Similarities Between Russian Textbooks and Hollywood: Justifiying Stalinist Brutality
Russian textbooks rewrite history to portray Stalin as a good guy. Those in the west would be shocked and disturbed to hear that and rightly so. But Hollywood does the same thing with Che Guevara, who also killed innocent people and who sought to spread the same thing Stalin sought to spread.
The National Post, a Canadian newspaper, ran an interesting article on state-approved Russian textbooks that idolize the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, who killed millions of innocent people in cold blood. As the National Post article shows, it “justifies” Stalin’s crimes and portrays him as a great leader. Though as shocking as it is to read this, Hollywood and the liberal left are just as bad as when it comes to Ernesto (Che) Guevara.
Idolizing a Stalinist mass-murderer at home
In the west, there are T-shirts of Che Guevara. How many times have we heard that Che fought oppression and that he fought for the poor and oppressed masses in Latin America? The oppressors in this leftist fairy tale are America, American corporations and regimes that are supposedly puppets of America. Naive people, who believe this, and those who have no idea who he was, wear Che T-shirts. Hollywood idolizes Che. How many times have actors and singers praised Che and wear his T-shirt?
Just like the Russian school books “justify” the crimes of Joseph Stalin, the liberal left [which claims to oppose the death penalty under any circumstance] also attempts to justify Che Guevara’s mass killings of thousands of innocent people at La Cabana. The Russian school books claim that Stalin had to commit those crimes in order to make Russia “great”. The liberal left denies that it was thousands of people killed in La Cabana and claims that it was a few hundred of Batista’s worst torturers and killers. Though Che Guevara himself admits that it was thousands. The liberal left claims that the ones killed in the firing squad got a “fair” trial and that there were loads of evidence of the “crimes” by the La Cabana victims. First off, that assessment is inaccurate. Most of those executed in La Cabana got no trial. A handful of them did get a tribunal. That tribunal is an insult to the rule of law. That tribunal was nowhere close to being fair. The “defendant” were already found “guilty” in the first place. This is what Che Guevara said about evidence:
Judicial evidence is an archaic bourgeouis detail. This is a revolution! We execute from revolutionary conviction!
Most of those executed had no connection to Batista or to his dictatorship. Many of those executed opposed Batista or were dismissed by him. Many of those executed fought in Castro’s July 26th movement and were disappointed that, instead of having freedom and democracy, they got another dictatorship.
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