Comment 52681

By Undustrial (registered) - website | Posted December 06, 2010 at 00:49:27

Neville Chamberlain wasn't a pacifist. His opposition to Allied intervention in Nazi Germany wasn't based on high-minded ideals of peace. He, along with a good chunk of the American, British and French governments figured that Hitler would deal with Russia. And as most of the first year of the year (the "sitzkrieg" on the French front) was fought mainly on the Eastern front, they figured Hitler had the whole "communism" thing settled. And if we're going to be honest about who "won" that war, Stalin's communist forces played at least as large a role as the rest of the Allies combined. Would this be a plausible reason to support the Russian invasion of Afghanistan?

Those horrible leftists who oppose our current war were flocking in droves, illegally, from nations like Canada to the anti-fascist fronts of the Spanish Civil War in 1938 long before the Brits or Canadians engaged the Germans in battle. We canucks had our own battalion - the Mac-Paps (Mackenzie-Papineau), and they were recruited mainly through Union halls, the CCF (which later became the NDP) and the Communist party. Orwell, Hemingway and Picasso were a few of the passionate voices over this war. They returned to Canada after losing that war (Spain remained Fascist with US backing into the 1970s) expecting to go to jail. Instead, the federal agents who met them sought help, as they were the first of our nation to have engaged German Blitzkrieg in battle. This history, by the way, comes from a veteran speaking at an NDP event I was at.

To relate our current imperialistic misadventures in Iraq and Afghanistan to the fight against Hitler and Mussolini is like insultingly inaccurate to say the least.

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