Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 16:14:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Rob Frantz <rfrantz-AT-u.washington.edu> Subject: Reply to Scott Marshall on Hitler-Stalin pact On Thu, 13 Apr 1995, Scott Marshall wrote: (words of Rob Frantz)..Stalin's pact with Hitler, a betrayal beyond belief. > (words of Scott Marshall) > This is total nonsense. The SU worked like hell to get a defense pact with > the US, England and France. Imperialist policy at the time was to try and > force Hitler to invade the SU and hope they would fight it out and bleed > each other. The pact did give the SU time to build up its military > capabilities to resist the enivitable onslaught. BTW the SU prepared for the > war against fascism much earlier and with much greater forsight than did > their imperialist allies. But there I go again blaming imperialism, > especially US imperialism which produces such nice superior consumer goods! > > > >Just ask the > >German communists who Stalin dutifully handed back over to Hitler during > >this time. > > I will ask them if you can tell me who they are? Well, here's a short list--Alexander Weissberg, Margarete Buber-Neumann, Carola Neher, Betty Olberg and Wally Adler. My source is Betrayal-The Hitler Stalin Pact of l939 by Wolfgang Leonhard, St. Martin's Press, 1986. I recommend the whole book, but the pages specific to the return of German communists to Hitler are 63-72. Now, I don't have much hope that you'll read this, because, having been written by a "renegade," it might just be too "anti-Soviet" for your system to handle. By the way, we had a beautiful weekend here in Seattle. Me, the wife and boys had fun in the park. Sorry, I didn't get to use my "self-righteousness" to keep me warm. Though I may come on a bit hard, you can take it. After all, Scott, if you've been in the CP for 25 years, I don't expect you'll blow over from a puff of hot air like me. Yours, ROB --- from list marxism-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- ------------------
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