Long before Donald Trump entered the political scene (and was repeatedly and wrongly accused of being “Putin’s Puppet”), 100 years before, actually, forces in the United States, including Wall Street financiers and both Republicans and Democrats, had been involved in aiding and abetting the communists in Russia. Leon Trotsky lived in exile in New York City before the Bolshevik Revolution. In March of 1917, holding an American passport given to him by the Wilson Administration and a large amount of money, Trotsky boarded a ship in New York Harbor to eventually join with Lenin.
The Canadians detained Trosky and seized the ship after learning that Trotsky was going to get Russia out of the war. This would have freed up thousands of German soldiers to fight on the Western Front, where many Canadians were serving. When Wilson learned of Trotsky’s detainment, he demanded that the Canadians free Trotsky. The Canadians relented. After the Bolsheviks seized power, Wall Street bankers, using the Red Cross as a cover, went to Russia with large sums of money to help finance the revolution. The reign of terror under Lenin began.
After Lenin’s death, Stalin seized power and picked up where Lenin had left off with a vengeance. The U.S., under Franklin Roosevelt, established diplomatic relations with Stalin’s Russia. Roosevelt, despite overwhelming evidence of Stalin’s atrocities, had a political love affair with “Uncle Joe.” Pro-communist reporters like Walter Duranty of The New York Times sent stories to their papers praising Stalin to the hilt while overlooking the forced famine in Ukraine, which resulted in the deaths of millions of men, women, and children, as well as other atrocities.
During World War II, we not only sent Stalin millions of dollars’ worth of weapons and supplies, but we also gave them materials that made it possible for Russia to become a nuclear power. Major Racey Jordan, who was in charge of this project, made us aware of this treachery. His book From Major Jordan’s Diaries tried to warn the American people, but it was smothered.
Here is a link to a speech by Major Jordan: https://youtu.be/Z9eYS0mxtpQ?si=1iJdDiQekrkZWpwg
At the Yalta Agreement, Roosevelt not only handed Stalin the nations of Eastern Europe but agreed to forcefully hand over millions of people who had fled from the advancing Red Army. This dark chapter in our history, “Operation Keelhaul,” is a little known event even to many World War II historians. I made reference to “Operation Keelhaul’ in a letter to the “Brockton Enterprise” in 1988, and a survivor of this event reached out to me and gave me a firsthand narrative of this tragedy.
During the Cold War. President Johnson approved of sending supplies to satellites of the Soviet Union, some of which made their way to North Vietnam and were used to kill American soldiers.
During the Nixon Administration, the U.S. sent technology to the Soviets, making it possible for them to upgrade their nuclear missile system. The technology included miniature ball bearing from the Bryant Company in Springfield, VT. The company- the only one in the world at the time that made this ball bearing- initially refused to let the Soviets have them, but they relented due to the heavy hand of Henry Kissinger- who some believed was a Soviet Agent. This is from a Wikipedia article:
“ Bryant’s Soviet contracts continued to be controversial that same year. Bryant’s sale of 45 precision grinders enabled the USSR to improve missile accuracy and MIRV their ICBMs. Henry Kissinger quashed objections to the sale.
We also sent the material to build the world’s largest truck engine factory at the time, the Kama River factory, in Russia. Engines from these trucks came in handy when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. This gem comes right from the CIA’s website.
The late Professor Anthony Sutton documented this treachery in a series of books, including Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution, National Suicide: Military Aid To The Soviet Union, The Best Enemy Money Can Buy, and the three-volume book Western Aid to the Soviet Union 1917-1965.
Here is a link to a speech by Professor Sutton: https://youtu.be/9RNbM4tmKEY?si=jpz251XvRGGhUcsb
It always helps to make your case by finding those involved corroborating your research. In the early 2000s, I took a homeschool field trip with two of my children to the New England Air Museum in Windsor Locks, CT. In the museum lobby was a newsletter from United Technologies, the parent company of Sikorsky Aviation. It contained an article by Igor Sikorski Jr, the son of the aviation pioneer and patriot. In the article, Igor bragged about selling equipment to the Soviet bloc nations in the 1960s. I wrote to him and asked if he knew how many Americans died in Vietnam as a result of his equipment being sent from Eastern Europe to North Vietnam. For some strange reason, he never responded to my letter.
While doing research for the article, I pulled out a file of newspaper articles from the 1980s and early 1990s and found this gem:
That’s right. Soviet generals being lectured by General Colin Powell, an anti-Trumper who supported Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Biden.
When Russia invaded Ukraine, Biden, or more likely his handlers, banned the sale of Russian fossil fuels to the U.S., but he did not break off diplomatic relations, which we have had since the Franklin Roosevelt Administration. Practically every U.S. President from Wilson to Obama has done their utmost to cater to the Russian communists. The Democrats and their Republican Neo-Con allies like Liz Cheney and Adam Kissinger have labeled Trump as a “Putin’s Puppet” for wanting an end to the war in Ukraine. While most have rejected their false and ugly accusation, there are a large number of people who want to believe it.
I realize that simply exposing the misguided people who have bought into the “Putin’s Puppet” narrative will not likely change their positions. However, it will help give folks who oppose the war in Ukraine some much-needed historical background.
