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Originally Posted by Gayle
Also, if you read the article about Will Kaufman, it says that Woody Guthrie may have been pro-Stalin to start off with but completely changs his view. I quote this from the article in the Guardian.
'It was in California that Guthrie's eyes opened to his own racism, according to the book. It details a turning point in 1937, when Guthrie – after he had played the appallingly racist song Run, Nigger, Run on the air – received a "politely incandescent" letter from a young black college student.
Guthrie was so shaken by it, he read out the letter on the airwaves the next day, apologised profusely, ripped the song sheet to shreds and swore he would never use the N-word again. He went on to become one of the most committed civil rights activists of his generation.'
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What's that got to do with his hero worship of Stalin? He still carried on being blindly pro-Stalin after that. When Hitler and Stalin cosied up together, that was simply Stalin being pro-peace. Of course when Adolf turned on his beloved Stalin, he was all for going to war against the fascists. Pity he couldn't have been as supportive when Hitler declared war on us, but of course we were just imperialists to be thrown to the wolves. Then shortly afterwards, when Stalin cynically invaded Eastern Poland, why, he was just liberating the place! As he sang in one of his songs: "Stalin stepped in and gave the land back to the farmers."
In my eyes if you blindly support mass murderers, you're a plonker, whether you're Sir Oswald Mosley or Woody Guthrie, makes no difference.
