Glenn Beck claims Soviet genocide "erased" from history
January 22, 2010 6:15 pm ET by Simon Maloy
Not surprisingly, Glenn Beck's documentary "Revolutionary Holocaust" was a giant, ahistorical waste of time. After arguing that Hitler was really a leftist because he and Karl Marx both had an affinity for genocide, Beck then "exposed" the already well-known atrocities committed by the world's communist dictators.
Promising to teach us about "the genocide you've never heard of" that "for some reason history has erased," Beck embarked on a lengthy denunciation of Soviet mass murder under Stalin, focusing on the state-imposed famine in the Ukraine.
Seriously? Stalin's pogroms and political terrorism and genocidal policies have been forgotten? They've been "erased" from the history books?
Are you kidding me?
I can't speak for all the history books, but they certainly haven't been erased from the History Channel.
The justification for this "revelation" was offered by Beck's featured scholar, Liberal Fascism author and National Review columnist Jonah Goldberg, who said that people nowadays talk about Soviet communism as a "well-intentioned social experiment."
I'm not sure who these people are, but I am sure they don't represent the consensus of historical thought.
Man, every time they talked about Stalin in college, they used to follow it up with the laundry list of atrocities that he committed while in power, especially the party purges. Maybe Beck should rename his "documentary" Revisionist Holocaust.
Beck didn't go to college...maybe if he did he would have learned something about Soviet atrocities and would not have assumed that American colleges do not teach about them. Another example of Beck's poor educational background...
If I see another Che shirt or Mao messenger bag, I'm going to flip.
Can you say (birther)?
Possible explanations for what this means:
-Barack Obama's top staffers are SO FAT (how fat are they?) that when they work around him, they WORK AROUND HIM!
-Barack Obama has lain across an area where railroad tracks were supposed to be built, and so the workers are forced to work around him.
-All the lights are off at the White House, so Obama isn't sure exactly where everyone is, but they're definitely working around there SOMEWHERE.
-npell am not too so great with the English.
I'm old. I read everything I can get my hands on. I watch far too much TV. I've yet to see anything that shows the Soviet Union in a good light. NOTHING!
Where does this moron get this crap? Linking today's progressives with Soviet atrocities is the same as linking teabaggers to those responsible for the Holocaust.
Either statement is not only false but divisive. Anyone who thinks that the 52.9 % of the electorate is in league with communists really needs to have their heads examined.
This kind of talk will only lead to our ruin.
Can you translate that for us?
In English, Please?
If I really wanted to read stuff like this I would hang out at WND.
What parent let's their kid wear that crap?
It works both ways, you see.
You first.
Of course if Glenn was the journalist his fans and the channel he's on pretends he is, said fans would have known about this tragedy when he reported on the previously mentioned website entry.
(A Brit in peace)
Its leathiality to its own people well known.
The bit that is mostly invisible to Americans is that the Russian Army broke the German Army. The way they went about it was appalling, but the Nazi dream died when Russia was able to push them back.
Um??? No it is not! I know in public school. Especially high school the history books were not real history books. Very fabricated to look like the U.S. or world had a good history. If it did talk about struggles. The chapters were VERY short. On that note the true learning you can get is in college.
Every school should be truthful in historical facts. Not shine things up to look clean or innocent.
I guess Texas did not believe in that: Creationists on Texas School Board Prevail: Watered-Down Science Coming to Your Kids’ Textbooks
http://www.texastribune.org/stories/2010/jan/12/hijacking-history/
What Beck is counting on is that many Americans know nothing about history. I had someone today tell me they had no idea who the Israelis continue to fight, even though it is on the news 24/7...
Beck needs to get a life.
* Lethal Politics: Soviet Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1917 by R. J. Rummel
* Open Wound : The Genocide of German Ethnic Minorities in Russia and the Soviet Union: 1915-1949 and Beyond by Samuel D. Sinner
* Century of Genocide: Eyewitness Accounts and Critical Views (Garland Reference Library of Social Science) by Samuel Totten, William S. Parsons, and Israel W. Charny
How is something erased from history and be in any number of books available via Amazon? And on the Inter-Webs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_Communist_regimes
I do not know why people shy away from the truth. Ok, it is a terrible truth, but why is it rarely, or barely, taught?
Also, Khmer Rouge and the Vietnam War are not mentioned. Not sure why the Khmer Rouge is omitted, but I've asked why Vietnam is and I'm told "it is too recent". Being born after Vietnam myself, I know little to nothing of it other than what I have learned after K-12 schooling, on my own. Sad, really.
This is really an example of genocide denial and you should be able to come up with a better example of how the media has reported on communist genocide.
The three biggest idiots on Fox (Rush, Hannity, and Beck), not a single degree among them, and yet they all fancy themselves educators.
If any bits of history have been erased and/or revised, it's been the atrocities commited right here on our own soil under auspices of conversative-style democracy and liberal capitalism.
Question: Who do you think benefits most from this revisionism and inversion of the truth? Uber-conservatives like Beck, or Progressives?
Sounds like advocating genocide to me.
And where is NBC's, CBS's, and ABC's documentaries on the Ukrainian Famine Genocide in the past 80 years. There appears to be not one.
"Holodomor" googles 306,000 so the conclusion is obvious - that an epic leftist genocide is still the subject of a massive coverup by the leftist MSM and leftist academia.