Tag: propaganda

The Blame Game is always the Propaganda of the Victors

During the early 1920s, there was heated debate in the Commons at Westminster about England’s guilt at charging the defeated Germans with the most heinous barbarities imaginable. Finally, the Weimar Republic was the recipient of a heartfelt apology from the Westminster regime exonerating the German side of committing atrocities. It was conceded that war propaganda for the purpose of swaying public opinion had no place in post-war Europe. 

Victor’s World War II Propaganda is Pole-Axed

Victors’ propaganda disseminated by palace publishers and on-message media has created the illusion that Poland being far weaker than Hitler’s Reich was the vulnerable prey for ‘the Hitler hyena’. The same propaganda was spread after the Reich’s pre-emptive strike on Stalin’s despotic regime which had as is now known an army of 4.6 million poised to overwhelm Europe before the German pre-emptive strike.

Press-ganged soldiers who fight only to escape poverty

World War II veterans welcome the respect that comes with their once having been a member of the armed forces. This is a normal human trait but chances are they were not volunteers. Conscripts, many of them in their teens, were press-ganged into the armed forces. If there was genuine enthusiasm for the war then conscription would be neither necessary nor desirable.

Stage-Managed Western Democracies in Crisis

There were times when the people of the so-called democracies needed true and principled leadership? During and after the Wall Street transfer of Imperial Russia to the Bolsheviks (1917-1922). The counter-revolution that could have prevented Bolshevism was ruthlessly suppressed by the double-dealing ‘democracies’.