Comments on: “Only Victims”

By: Kevin P

Kevin P — Tue, 31 May 2005 18:36:27 +0000

Roger:

This is something I have said before but the failure of the left to put the support of Stalin and the USSR on trial is one of the reasons that it is still chic in some quarters to wear the hammer and cycle or to bear the images of the Communist heroes of the past, Che for example. If you wear the swastika you are correctly shunned and considered part of the fringe. Hollywood continues to spew out the myth that somehow the Soviet Union and all it stood for do not deserve the same treatment. Even as late as a year or two ago Hollywood put out a love poem to Frida Kahlo. This is the woman who had a picture of Stalin put in her coffin for burial. I am not an artist and I am not going to pass judgement on her art but if Picasso had been buried with a picture of Hitler in his coffin his life would not be celebrated. Yet Hollywood ignores the fact that many of their heroes supported one of the greatest murderers of all time. And that some of them would have pushed for a Moscow led revolution for this and many other countries.For some it was a lark and meant nothing. For others it was a life long passion.

By: syn

syn — Tue, 31 May 2005 04:38:05 +0000

I’ve always looked upon Kazan’s “On the Waterfront” as capturing the true essence of the industry from which he was ultimately evicted simply because he took a stand against those very same thugs who intimidated him into following the collective communist Hollywood whole.

By: Sandy P

Sandy P — Tue, 31 May 2005 03:55:56 +0000

Oops, I wanted to include maybe Roger can confirm the bits he knows?

By: Sandy P

Sandy P — Tue, 31 May 2005 03:54:44 +0000

Terrye, ask and ye shall receive, one man’s opinion.

How Ronald Reagan Cleaned the Communists from the Screen Actors Guild and effectively ended the Communist Party in Hollywood.

http://oraculations.blogspot.com/2004/06/1-four-trillion-deficitronald-reagans.html#comments

By: erp

erp — Tue, 31 May 2005 01:17:21 +0000

I’ll look forward to your review.

By: RBMN

RBMN — Tue, 31 May 2005 00:51:14 +0000

Like bedwetting, it’s only embarrassing for people if they’re still doing it (or are still Communists in the 1950s) when they’re 40 years old–not if they were just a bedwetter (or Communist) once in their youth. I think in most cases what they didnít want known is, they were still Communists twenty years later and couldn’t be trusted to be loyal to the United States.

By: chuck

chuck — Tue, 31 May 2005 00:39:43 +0000

Roger,

Where did Clive get the quote from you?

By: Terrye

Terrye — Tue, 31 May 2005 00:29:48 +0000

My father was not a political man but he used to say that there were communists in Hollywood. It was just a matter of fact to him entaling no real judgment.

I think we forget that just because it is a witch hunt, it does not follow that there are never any witches.

I know I used to wonder about Reagan’s part in all that.