Was WWII Worth It? For Stalin, yes
by Patrick J. Buchanan
Commentary by David Duke on the article by Patrick Buchanan found below.
Most of the time Patrick Buchanan is too milk toast for my taste, but once in a while he bites the bullet and says what he really thinks. He did so recently in an article that is sure to raise the ire of the Jewish supremacists. World War II is incessantly called the “good war” by the media. How can anyone say that a war that cost the lives of more than 50 million Europeans, the destruction of millions of homes, countless priceless works of art, architecture, and history, and cast half of Europe into the worst killing machine in world history: Bolshevism — be called a “good war?” The long term effects of the war could well be the death knell of our European Civilization and the very race of people that created its most sublime beauty.
The immediate effect of World War II, the casting of half of Europe into the clutches of Bolshevist murder and slavery must give any intelligent person pause in evaluating whether the war was about freedom. Even the incarceration of the Jews into concentration camps and the resulting “Holocaust” likely would not have occurred except for the extremism unleashed in this horrendous war where both axis and allies slaughtered millions of men, women and children.
The Burning to death of hundreds of thousands of men women and children in a total of just three days of bombing over Dresden, Nagasaki and Hiroshima was done by those political leaders who love to condemn the Germans for “crimes against humanity.” In truth, it was a war that we could and should have done more to avoid. It was those who sought peace such as Charles Lindbergh, Oswald Mosely, and Marshal Petain on the allied side; and Rudolf Hess on the German side who were the real heroes of human decency. Here is Buchanan’s piece, and food for thought it certainly is.
In the Bush vs. Putin debate on World War II, Putin had far the more difficult assignment. Defending Russia’s record in the “Great Patriotic War,” the Russian president declared, “Our people not only defended their homeland, they liberated 11 European countries.”
Those countries are, presumably: Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and Finland.
To ascertain whether Moscow truly liberated those lands, we might survey the sons and daughters of the generation that survived liberation by a Red Army that pillaged, raped, and murdered its way westward across Europe. As at Katyn Forest, that army eradicated the real heroes who fought to retain the national and Christian character of their countries.
To Bush, these nations were not liberated. “As we mark a victory of six decades ago, we are mindful of a paradox,” he said:
“For much of Eastern and Central Europe, victory brought the iron rule of another empire. V-E day marked the end of fascism, but it did not end the oppression. The agreement in Yalta followed in the unjust tradition of Munich and the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Once again, when powerful governments negotiated, the freedom of small nations was somehow expendable. … The captivity of millions in Central and Eastern Europe will be remembered as one of the greatest wrongs in history.”
Bush told the awful truth about what really triumphed in World War II east of the Elbe. And it was not freedom. It was Stalin, the most odious tyrant of the century. Where Hitler killed his millions, Stalin, Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Pol Pot, and Castro murdered their tens of millions.
Leninism was the Black Death of the 20th century.
The truths bravely declared by Bush at Riga, Latvia, raise questions that too long remained hidden, buried, or ignored.
If Yalta was a betrayal of small nations as immoral as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, why do we venerate Churchill and FDR? At Yalta, this pair secretly ceded those small nations to Stalin, co-signing a cynical “Declaration on Liberated Europe” that was a monstrous lie.
As FDR and Churchill consigned these peoples to a Stalinist hell run by a monster they alternately and affectionately called “Uncle Joe” and “Old Bear,” why are they not in the history books alongside Neville Chamberlain, who sold out the Czechs at Munich by handing the Sudetenland over to Germany? At least the Sudeten Germans wanted to be with Germany. No Christian peoples of Europe ever embraced their Soviet captors or Stalinist quislings.
Other questions arise. If Britain endured six years of war and hundreds of thousands of dead in a war she declared to defend Polish freedom, and Polish freedom was lost to communism, how can we say Britain won the war?
If the West went to war to stop Hitler from dominating Eastern and Central Europe, and Eastern and Central Europe ended up under a tyranny even more odious, as Bush implies, did Western civilization win the war?
In 1938, Churchill wanted Britain to fight for Czechoslovakia. Chamberlain refused. In 1939, Churchill wanted Britain to fight for Poland. Chamberlain agreed. At the end of the war Churchill wanted and got, Czechoslovakia and Poland were in Stalin’s empire.
How, then, can men proclaim Churchill “Man of the Century”?
True, U.S. and British troops liberated France, Holland, and Belgium from Nazi occupation. But before Britain declared war on Germany, France, Holland, and Belgium did not need to be liberated. They were free. They were only invaded and occupied after Britain and France declared war on Germany – on behalf of Poland.
When one considers the losses suffered by Britain and France – hundreds of thousands dead, destitution, bankruptcy, the end of the empires – was World War II worth it, considering that Poland and all the other nations east of the Elbe were lost anyway?
If the objective of the West was the destruction of Nazi Germany, it was a “smashing” success. But why destroy Hitler? If to liberate Germans, it was not worth it. After all, the Germans voted Hitler in.
If it was to keep Hitler out of Western Europe, why declare war on him and draw him into Western Europe? If it was to keep Hitler out of Central and Eastern Europe, then, inevitably, Stalin would inherit Central and Eastern Europe.
Was that worth fighting a world war – with 50 million dead?
The war Britain and France declared to defend Polish freedom ended up making Poland and all of Eastern and Central Europe safe for Stalinism. And at the festivities in Moscow, Americans and Russians were front and center, smiling – not British and French. Understandably.
Yes, Bush has opened up quite a can of worms.
