Monday, December 11, 2017

When Donald Trump Falsifies History


By Nikos Mottas.





As for the Second World War (WW2), Trump is falsifying the historical truth too. Because, it was the Soviet Union - the Red Army and the people of the USSR- which actually defeated the Nazis. Someone must inform Trump about the epic battle of Stalingrad. Someone must tell him about the conquer of Berlin by the soldiers of the Red Army. 

The United States' government had declared war against Nazi Germany in 1941, but it didn't actively involved in warfare until 1944. The focus of the U.S. was on the Pacific Front, against the Japanese. By the time of the so-called "D-Day", the Red Army had already won major battles against the Nazis, bringing the frontline close to Berlin.


2. The U.S. President said that his country "put a man on the moon". Indeed, astronaut Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. However, the first person to journey into outer space wasn't an American, but a Soviet, Yuri Gagarin. Gagarin's spacecraft "Vostok" completed an orbit on the Earth on April 12, 1961.

Someone must inform President Trump- in case he doesn't know- that the world's first artificial satellite was "Sputnik-1" which was launched on October 4, 1957.

3. Donald Trump also said that the U.S. "brought communism to its knees". This is a major argument frequently used by the various apologists of capitalism, especially after the counter-revolutionary events of 1989-1991. Trump repeats this convenient- for imperialism- narrative about the supposed "triumph" of capitalism over socialism. However, the reality is far from the grandiose nonsense expressed by Mr. Trump and his like-minded.


International imperialism played its own role in the long-term strengthening and promotion of the the counter-revolutionary forces, but it wasn't an imperialist intervention that led to the overthrow of Socialism. The truth exists in the various deviations from the laws of socialist construction and the weaknesses in solving existing issues of Socialism with capitalist tools, which led to the prevalence of counter-revolution.