December 4th 2008
The Lies They Teach - #19
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oday we turn to the 19th chapter of Larry Schweikart’s 48 Liberal Lies about American History (That You Probably Learned in School) - which C-SM presents in the hope that you’ll buy the book - especially for any high school or college-age kids in your acquaintance who need to understand how liberal history profs are teaching revisionist lies to pollute the minds of the next generation.
Lie #19 - The Rosenbergs Were Not Spies And Were Wrongfully Executed
Although they were not major spies and the information they revealed was not important, the Rosenbergs were executed, to the consternation of many liberals in the United States and elsewhere. - Mark C. Carnes and John A. Garraty, American Destiny
Funny. If they weren’t spies and their trial was so tainted, you’d think more people would be consternated by the Rosenbergs’ execution than just liberals. Weren’t we all outrages when O.J. was freed? Didn’t the conviction of border guards Ignacio Ramos Jose Compean raise hackles across political persuasions? Or, as Schweikart puts it,
Has there ever been any Communist, anywhere, who was guilty of anything. Reading liberal historians, it would seem not.
The Rosenberg’s trial established that they provided Soviet intelligence agents with notes and a sketch on the lens device of the Nagasaki bomb, which allowed the USSR to speed its atomic weapons program up by at least five years. What experts? How about the trial judge (a Jew, by the way, so don’t go all “Bigotry!” on me):
I consider your crime worse than murder …. [by] putting into the hands of the Russians the A-bomb years before our best scientists predicted Russia would perfect the bomb has already caused, in my opinion, the Communist aggression in Korea, with the resultant casualties exceeding 50,000 ….
Someone a bit closer to the case than even the judge, Nikita Khrushchev, also weighed in on the value of the Rosenberg’s treason:
According to ex-premier of the USSR Nikita Khrushchev, who quoted his spymaster Vyacheslam Molotov, the Rosenbergs “provided very significant help in accelerating the production of our atom bomb.”
Of course, treason is treason, and it matters not a whit whether the Rosenbergs speeded the Soviet WMD program or not.
Revisionist historians (and some frequent commenters on this site, I presume) have the Venona project to rebut, should they defend the innocence of the Rosenbergs. Venona, a long-running cryptanalysis project focused on the former Soviet intelligence agencies, has confirmed that the Rosenbergs were convicted for much more than merely “being Communists.” Further, it shows that Soviet agents whipped up the defense of the Rosenbergs and the demonstrations against their convictions.
Venona identified Julius, code name “Liberal” [heh]; showed that he was an active spy recruiter; and … [m]ore important, Venona decryptions identified Ethel as equally active in recruiting spies as Julius.
Faced with all this, even previously staunch leftist defenders of the Rosenbergs, like Radosh and Milton, could not deny Julius’ guilt and were left pleading that Ethel’s execution was improper and unfair. But it’s clear from the evidence that at a minimum she was a recruiter of spies for the Soviets, and that she actively supporter her husband’s treasonous work, which makes her guilty of treason as well.
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The Lies They Teach #11 And #12
The Lies They Teach: #9 And #10
The Lies They Teach - #8
The Lies They Teach: #6 And #7
The Lies They Teach: #4 And #5
The Lies They Teach: #1 - #3
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December 14th, 2008 at 9:00 am
No Communist is ever guilty of anything. Ever. We understand that. Yeesh! Because the MSM tells us so!Funny how the Venona Project was kept from FDR’s notice. So infiltrated was his administration by Commies that the Project honchos knew he’d let the information slip and the Soviets would then be informed. So they never told FDR about it, and the Soviets never knew. Radosh’s book - The Rosenberg FIle - was a tough book to read, but valuable as he reveals their complicity (even if he still thinks Ethel was over-charged, as it were) and the solid evidence brought against them. The Leftists can whine about the unfairness of it all, but the Rosenbergs were dangerous traitors responsible for many deaths.