead.” And
enabling me better to evaluate post-WWII Western hostility, that includes their
refusal to invite the Russians to the 2025 D-DAY commemoration, despite the
enormous Russian sacrifices in drawing Nazi panzers away from Normandy. The peacemaking potential of the books,
seeing the world as opponents see it, is profound. (Neither book is in UAF’s Mullins
Library. Feel free to borrow mine.)
The books lead me back to a more hopeful and tolerant time when Arkansas’
Betty Bumpers’ Peace Links members conversed with Soviet women peaceseekers,
and Sen. J. William Fulbright wrote about “Seeing the World as Others See
It.” They also anticipate the efforts of
Scott Ritter today to encourage our officials and our citizens to engage
in “civil discourse and
dialogue [to] pave the way for peace between our two nations.” --Dick
CONTENTS
HOPE FOR AMITY
WITH RUSSIA
Anniversary June 10th, the JFK Peace Speech at
American University. Video of Kennedy’s “Strategy for Peace” Speech.
Video of Peter Kuznick Highlighting Key Ideas.
A Simone Weil Center Symposium. “John F. Kennedy’s Speech at American
University.” Four Perspectives: JAMES
CARDEN, PETER KUZNICK, PAUL GRENIER AND MATTHEW DAL SANTO .
Scott Ritter. “A US-Russia
Citizen’s Summit” June 18, 2025.
Scott Ritter
Interviews Maria
Takharova. “Countering Russophobia.”
James Carden Interviews
Richard Sakwa, author of The Culture of
the Second Cold War.
Dick Bennett. Who Started This
Arms Race to Extinction?
E. Wayne Merry. “Whose Russia Was It Anyway? “
CRITICAL THINKING
Ferreia and
Ferreira. Making Sense of the Media.
Orwell’s 1984 Two Minutes Hate.
Videos. The Book.
100
YEARS OF US HATRED OF SOVIET UNION/RUSSIA
NJToday: Two Minutes Hate USA.
Steve
Batterson. The Prosecution of Professor Chandler Davis: McCarthyism,
Communism, and the Myth of Academic Freedom.
Joan Cleppe.
Suppression of Josephine Herbst’s books.
Martin Sieff. “Controlling Eastern Europe Makes US Stronger:
A Myth Exposed.”
George Paulson. DNC Neo-McCarthyism.
D-Day: Who Won WWII?
John Wright.
“The D-Day of the Eastern Front.”
Antiwar.com.
Biden’s D-Day Speech 2024.
Dick.
Russia Not Invited.
Open Letter from the UK to Fiona Hill’s warmongering.
Sov/Russophia Anthology #6
TEXTS
SEEKING
FRIENDSHIP WITH THE SOVIET UNION/RUSSIA
President Kennedy’s “Peace
Speech.” “Today, June 10th, Marks the Anniversary
of the JFK Peace Speech at American University.”
ACURA (Jun 10, 2025). “Lets
us re-examine our attitude toward the Cold War….”
Read in browser »
VIDEO Short: “Peter Kuznick on the JFK
Peace Speech.” ACURA (June10, 2025). What Kennedy said is still relevant today, says Professor
Kuznick. Kenndy called it his Strategy
for Peace speech. The last big speech
before the was assassinated.
Read in browser »
A Simone Weil Center Symposium. “John F. Kennedy’s Speech at American
University.” ACURA (June 10, 2025).
THE SIMONE WEIL CENTER OFFERS IN WHAT FOLLOWS FOUR
PERSPECTIVES ON JOHN F. KENNEDY’S FAMOUS JUNE 10, 1963, SPEECH AT
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY. THE AUTHORS – JAMES CARDEN, PETER KUZNICK, PAUL
GRENIER AND MATTHEW DAL SANTO – EACH ADDRESS IN TURN ITS POLITICAL,
INTERNATIONAL, PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS. Read in browser »
“Announcing a
US-Russia Citizen’s Summit.” Scott Ritter. Jun 6, 2025. 
We live in dangerous times. Now is the time for the people of
the United States and Russia to set the example of how civil discourse and
dialogue can pave the way for peace between our two nations.
On
June 18, 2025, Americans and Russians from all walks of life will come
together to engage in an act of “people’s diplomacy.” Whether seated in a
theater in beautiful Saint Petersburg, or in the historic Mohican Hotel in
downtown Kingston, New York, the participants will be doing what we
collectively can only hope our respective leadership will do—engage their
citizen counterparts in constructive dialogue which seeks to better relations
between their two nations.
The
2025 Space Bridge/Citizen’s Summit takes place on the 40th anniversary
of the historic, groundbreaking 1985 "Leningrad-Seattle" Citizen’s
Summit organized by two legendary journalists, Phil Donahue of the United
States and Vladimir Pozner of the Soviet Union. The 1985 Space Bridge became
the gold standard for citizen-to-citizen diplomacy, setting in motion numerous
follow-on Citizen’s Summits that helped both nations navigate the troubled
waters of the Cold War toward a path that led toward peaceful coexistence. . .
.
Like its 1985
predecessor, the 2025 Citizen’s Summit seeks to strengthen the dialogue between
the civil society of our two countries and promote the idea of "people's
diplomacy" – open dialogue, exchange of experience and establishment of
cultural ties.
The Space
Bridge aims to serve as a bridge between cultures, generations, and nations.
The program will combine live discussions, cultural exchanges, historical
reflection, and a forward-looking perspective. The main goal is to demonstrate
that, despite differences, people can find common ground and understand each
other. . . .
The goals of
the 2025 US-Russia Citizen’s Summit for Peace are as follows:
• Strengthen
mutual understanding between Russian and American citizens.
•
Demonstrate that, despite disagreements, people can find common language.
• Create a
positive news story amid tense international relations.
By creating a
space for an open dialogue where participants can discuss any topical and
pressing issues, including those related to social, economic and cultural
interaction, we can deepen understanding between Americans and Russians.
The Citizen’s
Summit provides participants with the opportunity to share successful practices
in democracy, civic participation and the protection of human rights, while
assisting in the dissemination of cultural and educational initiatives that
contribute to the strengthening of friendship between peoples. . . .
The summit will
also assist in the dissemination of cultural and educational initiatives that
contribute to the strengthening of friendship between peoples, and in the
process, help identify possible follow-on joint initiatives and projects
involving the participants that can have a positive impact on the lives of
citizens of both countries. The Citizen’s Summit will be more than just a
dialogue between Americans and Russians—it will be a shared experience, one
that hopefully expands beyond the respective forums in Saint Petersburg and
Kingston, and resonates to every corner of both the United States and Russia,
empowering all who witness it to join in on this joint venture to prove to
ourselves and our leaders that, if given the chance, our two peoples can choose
peace over war, prosperity over sanctions, and cooperation over confrontation.
The
Hosts of the 2025 Spacebridge/Russia-USA Citizens Summit
Pavel Balobanov (Saint
Petersburg)
My civic
mission is to show the world the real Russia—not the version portrayed by
Western media, but a nation defined by innovation and hospitality.
I am proud
to be a Russian citizen, to drive innovation within our country by developing
and bringing to market Russian products and services sought after both
domestically and internationally, and of course, to lead this project.
I hope for
a sincere dialogue between Russian and American citizens—essential for true
progress—that unfolds not through the lens of media, but face to face. Like my
fellow Russians, I have many questions for U.S. citizens, and I’m deeply
curious to hear their responses.
Scott Ritter (Kingston)
In 1985,
when the first Space Bridge took place, I was serving in the US Marines,
preparing for a possible war with the Soviet Union. I viewed the dialogue
between Americans and Russians with some interest, since it humanized people I
had only previously viewed as my enemy.
Three years
later I was able to participate in my own personal Space Bridge. I had been
assigned to the Russian city of Votkinsk, where I served as an inspector
implementing the INF Treaty. Over the course of two years, I had many
conversations with the citizens of Votkinsk, after which I vowed never again to
view the Russian people as my enemy.
I have
traveled to Russia twice in the past two years, continuing the conversations I
began more than 37 years ago. I watch as my country once again seeks to view
Russia and its people as enemies of America and Americans. I am struck by the
importance of simple dialogue among people as the key to building friendship
between nations. I am proud to be able to help facilitate such dialogue today,
as part of this project.
The
Venue: The Mohican Market,
Kingston, New York
The Mohican was
originally a market and bakery located in Uptown Kingston’s historic Stockade
District. Established in 1880, the Mohican moved to its current address in
1930. For decades it was a popular place for the citizens of Kingston to do
their shopping.
The Mohican is
surrounded by American history—across the street is the courthouse where John
Jay, the first Supreme Court Justice of the United States, wrote the
Constitution of New York State—a document which went on to comprise some 70% of
the US Constitution. The New York Constitution was written in the summer of
1777, when the Uptown Stockade District served as the first capital of New York
State. British troops occupied Kingston on October 3, 1777, and burned the city
to the ground as punishment for providing succor and haven for the
revolutionaries.
As Kingston
fell into hard times in the 1980’s, businesses in the Uptown Stockade District
shuttered their windows. The Mohican was not immune to these economic
difficulties and was abandoned like many other old establishments. In 2002 the
Mohican property was purchased by Gerald Celente, the Founder/Director of the
Trends Research Institute and Publisher of the Trends Journal. Today the
Mohican serves as the headquarters of the Trends Research Institute, and the
home of Gerald’s annual.
Gerald Celente speaking at
the 2024 Occupy Peace and Freedom Rally
The Mohican
serves as the perfect venue for introducing a Russian audience to the real
America—the country that exists in the vast space that separates Los Angeles,
California and New York City. For the purposes of the 2025 Citizen’s Summit,
the Mohican will be transformed into an idyllic slice of Americana, a café
where the participants can enjoy some food and drinks while being entertained
with live music in the lead-up to the event. . . .
The Event
The 2025
Citizen’s Summit will be streamed live in both Russia and the United States.
For the American audience, the event will be broadcast using Gerald Celente’s
YouTube channel (@gcelente). We are planning to link in audiences from the
so-called “Family of Podcasts” that have collaborated in the past on events
such as this; more information about how one can watch the 2025 Citizen’s
Summit will be published in the days leading up to the event. . . .
I look forward
to seeing you all in Kingston, either in person or online, on June 18 for this
historic event—the 2025 US-Russian Citizen’s Summit!
Scott Ritter
Interviews Maria TAkharova. “Countering Russophobia.” Mar 18, 2025.
Part I: Pavlovian Conditioning. . . .
III. Pavlovian Misophonia
Experiment]
So here is a Pavlovian
experiment for my fellow Americans to consider:
We give voice to positions, ideas, and
concepts using our unique way of speaking.
These positions, ideas, and concepts are heavily influenced by
Russophobia, resulting in actions that produce events and actions inside Russia
capable of triggering emotions which are the logical byproduct of unconditioned
responses. Over time, the people of
Russia come to associate the sound of an American voice articulating these
positions, ideas, and concepts with the events and actions which generate these
negative emotions. In short, the Russian
people have developed a Misophonic reaction to the sound of our voice.
Think about it. We are trying hard to repair relations
between Russia and the United States. We
are trying to reach out to the Russian people to convince them that we are able
and willing to live together in peace and harmony. But the very sound of our voice triggers a
response that is repulsive to the Russians.
We are our own worst enemies. There are mixed opinions on whether a
conditioned response can ever be disassociated with a conditioned stimulus.
In short, this means the sound of an American
voice may always be found to be repulsive by Russians of the current
generation. We Americans need to do
better. We need to think of Nipper, and
his adorable tilt of the head, and understand that the depiction we find so
endearing was born of a conditioned response to a conditioned stimulus based
upon love. If we can’t get the current
generation of Russians to stop recoiling at the sound of our voices, then let
us try to ensure that future generations of Russians will not have the same
conditioned response.
The problem isn’t the Russian people. The problem is us. We need to do better. We need to start viewing the Russian people
as people deserving of respect, admiration, friendship, and love. If we can do this, then we are creating a
conditioned stimulus which is capable of producing a conditioned response, in
short, a situation where the Russian people look forward to hearing, seeing,
and meeting their American counterparts.
Because, at the end of the day, it is not
about the sound of their voices that matters as much as the intent behind the
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Dick Bennett. WHO STARTED THIS
ARMS RACE TO EXTINCTION?
I am tracing the bare chronology of The Bomb’s first years as recounted in
Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War: A Scenario, Chapter Three. My interpolations
serve to accentuate some of the steps in that history she provides.
On August 6 and 9, 1945, the first
two atomic bombs obliterated the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing tens
of thousands of mainly civilians. A
third bomb was ready for another city, and enough material was ready to build a
fourth within a month. WWII ended with
the US possessing one bomb in its stockpile.
Then the U.S. Navy decided to embrace The
Bomb and in 1946 organized a series of three atomic bomb tests at the Bikini
Atoll in the Marshall Islands. [That is,
instead of turning immediately to diplomacy, international law, and planning to
abolish a weapon created to end a war without mercy, the US loosed the U.S.
Navy at the very beginning to prepare for future nuclear wars before any other
countries had one.] Called Operation Crossroads, the tests, designed to glorify the Navy and
demonstrate its resilience in a nuclear war, was “a grand, celebratory affair,”
attended by 42,000 people. “This was
America’s first use of an atomic weapon since the war. A demonstration of what lay ahead.” [That is, a warning to Russia. See the debate over why the US decimated
Hiroshima and Nagasaki—save US lives by avoiding a worse Okinawa, or a snarl at
the Rooskis.] A report was prepared by a
board of admirals, generals, and scientists establishing the atomic bomb as “a
military weapon”—and here is a crucial fact: it was “classified until 1975.” [That is, it was a secret, undemocratic, hostile
to the SU, totally internal military decision, a practice that continues to
this day.] And it was clearly based on
awareness that the Soviets “would soon have their own arsenal,” and that “surprise
has achieved supreme value.” So the
Board’s report recommended the US “stockpile more bombs,” and this set the
burgeoning military-industrial complex “alight,” beginning the massive nuclear
arms buildup, which the US Joint Chiefs approved because [falsely] it had “no
alternative but to continue to manufacture and stockpiling of weapons.”
For the Soviet Union recognized
the enmity and understood the threat and began to create its own atomic and
then hydrogen bombs. Tit for tat, the US
responded to the SU’s fearful pursuit of the bomb (these abbreviations
warranted by their mirror image history).
“What America had created presaged its own potential demise,” Jacobsen
observes.
[Summary from google search: The earliest Soviet proposals for
controlling the production of nuclear weapons were immediate counterproposals
to the American-led Baruch Plan in 1946. The key difference was that the Soviets demanded
a complete ban on atomic weapons and destruction of existing stockpiles before establishing an international control system, which the
U.S. and its allies refused.]
The SU detonated its first
atomic bomb in 1949. By 1950, the US
had 299 atomic bombs. The Soviet Union
had five. And then in 1952, the US
invented the Super Bomb, the thermonuclear bomb (conceived by Edward Teller,
and designed by Richard Garwin), and tested it on Elugelab Island in the
Marshall Islands. The extraordinary
atrociousness of the weapon was immediately recognized, for the island was
vaporized. The bomb possessed the “near
equivalent of 1,000 Hiroshima bombs exploding all at once.”
Some scientists
rebelled. Enrico Fermi and I.I. Rabi
wrote to Pres. Truman to stop the test and building the Super Bomb and to seek
peace. But Truman “ignored the plea.”
“What came next was a mad,
mad rush to stockpile thermonuclear weapons, first by the hundreds and then by
thousands.” By 1967, the stockpile
“reached an all-time high of 31,255 nuclear bombs. ”
US
Had a Choice: The Road Not Taken
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“Whose Russia Was
It Anyway? Wayne Merry, Chief Political Analyst at the Embassy in Moscow
(1990-1994), Talks with ACURA.” Jan 09, 2025. 100 YEARS OF HATING THE ROOSKIES CRITICAL THINKING Making Sense of the Media: A Handbook of Popular Education
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TRAINING HATRED: 2 MINUTES HATE
President
Kennedy asked, Why Are We Enemies? George
Orwell imagines the conditioning propelling national enmities.
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The political purpose of
the Two Minutes
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to allow the citizens of Oceania to vent their existential anguish and
personal hatred toward
politically ...
In the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell, the Two Minutes Hate is the daily period during which members
of the Outer and Inner Party of Oceania must watch a film depicting state enemy
Emmanuel .
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The horrible thing about
the Two Minutes
Hate was
not that one was obliged to act a part, but, on the contrary, that it was
impossible to avoid joining in.
AI Overview
In George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the Two Minutes Hate is a daily televised event
where citizens of Oceania are forced to participate in a public display of
hatred towards Emmanuel Goldstein, the Party's designated enemy, and his
Brotherhood. The Party uses this event to control the populace and
redirect their negative emotions, like fear and anger, away from the Party
itself and towards the enemy.
Here's a more detailed explanation:
·
Purpose: The Two Minutes Hate is a psychological
manipulation technique used by the Party to suppress dissent and maintain
control.
·
Content: The event involves watching a film depicting
Goldstein, his followers, and the enemy super-state.
·
Psychological
Impact: The film and the forced
participation in the hate ritual are designed to evoke a powerful, emotional
response, including anger, rage, and a desire for violence.
·
Effect
on the Individual: The Two Minutes Hate
serves to reinforce the Party's propaganda, making it difficult to question the
Party's authority and to maintain individual thought.
·
Thoughtcrime: The event also serves to
make "thoughtcrime," which is the act of thinking or having beliefs
that are opposed to the Party, difficult to avoid.
·
Other
Events: The Two Minutes Hate is
part of a larger campaign of psychological manipulation, which also includes
Hate Week and the use of the telescreen.
The Two Minutes Hate occurs in the opening
chapter of George
Orwell's 1984. It is a daily ritual where members of
the Party, including Winston Smith, are forced to watch propaganda depicting
the Party's enemies, particularly Emmanuel
Goldstein, and express their hatred
loudly. The ritual is designed to reinforce Party orthodoxy and instill
fear and hatred in the populace.
In the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell,
Hate Week is a period of intense national propaganda and public display of
hatred against the enemy state, Eurasia, during which the populace is fueled
into a frenzy of hatred. While participation isn't strictly enforced,
avoiding it can lead to suspicion and execution by the Thought
Police.
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“America’s political system has
become a 24-hour version of Orwell’s 1984 ‘Two Minutes Hate’.” NJToday.News. https://njtoday.news/2025/01/25/americas-political-system-has-become-a-24-hour-version-of-orwells-1984-two-minutes-hate/
In George Orwell’s dystopian classic, Nineteen
Eighty-Four, the concept of the Two Minutes Hate is a
powerful tool of political control. It is a brief, daily ritual in which the
citizens of Oceania are subjected to a propaganda-filled film showing Emmanuel
Goldstein, the enemy of the state, as the primary villain. The exercise compels the people to express
their visceral hatred for Goldstein and his followers, the Brotherhood, and
then to reaffirm their loyalty to the supreme authority, Big Brother. While only lasting for two minutes, the hate
session served a critical function in maintaining the totalitarian regime’s
control over its citizens.
In today’s world, especially in the United States, the political establishment
has cultivated a modern-day equivalent of this practice through social media—a
24-hour, non-stop cycle of outrage, division, and distraction that mimics
the Two Minutes Hate. The
technique is no longer confined to a small, orchestrated window of time but is
constantly present, bubbling through every tweet, Facebook post, Instagram
story, and viral video. While we are
not explicitly forced to participate in these “hate sessions,” the constant
bombardment of partisan content serves the same purpose: to keep the public
engaged in a manufactured, artificial conflict that diverts attention away from
real political action, like voting in primaries or addressing the systemic
issues at the heart of societal inequality.
The political establishment has realized the
power of social media in shaping public opinion and steering the discourse.
Social media platforms have become the digital equivalent of the telescreen in
Orwell’s dystopia, constantly projecting news, opinions, and advertisements
that stoke emotions—fear, anger, and resentment. Every day, millions of people are fed a
steady diet of sensationalized headlines, viral political memes, and heated
exchanges designed to provoke an emotional reaction, not rational thought. . .
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Countless
Examples of US Anti-Communist Pathology
Steve Batterson. The
Prosecution of Professor Chandler Davis: McCarthyism, Communism, and the Myth
of Academic Freedom. Monthly
Review P, 2024.
With a Foreword by Ellen Schrecker (No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the
Universities and The Age
of McCarthyism: A Brief History with Documents).
Exposes the destruction of
academic careers—and the complicity of educational institutions—in McCarthy’s
America.
The Prosecution of Professor
Chandler Davis tells the true
tale of a mathematician who found himself taking an involuntary break from
chalking equations to sit opposite a row of self-righteous anti-Communist
congressmen at the height of the McCarthy era. Courageously asserting the First
Amendment to confront a system rapidly descending into fascism, Davis
testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). He
became one of a small number of left wingers who served time for contempt of
Congress.
In this fascinating
and disturbing narrative, author Steve Batterson takes a deep dive into extant
archival records generated by the FBI, HUAC, the University of Michigan, and
repositories holding the papers of former Supreme Court justices. He looks
at the plights of six faculty and graduate students—including three future
members of the National Academy of Sciences—whose life’s work was impacted by
the anticommunist actions of a wide range of personnel at the University of
Michigan. He focuses on the seemingly conflicting Supreme Court decisions on
labor leader John Watkins and Vassar College Psychology instructor Lloyd
Barenblatt. And he examines the role played in the trial by Felix Frankfurter,
a longtime Associate Justice on the Supreme Court, close advisor of Franklin D.
Roosevelt, and co-founder of the ACLU. In the process, Batterson exposes the
ways that McCarthy’s righteous emissaries relied on all kinds of institutions
in 1950s America—from Hollywood studios to universities—to sabotage the
careers of anyone with a trace of “Red.”
Complementary documents
available for download
- Chandler Davis’ testimony before HUAC hearing: “Communist activities
in the state of Michigan“
- The opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States
(1959): “Barenblatt v. United
States“
Censorship, Culture of Anti-Communist Hatred
Joan Cleppe. “Down Yesterday’s Road: The
Radical Spirit and Revolutionary Novels of Josephine Herbst.” U of Washington, 1991. DAI 52-08A, 2929. Attributes the eclipse of Herbst’s reputation
to the radical proletarian content of her novels in the hostile climate of the
Cold War.
EXPANSION OF NATO
Martin
Sieff. “Controlling Eastern Europe Makes
US Stronger: A Myth Exposed.” ACURA (Nov
15, 2024).
You still hear it every day in Washington: it is
an article of faith repeated far more often and much more reverently than any
liturgy or Mass in this indisputably post-Christian city. “We have an advantage
that Russia and China cannot possibly hope to duplicate!”
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Both Parties Anti-Russia
“Nancy Pelosi’s and DNC Neo-McCarthyite Smearing of Critics
of US Foreign Policy” By George Paulson
Good morning, Dick! 1-31-24
Indeed, Nancy Pelosi deserves to be
unequivocally condemned for the outrageous and disgusting smear she levelled
against peace activists who think complicity in a genocide is a bad thing.
It is equally, if not more, outrageous that her immediate default
position was to threaten to sic the FBI on these activists who are exercising
their constitutionally guaranteed right. But it is important to keep in
mind that both the smear itself—that these activists are “directly connected”
to Putin—and her call for the FBI to investigate their “financing”—did not come
out of the blue. These are not the verbal miscues of an out of touch
octogenarian. The neo-McCarthyite smear that the former speaker of
the house levelled against activists has become an all but official
part of the DNC playbook. Critics of American foreign policy
are now routinely smeared by leading Democrat legislators and
their courtiers in the MSM. And using the threat of law enforcement has
become an all too common response on the part of Democrats in order
to silence their critics.
D-DAY: WHO DEFEATED HITLER?
“The D-Day of the Eastern
Front.” Consortium News (5-6-24).
While Western Allies invaded Normandy on June 6, 1944,
John Wight recalls the operation by the Red Army to break German resistance in
Europe. Read
here....
Antiwar.com. “In D-Day Speech, Biden Celebrates Deaths of
Russian Soldiers in Ukraine. “ ACURA (June 10, 2024).
Russian officials were not invited to the D-Day commemoration despite the
Soviet Union being an ally of the US and France during World War II and
suffering tens of millions of deaths. Biden used the event to rally support for
NATO’s proxy war in Ukraine and slammed Russian President Vladimir Putin as a
“tyrant.”
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US celebrated D-Day today 6-6-24, Russia not invited. Does
USA ever celebrate the Soviet successful campaign to defeat Nazis on Eastern
Front, or commemorate its horrific losses?
Google search 6-12-24: “The Soviet Union lost around 27 million people during the
war, including 8.7
million military and 19 million civilian deaths. The largest portion
of military dead were 5.7 million ethnic Russians….A quarter of the people in
the Soviet Union were wounded or killed.” Does
US hatred of Russia extend to denying the Russian suffering and callousness
toward its sacrifices in a war of which D-Day was only a small part? Google Search: “By day's end,
the Allies … had suffered an estimated 10,000 killed, wounded, and missing in
action: 6,603 Americans, 2,700 British and 946 Canadians. “Approximately 141,000 American ground troops
were killed in Europe ….An additional 42,500 were killed in the skies
and at sea.” When comparing the
magnitude of suffering, how do you explain the hatred of Russia by the leaders
and the people of the US? --Dick
Hill: Russia is at war with Britain as
one step in its ambition to dominate all of Europe.
Open Letter from the UK: “Russia
adviser Fiona Hill’s alarming conclusion. “ ACURA (Jun 16, 2025).
Robert Skidelsky, Richard Balfe, Anthony Brenton, Thomas
Fazi, Anatol Lieven, Ian Proud, Geoffrey Roberts, Richard
Sakwa and Brigitte Granville respond to Fiona Hill’s assessment
of the current Russian threat to the UK.
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Fiona Hill’s assessment of the Russian threat
to Britain is a classic example of how a seemingly rational argument based on a
false premise and scanty evidence can lead to a mad conclusion (Russia
is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says, 6
June). It is especially
alarming that this conclusion was reached by one of the three principal authors
of the recent strategic defence review.
The false premise is that Vladimir Putin’s
invasion of Ukraine is the first step to make Russia “a dominant military power
in all of Europe”. Evidence that Britain is already under attack is provided by
“the poisonings, assassinations, sabotage operations … cyber-attacks and
influence operations ... sensors … around critical pipelines, efforts to
butcher undersea cables”. It follows that Britain’s economy and society must be
geared up to resist the Russian menace. Deny the premise and the argument for a
“whole society” mobilisation against Russia collapses. What it reveals is the
strength of the warmongering mood of official Britain. . . .
SOVIET/RUSSOPHOBIA
ANTHOLOGY #6
CONTENTS: US RUSSOPHOBIC FOREIGN
POLICY ANTHOLOGY #6 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/02/omni-sovietrussophobia-and.html
Ending the Ukraine War
Reuters. “Trump says he discussed ending Ukraine war
with Russia’s Putin.”
Andrew Day. “Pete Hegseth Says No NATO Membership for
Ukraine.”
US/RUSSIA RIVALRY
Dick
Bennett. Soviet/Russophobia and Jesus’
Teachings about Enemies.
Steve
Batterson. The Prosecution of Professor Chandler Davis:
McCarthyism, Communism, and the Myth of Academic Freedom.
James W. Carden. “The Real Meaning of the Fight Over Tulsi
Gabbard.”
Christopher Caldwell. “Everyone
Wants to Seize Russia’s Money.”
Katrina vanden Heuvel. “How Neocons, Neolibs, and their Media
Collude for War.”
James W. Carden. “Legendary US Diplomat Pans Latest NATO
Money Grab.”
Dee Knight. A
Realistic Path to Peace.
Jeremy
Kuzmarov. Tamara Cofman Wittes , “Coordinator For
Sanctions From Hell. . . .’”
Doug Bandow. “U.S. Officials Believe
That ‘We’ Are at War With Russia.”
Branko Marcetic. “How the War in Ukraine Has Been a Major
Contributor to Global Inflation. “
William Astore. “The Trillion-Dollar
Blob.”
George Paulson.
Pathological Hatred of Communism and Russia by the Democratic Party.
“The Simone Weil Center’s Symposium on
‘Containment 2.0’.” Gordon Hahn.
Caitlin A. Johnstone. “Imagine if Russia or China did the things Israel is doing in
Gaza.”
Pavan Kulkarni. “Why Niger declared U.S. Military presence in its territory
illegal.”
EL PAIS English. “NATO Personnel Already in Ukraine. . . . ”
John Mearsheimer. “ Ukraine’s Dangerous Last Gasp.”
Andrew Cockburn. “Our Real
National Security Budget (With Winslow Wheeler).”
Davis Winkle. Expanding NATO.
John Westmoreland. “Lenin’s ‘Last Testament’: The pro phetic last
words of a Marxist for our times.”
END SOVIET/RUSSOPHOBIA (and Socialismphobia) ANTHOLOGY #7
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