The Truth About Victory Day
Trump at His Usual Bombastic Self
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So, this is the 80th Anniversary of Victory Day. President Trump, apparently a world famous historian, recently stated that the United States almost single-handedly defeated Nazi Germany. Even though Winston Churchill, leader of the British, said that the Soviet Union tore the guts out of the Nazis. Likewise, our President Roosevelt pointed out that the first major defeat in battle was Stalingrad where the Germans and their allies, such as the Romanians, Italians and about 8 countries total were surrounded and killed or captured. But Trump knows better. This day matters for me because my grandmother told me that most of her family in Lithuania died due to the invasion of Lithuania. The Russians crushed 80% of the German war machine. But Trump knows better.
In 1943, the former US Ambassador, Joseph Davies, spoke publicly in the Warner Brothers film, Mission to Moscow, that if the Germans had defeated Russia, the Axis powers of Germany, Japan and Italy, would have conquered all of Asia, control of its resources. And the United States would have lost the war. The petty boycott by the US of Russia's Victory Day celebration is an insult Franklin Roosevelt himself. He envisioned an end to Western exploration and colonialism and an uplifting of all humanity. Instead, his preferred successor, Henry Wallace was removed, Truman installed against the will of the Democratic Party base, us 99%. The result was 80 years of Cold War, and endless war. And deteriorating social conditions, gutting of social safety net, deindustrialization, etc.
It was the Soviet union that forestalled that for a time. And, likewise, John F. Kennedy recognized the hardship of Russian people.
Funny how Presidents like Roosevelt and Kennedy are gotten rid of, with only hostility to Russia being the result.
We create our own enemies. Or I should say, 'the real owners' of our country convince you to believe who is your enemy. It's they, who are.