i had some interesting acquaintances growing up that talked about this. Started reading stalins war - which is a bit of a 'counter-culture' book premised on this, but is well reseourced with credible, if low-volume sources.
Now reading target:patton, and the peripheral theme touches on the subject with even more highly credible sources.
Mccarthy's cold war era critique of marshall 'america's retreat from victory' is very well researched and its conclusions really hard to argue with.
Bottom line, people dont have a clue how significantly the soviet union controlled our war policy, economic policy, and early post war politics. Damn near the entire state dept., treasury dept., and white house staff were all soviet spies. Even the oss. The hull memo forcing japan down the path to the pacific war was written by a soviet agent to provoke a pacific war. Lend lease was designed to destroy the british empire and transfer the world to stalin.
I had always wondered about many things that made no sense growing up as a cold war child. Movies, history books, conventional wisdom seemed to paint the picture that we fought the war in the most sensible way but it never made much sense to me, especially as i began to learn about the true economic dominance we had started building by mid 42.
Given the success of the chinese playbook in undermining this country over the last 30 years, i think this topic is highly current as well.
Some of my posts have not been popular here. But I encourage everyone to read these books and reflect. It is no dishonor to our greatest generation to try to better understand why their brilliance and sacrifices turned into the cold war world.
Similarly, it is no dishonor to todays great americans to understand how our current leadership has also been subverted.
Now reading target:patton, and the peripheral theme touches on the subject with even more highly credible sources.
Mccarthy's cold war era critique of marshall 'america's retreat from victory' is very well researched and its conclusions really hard to argue with.
Bottom line, people dont have a clue how significantly the soviet union controlled our war policy, economic policy, and early post war politics. Damn near the entire state dept., treasury dept., and white house staff were all soviet spies. Even the oss. The hull memo forcing japan down the path to the pacific war was written by a soviet agent to provoke a pacific war. Lend lease was designed to destroy the british empire and transfer the world to stalin.
I had always wondered about many things that made no sense growing up as a cold war child. Movies, history books, conventional wisdom seemed to paint the picture that we fought the war in the most sensible way but it never made much sense to me, especially as i began to learn about the true economic dominance we had started building by mid 42.
Given the success of the chinese playbook in undermining this country over the last 30 years, i think this topic is highly current as well.
Some of my posts have not been popular here. But I encourage everyone to read these books and reflect. It is no dishonor to our greatest generation to try to better understand why their brilliance and sacrifices turned into the cold war world.
Similarly, it is no dishonor to todays great americans to understand how our current leadership has also been subverted.
