PrintJune 27, 2011
When Evils Collide
Seventy years ago, Hell fought Hell. On June 22, 1941, Hitler abandoned his close alliance with Stalin, and began total war against his erstwhile friend. Communists all over the world had been providing Hitler with intelligence reports during the Battle of Britain, instigating strikes at critical American factories, protesting against ROTC in American colleges. Then, in an instant, propaganda against Churchill and Roosevelt ceased and these American communists raged against "German Fascists" or "Hitlerites" (Stalin forbade the term "National Socialist").
Within weeks after the Barbarossa began, the Nazis seemed to have won. Before the Kremlin archives were opened to the West, historians only had the sort of imaginary data of which was Soviet history. That painted a bad enough picture of Soviet collapse. Now we know that Soviet losses were worse than military historians had believed. Three million Soviet soldiers were dead within a year. ...(Read Full Article)
