tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10853024.post1323825938791164870..comments2024-03-12T20:20:35.830-05:00Comments on Organizing Notes: HONORING PAUL & ESLANDA ROBESONBruce K. Gagnonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10845856861232395427noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10853024.post-1608803210016246742013-02-12T17:58:22.442-05:002013-02-12T17:58:22.442-05:00"Paul Robeson's steadfast campaign for c..."Paul Robeson's steadfast campaign for civil rights in America made his acquiescence to Stalinism all the more tragic. There were many American communists who recanted once they understood the nature of the crimes committed in the USSR. There remained, however, a psychological conflict among those who understood, yet whose pride or ideology culd not allow them to admit their error. Robeson's actions and speeches had justified, and therefore contributed to, the crimes of Stalinism, and for that at least, he was morally culpable."<br /><br />Tim Tzouliadis, "The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia," p. 327.<br /><br />If one were to pick the two biggest American villains in the tragedy that Tzouliadis so well describes, they would be Ambassador Joseph E. Davies and Robeson. In the memoirs of one of those American victims, Robert Robinson ("Black on Red: My 44 Years Inside the Soviet Union"), Robeson, who rebuffed the urgent appeal of his fellow black American, Robinson, to help him escape the Russian nightmare, Robeson was the biggest villain.ChefGaryDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14201668872695826528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10853024.post-17175441512759486792013-02-12T16:36:41.635-05:002013-02-12T16:36:41.635-05:00Oh, please.
Oliver Stone will now use this Stalin...Oh, please.<br /><br />Oliver Stone will now use this Stalin lover to paper over that murderous monster.<br /><br />Just because a person of color fell for the propaganda doesn't make him a hero. Just a fool.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com