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...Kang was put under house arrest, and later died. Khrushchev's opinion is that "most probably, Mao had him strangled or poisoned. Mao was capable of such things, just as Stalin was." Why did Stalin betray Kao Kang? Khrushchev's judgment is that the Soviet dictator figured that sooner or later Mao would have learned on his own that Kao Kang had been informing on him and, if that had happened, Mao could have accused Stalin of fomenting opposition to the Chinese government. "Stalin wanted to win Mao's trust and friendship, so he took reports about...
Solzhenitsyn regards the brutal fate of these returned P.O.W.s as one of the most frightful of Stalin's crimes. "They were called traitors, " he writes of them, "but they did not betray the motherland. The motherland betrayed them, and betrayed them three times." The first betrayal was Stalin's bumbling strategy, which nearly lost the war and allowed the Germans to capture vast numbers of prisoners. Then these Soviet P.O.W.s were virtually abandoned by Stalin and left to die in Nazi camps. Finally the survivors were lured home by the oft-repeated promise of forgiveness...
...Kissingers; I think the Kissingers pervert the meaning of a university. My disgust for Harvard is no longer so general. It is directed at the Kissingers and the Bundys and the McNamaras and their apologists who murder and lie and then smugly smirk behind the liberal values they betray...
...they're fightin tooth and claw to wipe it out. Jesus freaks are nothin compared to narcs, and especially local narcs. They're bible totin statute quotin freaks and in my opinion they are the lowest type of scumbag because they'll get in with you and then betray you. The only character out of the Bible they forget to cite is Judas...
Senator McGovern later faltered when he appeared in the Eagleton affair to betray the honesty he had earlier exemplified. But that honesty, not the plots of CREEP, won him the nomination. The Nixon campaign's dirty tricks did not determine the Democratic outcome. They did make it harder to unify the Democratic Party. And the cover-up of the pervasive corruption of the administration did deprive the American people of the knowledge that, according to recent polls, would have led them to reassess the relative merit of the candidates and reverse their verdict despite their misgivings about Senator McGovern...