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Communism’s First Defeat
« on: August 14, 2020, 05:36:57 pm »
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/08/communisms-first-defeat-john-radzilowski/

Communism’s First Defeat
A century ago a citizen army stopped a Soviet takeover of Europe.
Frontpagemagazine
Aug 14, 2020
John Radzilowski

Communism arose in a time of pandemic and war. In 1918, the Bolshevik party led by V. I. Lenin seized control of Russia amid a world numbed by the slaughter of a world war and the seemingly unstoppable spread of influenza. Promising a utopia of equality, the communist message proved seductive to many in Europe and America. In the summer of 1920, having defeated his most serious internal foes, Lenin decided to launch a full-scale invasion of Europe to spread communism all across the continent.

Soviet communism proved anything but a utopian “worker’s paradise.” The Bolsheviks brutally eliminated their political opponents on both left and right, sparking a four-year civil war that killed several million people in Russia and neighboring lands. Tsarist autocracy had a justified reputation for cruelty and in the half century preceding the Revolution, it had executed almost 6000 people and exiled tens of thousands to Siberia. Yet in just four years, Lenin’s communist regime carried out at least thirty times as many death sentences, not counting hundreds of thousands murdered in extrajudicial killings. Despite this, support for the Soviets in the West grew as left-wing groups mobilized to help the Bolsheviks abroad and imitate their success at home.

By early 1920, White armies were in full retreat and Western resolve to oppose communism faded. To Russia’s west, Germany’s defeat and Austria-Hungary’s collapse allowed the emergence of newly independent nations from Finland to Hungary. As long as White armies had posed a threat to the Bolshevik regime, Lenin had been content to let these new countries alone. Now, with a reorganized and victorious Red Army numbering over 5 million he turned his eyes West. His main objective was Germany. The birthplace of Karl Marx had been disrupted by revolts and unrest and had one of Europe’s strongest communist movements. Germany appeared ripe for revolution that could be easily achieved with the help of the Red Army. In the spring of 1920, the Soviets issued orders for a massive western offensive.

To reach central Europe, however, the Red Army would first have to overrun newly independent Poland which recovered its independence in 1918 after 123 years of foreign subjugation. With its economy and infrastructure wrecked by four years of war and occupation, Poland was in rough shape and its situation was made even worse by widespread famine and epidemics of influenza and typhus. Its leader, socialist Józef Piłsudski, saw a resurgent Russia under Lenin as his country’s greatest threat and tried without success to create a confederation with the Baltic States and Ukraine to resist communist expansion. Despite this, the Poles were determined to resist Soviet invasion.

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Re: Communism’s First Defeat
« Reply #1 on: August 14, 2020, 05:54:23 pm »
This may be part of why Stalin was willing to cut a deal with Hitler. Russia gobbled up eastern Poland in 1939 and did not disgorge what it had conquered when WW2 ended in 1945. He just hacked off a chunk of Germany and tacked it onto Poland. Whether Truman or Clement Atlee protested the move, I'm not sure.
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Re: Communism’s First Defeat
« Reply #2 on: August 14, 2020, 07:32:59 pm »
Last night I heard a younger gal, from Venezuela, saying she felt that too many Americans don't understand life under socialism.

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Re: Communism’s First Defeat
« Reply #3 on: August 15, 2020, 11:49:13 am »
This may be part of why Stalin was willing to cut a deal with Hitler. Russia gobbled up eastern Poland in 1939 and did not disgorge what it had conquered when WW2 ended in 1945. He just hacked off a chunk of Germany and tacked it onto Poland. Whether Truman or Clement Atlee protested the move, I'm not sure.

That land grab deal was agreed upon by FDR and Churchill earlier in the war. Truman and Atlee confirmed it. Too bad we did not turn Patton loose on the Red Army. The Soviets were almost out of manpower and logistically they were heavily dependent upon the US for trucks fuel and spare parts to keep the trucks running.