Michael LaFlem on C. D. Jackson Biography

[James DiEugenio]

Michael follows up his nice Alliance for Progress article with this review of a book about C. D. Jackson.

 

https://kennedysandking.com/reviews/john-allen-stern-c-d-jackson-cold-war-propagandist-for-democracy-and-globalism

[Robert Harper]

"No serious historian can deny that the Soviet Union, however repressive and internally corrupt it truly was, actually saved Europe from fascism."

The above line is taken from that excellent article by LaFlem. It called to mind JFK's June 1963 speech about the commonality of the American and Russian people. It also focused on what I think truly happened. In the  Nazi v Communist battle, the USA supported the former and even brought them via Gehlen into the US government. Prescott Bush was a Nazi banker till 1942. The power structure will always tilt towards the "power of the State" in any encounter with the "power of the people."

[James DiEugenio]

The Russians took the brunt of the Nazi war machine during Barbarossa.

Something like 80 per cent of the German casualties were on the Eastern Front.  Which, according to people like Tom Hanks, did not really exist.

The combination of the Russian winter plus the brilliance of Zhukov, stopped the blitzkrieg.

After the Battle of Kursk, Dulles started getting his ideas about a separate peace with the Nazis.  And then when that did not work, he then decided to heist the Gehlen apparatus.  Later we got the German scientists also.

There was an interesting book on the subject of what happened to FDR's ideas for a post war world it was called Roosevelt's Lost Alliances. I have to read it. Has anyone here read it?