New Year’s Eve reminiscing with lifelong communist Mary Gosman Scarborough

by Susan Gosman

People’s World | August 06, 2019

Tear gas fills the air as Dearborn Police and Ford Motor Company Servicemen attack demonstrators outside of the Rouge Plant during the 1932 Ford Hunger March. | Walter P. Reuther Library

My great-aunt Mary Gosman Scarborough was born in Russia “at the time of the Czar” and was sent by her parents to America with a man, a family friend, when she was only twelve. They neglected to tell her that he was to be her husband, which exacerbated an already difficult life.

Mary was a hard worker and a believer in the Communist Party all her life. In Detroit, she was an organizer of the Ford Hunger March and the Unemployed Councils, and went to jail on numerous occasions for these and other activities. As her grandson William McAdoo wrote to me, “Her book is testimony to her extraordinary journey through modern times and the struggles she has waged and principles she has embraced along the way.”

Deng Xiaoping

by Fidel Castro Ruz

Granma | June 14, 2012

HE thought of himself as a wise man and, doubtless, he was. But he made a small mistake.

“Cuba has to be punished,” he said one day. Our country never even pronounced his name.

It was a totally unwarranted offense.

The truth about reparations: They’re a condemnation of U.S. capitalism

by Chauencey K. Robinson

People’s World | June 27, 2019

Fugitive Slaves, Virginia, 1862/Library of Congress

“Enslavement was about the devil’s work of predatory capitalism.” — economist Julianne Malveaux

For the first time in over a decade, on June 19, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties held its first congressional hearing on reparations. Though it’s a discussion that’s taken many forms over the years, the current talk surrounding reparations for the descendants of Black slaves needs to go beyond cash payouts and speak more to the dire need to address the ramifications of the slave trade on Black Americans.

D-Day was not the only “turning point” of the WWII, Eastern Front also turned the Nazi tide back

A Journal of People series

June 6 marks the 75th anniversary of D-Day – propagated by the mainstream media (MSM) as the “turning point” of World War II. But in terms of casualties inflicted on Nazi Germany, the allied invasion of Normandy is easily overshadowed by Stalingrad.

The D-Day landings in Normandy, France, are loudly propagated by the MSM as an unprecedented military victory and operation that broke the back of Nazi Germany.

Hollywood films and many media reports and books try to make the D-Day as the only immemorial achievement in the WWII.

But an examination of the facts gives a different picture:

An estimated 110,000 Nazi soldiers were killed, captured, or went missing during the battle for Normandy while Nazi losses in Stalingrad totaled 1.5 million.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, then-President of the U.S., described Stalingrad as the crucial moment of the war. Winston Churchill, then-British Prime Minister, mentioned Stalingrad’s heroism, sacrifice and achievements several times in his speeches. Churchill said Hitler’s Nazi army faced the first defeat in Stalingrad.

But the MSM tries to wipe out the sacrifices, heroisms and achievements in Stalingrad from the memory of its readers and viewers. Today’s imperialist leaders feel shy to mention the name Stalingrad – its people, its fighters, women and men, soldiers and civilians turned soldiers. The facts tell reason behind capitalists’ hatred to Stalin.

Following is a series of reports/articles (part/full), gathered from the MSM, that tell a part of the story. One story in the series shows a few imperialist masters’ dirty design: Destroy the Soviet Union, the working people’s state.

The reports/articles posted here are FOR NON-PROFIT, NON-COMMERCIAL, EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE.

How the Soviet Union helped save the world from Hitler during World War II

‘It was the Western Allies’ extreme good fortune that the Russians, and not themselves, paid almost the entire ‘butcher’s bill’ for defeating Nazi Germany’

by Ishaan Tharoor

The Independent, Monday May 9, 2016

(https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/the-soviet-union-helped-save-the-world-from-hitler-a7020926.html)

 

In the Western popular imagination – particularly the American one – World War II is a conflict we won. It was fought on the beaches of Normandy and Iwo Jima, through the rubble of recaptured French towns and capped by sepia-toned scenes of joy and young love in New York. It was a victory shaped by the steeliness of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the moral fiber of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and the awesome power of an atomic bomb.

But that narrative shifts dramatically when you go to Russia, where World War II is called the Great Patriotic War and is remembered in a vastly different light.

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August 2017: Stalingrad at 75, the Turning Point of World War II in Europe

by Ian Johnson

Copyright: Washington Post 

Published by the History Departments at The Ohio State University and Miami University

A Soviet soldier waves the Red Banner near the central plaza of Stalingrad, 1943.

This month, three quarters of a century ago, the most famous battle of the Second World War began. More than four million combatants fought in the gargantuan struggle at Stalingrad between the Nazi and Soviet armies. Over 1.8 million became casualties. More Soviet soldiers died in the five-month battle than Americans in the entire war. But by February 2, 1943, when the Germans trapped in the city surrendered, it was clear that the momentum on the Eastern Front had shifted. The Germans would never fully recover.

A brief description of the last days of Hitler, the Nazi chieftain

Hitler at a briefing at the headquarters of Army Group Vistula in March 1945