SwiftVets.com

fortdixlover · Last edited by fortdixlover on Sat May 22, 2004 3:54 pm; edited 5 times in total

Although this board was fathered to share a [negative] point of view by a specialized group of veterans from swift boat service about one of their former members, Mr. Kerry, as president of the U.S., it has become a focal point in the ongoing culture war reignited by the VVAW and other leftist groups in the U.S. in the 1960's.

Inasmuch as this movement came into being with an almost fully-cooked ideology, methods, propraganda-oriented language, networking, etc., I want to share a point of view that many will find uncomfortable but fitting of the circumstances.

The Soviets spent an inordinate amount of effort and money on psyops, spies, propaganda (the KGB and Radio Moscow were HUGE enterprises). Their population, including that of their "satellite" countries, was well-versed in ideology as part of their elementary education, a situation almost nonexistent in the U.S. especially in the 1950's and 1960's. This is confirmed by speaking to some of my friends who had emigrated from those countries many years ago. Ideology (focusing on the great advantages of socialism and communism) was just another subject, even at grade and high school level.

It is my belief that the VVAW movement and other radical left-wing movements were likely spearheaded, nourished, encouraged, and supported through Soviet propaganda and subversion operatives, as a non-military way to damage the war effort of the U.S. against Communism. Supported by anti-US propaganda eminating from the Soviet "news" sources (Radio Moscow, Tass, other press agencies of the satellite countries), whose 'reports' frequently found their way into the U.S. media verbatim, the VVAW was most definitely a Fifth Column not only acting against the war, but also against capitalism, rule of law and western culture in general. Today's left are their heirs.

Note the confluence of anti-war groups, socialist "workers party" groups (e.g., A.N.S.W.E.R), openly socialist and communist-oriented university professors, and others (I leave out the bizarre inclusion of racist, female-apartheid, suicide-loving, neck-slicing, genocidal, nihilistic Islamists in this set, as I attribute that to creeping moral obtundation and insanity in the left in general.)

I'm not saying that Kerry was deliberately involved in this; he may have been a victim of it (as in the "useful idiot" concept I believe Lenin described).

Much as the Islamofascists have used America's open freedoms to infiltrate their views and their operatives, so the Soviets did back then. (It would have been impossible due to the closed nature of Soviet society for us to have done the reverse).

The U.S. has never quite recovered from the ideological injury on western culture inflicted by the Soviets. Like any psychological trauma, such damage takes a long time to heal. The continued salt in the wounds effected by the left (e.g., via the universities and news media they dominate) has not let this healing occur.

In addition to the VVAW FBI files, one wonders what newly opened Soviet-era archives in the countries of the former USSR will show.

hist/student · Lieutenant Joined: 09 May 2004 Posts: 243