If there is one aspect of politics that fires my ire as much as any it is the willingness, indeed, celerity with which the world’s Left swallowed the anti-Stalin awful offal that dripped from the mouth of Khrushchov in his Feb. 1956 20th Party speech.  Far too many on the Left not only accepted Nikita’s lying propaganda but that of others which followed and was even worse.  Did they ask for concrete proof? No!  Did they hear personal testimony that was subjected to cross-examination?  No!  Did they investigate the accusations themselves as opposed to going along with whatever hearsay, rumor, and/or gossip they were fed?  Again the answer is no.  Instead, like lemmings going over the cliff and children following the Pied Piper, they just acquiesced in whatever seemed to be the dominant theme on the world stage at that time.
         Any Left critic of the bourgeois media who has observed the degree to which the crypto-fascist Bushites and other reactionaries have been lying about American liberalism and the replies of liberals that have not been much better when it comes to veracity can easily draw the obvious conclusion.  If the rightist and liberal wings of American capitalism can be that deceptive, duplicitous, inaccurate, and hypocritical when it comes to descriptions of their fellow private property loving compatriots, it does not take a great deal of perspicacity to visualize what they will say when it comes to portrayals of someone who engineered extremely effective opposition to private ownership of the Means of Production, Distribution and Exchange, if not the most effective, namely, Joe Stalin.  If capitalist agents will lie profusely, grossly, and repeatedly about other capitalist agents regarding relatively secondary issues, how can there be any doubt that when it comes to the very existence of private ownership, they will employ any corrupt tactics deemed viable and concoct any scenarios imaginable to depict a highly effective opponent in the worst light possible.  Nothing will be out of bounds, absolutely nothing.  “Katy bar the door” really will be applicable.
         It is hard to decide which of two propaganda photos worshipped by the world’s capitalists was broadcast most via their lying media.  Was it Stalin lying on his bier while the Politburo stood stiff in respect in March 1953 or brainwashed youths chopping away at the Berlin Wall in Aug. 1991.  Capitalists and their despicable propagandists simply can’t get enough of either.  For them it is the mental equivalent of ideological ambrosia.