Bernie Reeves, editor and publisher of Metro Magazine and the founder of the annual Raleigh Spy Conference cannot say enough about this new PBS series: World War II: Behind Closed Doors ? Stalin, The Nazis and the The West.
It is so good that Bernie cannot believe it is on leftist PBS.
Could it be the Gauleiters of the Left – who assiduously guard the real truth about the USSR ? have been caught napping? Or is the series World War 11: Behind Closed Doors ? Stalin, The Nazis and the The West the dawning of a new era finally heralding long-ignored revelations about the human carnage under the Soviet communists? The program is such a surprise it takes a moment to believe it is really happening. Having dedicated two decades to exposing to the public in columns – and via the Raleigh Spy Conference – that the real story of the 20h century is lying there available in the record, I can hardly contain myself.
The first of the three-part program was shown last Wednesday night with the second part airing tomorrow from 9 to 11 pm on WUNC-TV.
As Bernie describes the production,
It is a stunning visual accomplishment, presenting the best production values I?ve ever seen on television. Period automobiles deliver the players – gussied up in authentic Nazi and Soviet uniforms – to Kremlin dining rooms where they dine in Czarist splendor, with footmen and butlers delivering steaming plates of haute cuisine; or take care of business in offices and conference rooms outfitted to the smallest detail in mid-century furnishings. Maps and newsreels and lucid photography literally draw viewers into the moments that signal death for thousands among the millions who perished at the hands of what even Hitler called an ?international guild of criminals?.
Every student knows or should know that the Nazi-Soviet Pact allowed Hitler to invade Poland unmolested by the Soviet Army. What has been one of the best kept secrets from our students for every generation since WWII is that the Soviets invaded Poland from the east as well as a invading its neighbor to the north, Finland.
Bernie describes the way the program covers the event including the little known massacre of Polish military officers in the Katyn Forest.
The massacre of 17,000 Polish military officers held prisoner in the Katyn Forest in occupied Poland is presented in chilling detail. Night after night, several hundred are removed from three different prisons and trucked to secret facilities where they are met by Soviet executioners draped in leather aprons and gloves for the evening?s work ? a pistol shot to the back of the head. But Stalin and his gang are just getting started, as we will learn in future episodes. And there is after all a war going on, but with a twist. Hitler, after arranging the Ribbentrop-Molotov agreement to destroy Poland ? and allowing secret codicils for the parties to control Eastern Europe ? wheels around and attacks his erstwhile ally.
Why does Bernie believe this is such an important landmark for public television?
How does history depict this despicable state of affairs? It hasn?t had a chance to. The keepers of the communist flame in the US won the decisive battles by discrediting any attempt to expose the truth about the communists ? from Whittaker Chambers to Joe McCarthy. Relying on agents and fellow travelers in government, the media and on campus, American communists and sympathizers won the hearts and minds of the intellectual community in the West. KGB political agents also used the United Nations and a host of non-government organizations to perpetuate the big lie about the USSR. Even after the collapse of the ?evil empire?, they continue to fight for their tainted cause, stating that communism is still the best form of government, even if the USSR had a few problems ? like the murder of millions.
That?s why the series on Stalin and the Nazis and the West is a watershed event, worthy of high hosannas. The truth is out and it is based and verified by recently unassailable declassified documents. I don?t think the Left can put this series back in the bottle, but we know they will try.
I agree with Bernie. I saw parts of the first program and it is fantastic. Don’t miss it and tell your friends.
Although I remain skeptical about how the leftists at PBS will handle Churchill?
