70th Anniversary Of The Liberation Of Auschwitz By The Red Army- Jan 27, 1945 Video

70 years ago, on January 27, 1945, the Russians liberated the Nazi Auschwitz extermination and concentration camp in Poland.

The 322nd Rifle Division of the Red Army took disturbing footage of the camp where 1.1 million men, women and children were starved, dehumanized, tortured, experimented on and slaughtered.

Snippets in the video below show piles of skeletal bodies scattered around and in mass graves, piles of teeth, eyeglasses, clothing,  shoes, suitcases, personal belongings.



Here's a 52 minute video that documents the liberation, including more Red Army footage.

I would like to think that showing this kind of footage to every Holocaust denier might somehow change their minds, but I doubt it would have any effect. And for those people who dare claim that the Palestinian people are undergoing a genocide, get real! There is no comparison.

What was done to these Jews and others (including Jehovah's Witnesses, gypsies, political prisoners, homosexuals and others) was beyond inhumane. There are no words to describe it.

We must never forget. We must never allow this to happen again.  This is why ISIS must be stopped.

Islamist Terrorism Today A Result Of Soviet Anti-Israel/U.S. Campaign, Claims Ion Mihai Pacepa

According to Romanian defector Ion Mihai Pacepa (who switched sides in 1978), the Soviet Union's anti-American, anti-Israeli propaganda campaign 40 years ago in the Middle East is responsible for international Islamist terrorism today.

In his new book, "Disinformation," he and his co-author, U.S. scholar Ronald Rychlak, claim that under the leadership of Yury Andropov, the Soviet KGB helped sow the seeds of today's anti-American and anti-Israeli hatred in the Arab and Muslim world by initiating a sophisticated and covert propaganda campaign in the early 1970s.

Andropov, who led the Soviet spy agency from 1967 until he became Soviet leader in 1982, was "the father of a new disinformation era which revived anti-Semitism and generated international terrorism against the United States and Israel," Pacepa and Rychlak write.

Wow. If true, Russia is also suffering the consequences, with their very own problems with terrorism.

Read more on RFE/RL, which interviewed  Pacepa through an intermediary. Apparently, he is still protected by the CIA.

The ratings of the book are rather interesting. With the few on Amazon, people have either hated it or loved it.

Similar Nazi and Soviet Propaganda Posters- Gallery

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty has posted some decades-old posters of Nazi and Soviet Union propaganda posters that are staggeringly similar.

With their emphasis on totalitarianism, rigid ideology, and personality cults, it's safe to say that Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union had many common characteristics. Both regimes also had great faith in propaganda to promote their political ideas. This comparative collection of Nazi and Soviet posters compiled by the website gulag.ipvnews.org appears to indicate that the two authoritarian systems also had an uncannily similar aesthetic and approach to graphic design.

And for a similar totalitarian, rigid ideology that happens to come in the form of a religion, you have this Palestinian adopting the same 'Sieg Heil' salute as above.

For the 6 other posters: RF/ERL