While mass killers get away with their heinous crimes, if they're on the left.
German political parties bulge with officials who were informers for the former East German Communist secret police, the Stasi. Germany’s democratic socialist party, Die Linke (“Left Party”), has happily admitted to leadership positions those who, like Gregor Gysi, held high places in the Soviet-style Communist regime...
Germany’s former foreign minister Joschka Fischer began his career as a bomb-throwing leftist terrorist. This inconvenient fact hardly ever comes up in the German mainstream media. Nor has the German left become a model of tolerance since Fischer’s success as a media darling 20 years ago. At a recent party meeting Die Linke discussed what should be done to eliminate the “influence of old white men.”
We might contrast how the Germans are harassing senile workers who were stenographers in the Third Reich with post-Soviet Russia’s treatment of Communist mass murderers. In 1991 Lazar Kaganovich, a deputy premier under Stalin, died peacefully in bed in Moscow at the age of 97. To my knowledge no attempt was made after the fall of the Soviet government to prosecute Kaganovich, who ranked as one of Europe’s most villainous mass killers. Among his evil deeds, Kaganovich was charged with carrying out Stalin’s collectivization of agriculture in the Ukraine, an assignment that resulted in millions of deaths through starvation in the famine of 1932-33. Later during the Great Purge, which started in 1936, Kaganovich was instrumental in causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands more people. His crimes were comparable to those of any Nazi mass murderer, yet there was no international call sounded for his prosecution or imprisonment...
There is no limit as to how far the onetime lackeys of totalitarian regimes can rise in today’s woke versions of democracy.
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