The Issue: Oliver Stone’s treatment of the Cold War in his new “Untold History of the United States.”
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Kudos to Clifford May for exposing the mendacity of Oliver Stone’s current television series as nothing but a stale rehash of communist propaganda (“Stone-Faced Lies,” PostOpinion, Nov. 24).
Stone’s “McCarthyism in Reverse” is popular among the blame-America-first crowd, which has the colossal arrogance to claim that its story is never told.
Anti-American, Stalinist propaganda has held sway on far too many campuses since the ’60s and is the source of the contemporary scourge of political correctness.
People actually graduate from top-ranked universities without knowing anything about Stalin’s millions of victims because red-baiting is “uncool.”
But surrounding yourself with a halo of progressivism and condemning America while living off the fat of the land is so chic.
David Rabinovitz
Brooklyn
It is sad to see the way these writers rewrite history and kiss up to the communist, socialist line. Don’t they realize that they will be the first victims of the demise of free speech? I forgot — they are already espousing the party line.
Paul Alexander
Staten Island
May’s chilling account of the brutal Stalinist policies embraced in Stone’s anti-American views should be a reminder to Americans that government takeovers of private industry, forced government health care, redistribution of wealth, job-killing repression of industrial growth and a severe weakening of our military are but a few of President Obama’s policies that could place this great nation on a terrible downward path.
John W. Fox
Galloway, NJ
Shouldn’t the fact that Stone is free to put forth a movie like this prove that a free and open society trumps communism?
Joseph Stalin’s ideas and ambitions caused the deaths of untold millions. To find any redeeming qualities in this man is ludicrous.
If Stone is pushing this idea to be controversial and plug his movie, that’s one thing, but he can do a lot of damage.
There are many uninformed individuals who will buy into this made-up history.
We have someone in the White House who many believe leans toward the system that Stone finds so intriguing. Michael Sara
Scranton, Pa.