It takes a true son of the Party to equivocate Guantanamo with the GuLag: Guantanamo, whose inmates gain weight while there and number fewer than the average number of people shot per month by the Bolsheviks during the Civil War. That was just in Leningrad, not the whole country. Stalin sent more people to the camps than INHABIT Iraq.
Regarding Abu Ghraib, if Lynndie England had been assigned to Lefortovo she'd have been granted a commission for what she did, not court-martialled.
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While I am sure I am not as learned as Mr.Radosh about the timeline of Pete Seegers life I believe... [MORE]
Vinnie Cangemi
Feb 29, 2008 01:13
"Time for Pete Seeger To Repent."
In my youth it was a communist's duty to openly "confess" his sins against the... [MORE]
Alan II
Feb 28, 2008 07:57
In my younger years I was a Seegerholic. I couldn't get enough of the man. I loved his music, his... [MORE]
E.M. Bennatan
Feb 19, 2008 04:43
Like Ron Radosh, I grew up admiring Pete Seeger and--as a folksinger myself--deplored the fact that the blacklist limited his... [MORE]
John B. Sprung
Sep 4, 2007 15:31
Hi Ron, forgive my ignorance, but have you vocally denounced Bush for the atrocities committed in Cuba and Iraq? [MORE]
James
Sep 4, 2007 14:01
It takes a true son of the Party to equivocate Guantanamo with the GuLag: Guantanamo, whose inmates gain weight while...
Ed
Sep 5, 2007 10:45
This is why I read The Sun...
Ed, please run for office... the higher the better! [MORE]
alan
Sep 9, 2007 20:56
Folks, Pete never advocated for a violent overthrow of the US government. He did support a socialist agenda and working... [MORE]
Lou Farrell
Sep 3, 2007 20:33
...and intellectual honesty to see that you have been wrong about something and to actually admit it. Kudos to Mr.... [MORE]
Audrey
Sep 3, 2007 19:50
all the self-righteous people of course will put down Pete for not having spoken up earlier--even though he is know... [MORE]
dvid still
Sep 3, 2007 19:02
Mr. Seeger has, however tardy the revelation, come to see the light. Ours is not to wonder why now but... [MORE]
Trotting Mercury
Sep 3, 2007 13:18
Seeger had hoped... that both Khrushchev and later Gorbachev would "open things up."
RD. Krushchev tried in his erratic half-hearted way,... [MORE]
Roger DesMoulins
Sep 2, 2007 17:56
I had the opportunity awhile back to work with Pete S. on a project. Although I disagreed with almost all... [MORE]
Tim Idd.
Aug 31, 2007 23:10
A friend in Estonia told me once that during the years of Soviet Occupation, twenty percent of the population disappeared,... [MORE]
George French
Aug 31, 2007 15:17
When the Conservatives of this country apologize for rolling into bed with Mussolini, Franco, and Hitler, then I'll look to... [MORE]
Grif
Sep 3, 2007 04:44
Seeger is, if nothing else, a mover, who throughout his life keeps moving right. And while he is way to... [MORE]
Ignatiur R Grace
Aug 31, 2007 14:56
Seeger may have been the most visible of a number of folksingers who dedicated themselves to criticising an imperfect West... [MORE]
Doug Huggins
Aug 31, 2007 13:52
It is wonderful, not to mention surprising, that Mr. Seeger will allow to criticism. Good for you, Mr. Seeger, and... [MORE]
Dan Davis
Aug 31, 2007 13:08
While Seeger is to be commended for his belated admission of remaining silent about Stalin's horrors, read more carefully, he... [MORE]
Mike Perry, Inkling Books, Seattle
Aug 31, 2007 11:43
Better late than never. Thumbs up to Mr. Seeger [MORE]
Sean
Aug 31, 2007 11:31
Dear Ron,Thanks for the update on Pete. As is occurring in my own life, as we get older it's important... [MORE]
George Fletcher
Aug 31, 2007 11:28
Total nonsense. Like a true aparatchik, he kept his mouth shut when it could have done any good, and only... [MORE]
tom
Aug 31, 2007 16:29
The song is a worthy effort. But the chance that Stalin had was when he took the wheel of Lenin's... [MORE]
Ed
Sep 6, 2007 10:10
When I was a kid in the 60's I learned to play the guitar with one of his books and... [MORE]
Don
Feb 28, 2008 09:25
I hate to ruin part of the premise of Ron Radosh's criticism, but Pete Seeger had, in fact, apologized for... [MORE]
Andy Buck
Aug 31, 2007 10:45
I find this moving. I have only met Pete Seeger once - at the Institute of Western American Culture in... [MORE]
Rob Perelli-Minetti
Aug 31, 2007 10:41
Had been living under communism through 1982 I've never dreamt that one day I'll have a warm feeling toward Pete... [MORE]
Tibor Csipan
Aug 31, 2007 09:46
I have always loved Pete's music, agree with his desire for social and civil rights, agreed with his right,... [MORE]
Steve Dickey
Aug 31, 2007 17:53
When ii first became a student at the High School of Music and Art in the early fifties I encountered... [MORE]
leo solomon
Sep 3, 2007 04:59
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