For 70 years, we were told by our government that #communism was the greatest threat to our American way of life.

It was a lie.

This powerful documentary film challenges everything you thought was true.

Anti-#communism was the 20th Century version of the War on Terror — a convenient excuse to wage wars of aggression around the world and take away your rights at home. 🇺🇸
This 1983 documentary on the uniquely American brand of #communism in the early to mid 20th Century contains interviews with some of the living pioneers who were there at the barricades.

@RealCalebMaupin, if you haven’t seen this one, I think it’s right up your alley brother.
If you have an 8 hour work day, paid holidays, and sick leave, thank a #communist.

If you have ever drawn unemployment benefits, or have Social Security, or disability, thank a communist.

If you’re a minority who votes, thank a communist.

#communists have improved America.

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Jan 6
I see the NAFO Nazis have been busy reporting my tweets exposing their Naziness.

#Germany #NazisInUkraine
This was the tweet that triggered them so much. Gee I wonder why? 😝

I, of course, returned the favor and reported THEM for all their tweets wishing for my death, and images depicting graphic sex/violence.
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Jan 6
"Louis Armstrong was basically a Trojan horse for the CIA. It’s genuinely heartbreaking. He was brought in to serve an interest that was completely contrary to his own sense of what was right or wrong. He would have been horrified [if he knew].” #Africa

theafricareport.com/126465/la-vie-…
As the ‘Goodwill Jazz Ambassador’ for the US in newly-independent Congo in October 1960, Armstrong sat at a table with his wife, and an individual he believed to be a US diplomat in Léopodville.

This was the beginning of a very different African tour.
According to The Guardian, Louis Armstrong thought he was representing his country as a Goodwill Ambassador in the Congo.

He was completely unaware that he was being used as a ‘Trojan horse’ by the CIA officer, to gain access to intelligence.
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Jan 5
In 1993, Sen. Claiborne Pell, (Senate Foreign Relations Committee) toned down the 1959 anti-#communist law.

#JFK's Secretary of State Dean Rusk described the resolution as “one of the wildest kinds of cold war kind of thing you ever seen in your life.”

link.medium.com/yalvBNXWkwb
Pell deleted the list of “captive nations,” some of which (“Idel-Ural”;“Cossackia”) were “invented in the Nazi propaganda ministry,” according to George Kennan, the architect of anti-Soviet “containment strategy.” Sen. Pell removed references to “Communist Russian imperialism.”
The Cold War was over, but not for all. The NCNC vigorously denounced Sen. Pell’s amendment. The organization requested Congressional hearings on “our inadequate policies in East Europe and Siberia,” apparently in order to promote the goal of breaking up the Russian Federation.
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Jan 5
As you know, the German Parliament voted unanimously last month to condemn #Russia for the Holodomor famine in #Ukraine, calling it “genocide.”

This series of articles by ⁦@WSWS_Updates⁩ demolishes the age-old #Nazi propaganda fable. wsws.org/en/articles/20…
The claim that #Stalin deliberately organized a famine in 1932 in order to exterminate the Ukrainian nation stems from the arsenal of #Nazi & OUN-B falsifications of history, as Clara Weiss proves in detail in two articles published this week on the @WSWS_Updates website.
The claim was used by the Ukrainian fascists during #WWII to justify their cooperation with the #Nazis.

It was advocated, among others, by the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), led by Stepan #Bandera, who collaborated with Nazis in the actual genocide of millions.
Read 5 tweets
Jan 4
Over half a decade, dozens of CIA operatives took part in PROJECT RED SOX.

#Ukraine’s bloody insurgency was the operation’s centerpiece. And it was in Ukraine that, as one scholar wrote, the CIA saw one of its “most pronounced failures of the Cold War.”

politico.com/news/magazine/…
Yet, back in Washington, concerns started to grow. On the one hand, there was the reality of who the US government was actually linking up with: #NazisInUkraine
The CIA’s new friends, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, had already been linked directly to #Nazi atrocities in the region.

“They were Nazis, pure and simple,” one CIA operations chief said. “Worse than that, because a lot of them did the Nazis’ dirty work for them.”
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Jan 4
In 1945, PLAN TOTALITY envisioned a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union with 20 to 30 atomic bombs.

It earmarked 20 Soviet cities for obliteration in a nuclear first strike: (list of cities in thread 🧵) 👇🏽 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_Tota…
Moscow, Gorky, Kuybyshev, Sverdlovsk, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Saratov, Kazan, Leningrad, Baku, Tashkent, Chelyabinsk, Nizhny Tagil, Magnitogorsk, Molotov, Tbilisi, Stalinsk, Grozny, Irkutsk, and Yaroslavl were all US nuclear targets in 1945.
However, this was impossible to carry out in 1945, because the United States didn’t have enough nukes (yet) to carry out the bombing campaign against the Soviet Union.

Imagine if they had enough bombs!
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