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Correcting WWII history: How the USA erased the USSR victory over Nazi Germany - with Peter Kuznick

Moderate Rebels

Moderate Rebels

Foreignpolicy, Politics, War, Journalism, Middleeast, News, News Commentary

4.7673 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

The Soviet Union played the leading role in defeating Nazi Germany in World War II, but the US government has tried to erase its unimaginable sacrifice. Historian Peter Kuznick discusses the real history of WWII, and how 80% of Nazis were killed on the Eastern Front with the USSR.

We also address the new cold war on Russia and China, and the possibility for peace, then and now.

VIDEO: youtube.com/watch?v=ctp5a21Mtvs

(Interview recorded on May 14, 2020)

Transcript

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0:00.0

On 9-11, the United States lost almost 3,000 people, and we quickly invaded two countries,

0:10.9

and then got militarily involved in country after country, basically upset the entire world in response.

0:17.8

But the Soviet loss in World War II is the equivalent of one 9-11 a day every day

0:24.7

for 24 years, one a day for 24 years. And so, as President Kennedy said in his American

0:31.9

University of- How many hundreds of Giuliani's would be created by that? I mean, that would be a

0:36.2

nightmare.

0:51.2

Kennedy says at the commencement address at American University in 63 that what the Soviets suffered was the equivalent of the entire United States east of Chicago being destroyed.

0:56.8

So we have to understand, you know, put this in some context, what the Soviets suffered in World War II, which is why the way the United States treated them after the war is so

1:03.1

outrageous.

1:04.1

And still today.

1:05.1

And forgivable.

1:07.1

I'll never apologize for the United States of America.

1:11.6

Ever.

1:12.6

I don't care what the facts are.

1:14.6

Why are we going to sit down and talk to these quote-unquote moderate rebels?

1:18.6

Who are the truly moderate rebels?

1:20.6

The search for the moderate rebel.

1:22.6

Do these moderate rebels exist? exist.

1:33.9

This is moderate rebels. I'm Ben Norton, joined by my co-host, Max Blumenthal,

1:39.1

still in quarantine in Washington, D.C.

1:42.0

And this past week was the 75th anniversary of Nazi Germany's surrender in World War II,

1:50.2

an absolutely historic monumental occasion.

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