What the great Harry Elmer Barnes called the “historical blackout” of unpleasant truths concerning the Second World War continues, not only in the former Soviet Union but here in the US. The Russians don’t want to contend with unseasonable facts revealed in such award-winning documentaries as The Soviet Story concerning Nazi-Soviet collaboration in the genocide of the Holocaust, or the unsettling “icebreaker” thesis of Viktor Suvorov to the Stalinist legend of the Great Patriotic War. Here in our dumbed down republic of letters (A, B, C, D, — all 17 of ’em) if it’s not on Facebook or they can’t … Continue reading WWII and the “Historical Blackout”