Democrats join Republicans in passing fascistic “Crucial Communism Teaching Act”
[Zbigniew] Brzezinski was a top US imperialist strategist for decades and security advisor to Democratic President Jimmy Carter. In addition to supporting the Shah’s counter-revolution in Iran and Central American death-squads, Brzezinski backed the arming of the Islamist Mujahedeen in Afghanistan.
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Finally, [Lee] Edwards helped found the right-wing group Young Americans for Freedom in 1960 and was a former chairman of the VOC. In an obituary posted last week, the VOC noted that Edwards “started or helped sustain key anti-Communist organizations, such as the National Captive Nations Committee, the Committee for a Free China, and the American Council for World Freedom.” Edwards worked on Barry Goldwater’s 1964 presidential campaign, taught at Georgetown University and was a fellow at the Heritage Foundation.
The legislation advanced by the VOC calls for teaching “that communism has led to the deaths of over 100,000,000 victims worldwide,” and that “1,500,000,000 people still suffer under communism.”
The 100 million figure is a lie that originated in The Black Book of Communism, a 1997 book by Stéphane Courtois, and other European academics who have distanced themselves from the volume following its publication due to the numerous errors and falsehoods contained within it. Courtois reached his outrageous figure by, among other things, counting Nazis who died fighting the Red Army during World War II as “victims of communism.”
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The legislation passed last week not only seeks to whitewash the crimes of Nazism, but to prepare students for future war with China. The bill demands that the curriculum focus on “past and present communist and totalitarian regimes,” namely, “the treatment of Uyghurs in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) by the People’s Republic of China” and the “increasingly aggressive posture by the People’s Republic of China toward Taiwan, a democratic friend of the United States.”
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United States Council for World Freedom (archived)
Background: The U.S. Council for World Freedom (USCWF) is the United States affiliate of the World Anti-Communist League (WACL). The first WACL branch in the U.S., the American Council for World Freedom (ACWF), was founded in 1970 by Lee Edwards. Edwards had worked with the Young Americans for Freedom.
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