Oliver Stone's "Untold History" of the United States Has Been Told 10,000 Times Before, By Cranks, Conspiracy Theorists, & Communist Agents

Stone's 10 part rehabilitation of the Soviet Union's besmirched reputation is playing on Showtime (a division of CBS).

It's a lie from front to back. As Mohnihan notes, there's nothing "untold" about this. It's the same crap that Gore Vidal and Noam Chomsky and the rest of them have been saying since 1945. Every horrible thing the Soviet Union has ever done was done defensively in response to something the US did, or, more often, done defensively in response to something they feared the US would do.

See, they were just trying to be a peaceful aggressive worldwide insurrectionist movement, combined with a peaceful nationalistic expansionist Empire, and the US just kept threatening and "encircling" them with hostility and so they did some things which they're not proud of but you know, we had them against the wall, or we threatened to have them against the wall at some future point.

posted by Ace at 02:10 PM

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