Robert Conquest - Lies about Socialism, Stalin and the USSR

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This presentation by Mario Sousa - less than an hour in duration - will change your view of history. "Most sane and educated people accept that there were serious human rights abuses in the Soviet Union, during the Stalin period." he says. The evidence is 'everywhere' - everyone says so, and there's no smoke without fire, after all. But what is the evidence? And where does it come from? Q: Can Lies become so well sold, that they are 'universally' regarded as as facts? A: Almost, yes. When the popele selling the lies have very strong interest in peddling them, and powerful means of propagating them. Such is the nature of the dissemination of information in our modern world, that sometimes fires rage without any smoke reaching our senses - and at other times smoke is amplified and generated so that news of some incident or atrocitiy fills our minds, out of all proportion to the events which are being related. This is the art of mass media, and population control, and British and US capitalists, via political, academic and media institutions have been perfecting their gobbelsian art for decades, and centuries. You can read Mario's pamphlet here: http://www.stalinsociety.org.uk/lies.html And Buy it online here: http://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/mutiny_books?_trksid=p2047675.l2559 _________________________________________ Recently, the world learned of the death of Robert Conquest, a 'historian' and author who worked for the Information Research Department (IRD) – an innocuously-named operation set up by the Labour government to produce and spread influential anti-communist propaganda throughout the British media and arts. Establishment obituaries have been quick to promote Conquest's credentials as a singularly brilliant scholar who was responsible for revealing the 'horrors' of the USSR. They quietly ignore his strong connections with semi-fascist and anti-communist propaganda organisations, the Britisha nd American political police, and his deeply contentious use of - entirely fabricated - 'sources' for his allegations that amount to outright fraud, but are carefully propagated and scarcely challenged by the capitalist academic and political coterie. In the words of Grover Furr "Robert Conquest, after Leon Trotsky arguably the chief anti-communist and anti-Stalin propagandist of the 20th century, has died. Naturally, the capitalist media are fawning over him. "A lot could be said about Conquest, but below are some facts (I have checked them) concerning Conquest's most famous book The Great Terror. "Robert Conquest has been identified as having worked for the Information Research Department (IRD) from when it was set up until 1956. The IRD (originally called the Communist Information Bureau) was a British foreign office section set up in 1947 [under the Labour government of Clem Attlee] whose main task was to combat communist influence throughout the world by planting fabricated stories among politicians, journalists and others in a position to influence public opinion. "After officially leaving the IRD, Conquest continued to write books on lines suggested by the IRD, with Secret Service support. Perhaps his most well-known book, The Great Terror, is a universally-propagated anti-communist text on the subject of the power struggle that took place in the Soviet Union in 1937. In fact, the book was a re-compilation of articles Conquest had written when working for the secret services. "The Great Terror was finished and published under the supervision, and with the help of, the IRD – at that time the chief anti-communist propaganda wing of the British political police. A third of the publication run was bought by the Praeger Press, normally associated with the publication of literature originating from CIA sources. "Conquest's book was intended for presentation to 'useful fools', such as university professors and people working in the press, radio and TV. Yet despite this inherently biased and decidedly dodgy provenance, Conquest's fabrications remain, for most establishment (anti-communist) historians, one of the most important 'primary sources' of material on the Soviet Union! [1][2]" See the full articler here: http://redyouth.org/2015/08/11/robert-conquest-dies-but-his-lies-live-on/ __________________________________________________________ Subscribe to LALKAR and Proletarian here, and visit the CPGB-ML bookstore: http://www.proletarianonline.org/ More information about Red Youth and the CPGB-ML: http://www.redyouth.org http://www.cpgb-ml.org http://www.youtube.com/ProletarianCPGBML http://www.lalkar.org Marxist Education Program: Each one teach one! https://redyouth.org/education-programme/ Join the struggle! http://www.cpgb-ml.org/index.php?secName=join Donate: http://www.cpgb-ml.org/index.php?secName=donate