Winter in Moscow

Rating:
Summary: The Truth Behind Communism - Killers of 185,000,000 victims.
Review: Malcolm Muggeridge, a confirmed life-long Fabian, went to Moscow as a journalist to realize his dream of studying first-hand the wonders of this political-economic dictatorship that the NY Times correspondent had called "The Future". ("We have seen the future and it works!")

In a very short period, Muggeridge, an intelligent, politically savvy man, saw through the propaganda which hid to the world the all-pervading Terror, the economic disaster, the assasinations, the rape and thievery of the country's riches, the hunger-induced cannibalism, and the mountains of cadavers, all of this savagery carried out by a chosen few, who saw nothing wrong with the way that they, who controlled it all, were taking over and destroying the country, for their exclusive benefit.

Muggeridge saw legions of foreign, leftist radicals who were taking advantage of the real Russians, who were starving; he saw as well other regiments of "useful-idiots" who gained little from the cruel experiment, but rejoiced in the mystic "values" that they saw, which obscured to them the grim reality of the disaster that was taking place.

The book is historical fiction. Muggeridge tried to counter the damage to Freedom caused by the admiration of the cuckolded Western press, either seduced by what they did not understand or afraid for what might happen one day, should this perverted, absurd experiment that was Communism, triumph. To do so, from his lone position of weakness, against the clamor of socialists and internationalists who still today constitute the nucleus of the editors and managers who run what we erroneously believe is a free press, he was forced to trivialize what he saw, trying to achieve small gains for the truth, rather than be overwhelmed and steam-rollered by the lying leviathan.

That Muggeridge saw nothing trivial about the rape of a nation, is obvious by what he did upon his return to England and what his life became, after the highly educational, but terrifying experience he had just lived through. He immediately left the Fabian organizations he had belonged to all of his life; a politically-confirmed atheist, he became a Catholic; he gave speeches and explained to anyone who would listen to him, the evils of Communism; he wrote several books and tracts against this menace - although his voice was almost lost amidst the din of the Media, fawning all over itself to present favorably the lies and exaggerations of the communist savages, who had then, and retain today, certain elements of chic adored by those amongst us who enjoy every degeneracy that today has become "politically correct".

Mr.Muggeridge did his very best, with the meager tools he had been given, to staunch the flow of irrational propaganda that promised to flood the world to bring about Lenin's dreams of a world under the specter of communism, leading to the eventual liquidation of all religion, the eradication of ethics and morality, the removal of patriotism, and the assassination of anyone who dared oppose this universal Genocide - the worst ever perpetrated in all of history.

Unfortunately, our increasingly uneducated masses would not have understood the magnitude of the threat. Muggeridge was forced to feed us all the information piece-meal, diluted enough to be comprehensible for the average reader. He was not being silly; he was being intelligent and by measuring his words, making what small gains he could to an uncomprehending public.

Rating:
Summary: The Truth Behind Communism - Killers of 185,000,000 victims.
Review: Malcolm Muggeridge, a confirmed life-long Fabian, went to Moscow as a journalist to realize his dream of studying first-hand the wonders of this political-economic dictatorship that the NY Times correspondent had called "The Future". ("We have seen the future and it works!")

In a very short period, Muggeridge, an intelligent, politically savvy man, saw through the propaganda which hid to the world the all-pervading Terror, the economic disaster, the assasinations, the rape and thievery of the country's riches, the hunger-induced cannibalism, and the mountains of cadavers, all of this savagery carried out by a chosen few, who saw nothing wrong with the way that they, who controlled it all, were taking over and destroying the country, for their exclusive benefit.

Muggeridge saw legions of foreign, leftist radicals who were taking advantage of the real Russians, who were starving; he saw as well other regiments of "useful-idiots" who gained little from the cruel experiment, but rejoiced in the mystic "values" that they saw, which obscured to them the grim reality of the disaster that was taking place.

The book is historical fiction. Muggeridge tried to counter the damage to Freedom caused by the admiration of the cuckolded Western press, either seduced by what they did not understand or afraid for what might happen one day, should this perverted, absurd experiment that was Communism, triumph. To do so, from his lone position of weakness, against the clamor of socialists and internationalists who still today constitute the nucleus of the editors and managers who run what we erroneously believe is a free press, he was forced to trivialize what he saw, trying to achieve small gains for the truth, rather than be overwhelmed and steam-rollered by the lying leviathan.

That Muggeridge saw nothing trivial about the rape of a nation, is obvious by what he did upon his return to England and what his life became, after the highly educational, but terrifying experience he had just lived through. He immediately left the Fabian organizations he had belonged to all of his life; a politically-confirmed atheist, he became a Catholic; he gave speeches and explained to anyone who would listen to him, the evils of Communism; he wrote several books and tracts against this menace - although his voice was almost lost amidst the din of the Media, fawning all over itself to present favorably the lies and exaggerations of the communist savages, who had then, and retain today, certain elements of chic adored by those amongst us who enjoy every degeneracy that today has become "politically correct".

Mr.Muggeridge did his very best, with the meager tools he had been given, to staunch the flow of irrational propaganda that promised to flood the world to bring about Lenin's dreams of a world under the specter of communism, leading to the eventual liquidation of all religion, the eradication of ethics and morality, the removal of patriotism, and the assassination of anyone who dared oppose this universal Genocide - the worst ever perpetrated in all of history.

Unfortunately, our increasingly uneducated masses would not have understood the magnitude of the threat. Muggeridge was forced to feed us all the information piece-meal, diluted enough to be comprehensible for the average reader. He was not being silly; he was being intelligent and by measuring his words, making what small gains he could to an uncomprehending public.

Rating:
Summary: I was expecting at least a docudrama.
Review: So I was a little dissappointed that "Winter in Moscow" was a fictionalized account based on Muggeridge time in Russia in the early 30's. The characters mostly foreign reporters & writers are witness to the transformation of an entire society from a feudal state to the world first Communist nation. They are a sorry lot. This is a group that Muggeridge despises yet he was one of them. They enjoyed their life of privledge & luxury while mouthing the glories of the "Dictatorship of the Proletariat". They were either hypocrites or incredibly ignorant. It is however a reporter's story of the terror & hell that was Stalin's Russia circa 1932. Muggeridge was there.

Rating:
Summary: I was expecting at least a docudrama.
Review: So I was a little dissappointed that "Winter in Moscow" was a fictionalized account based on Muggeridge time in Russia in the early 30's. The characters mostly foreign reporters & writers are witness to the transformation of an entire society from a feudal state to the world first Communist nation. They are a sorry lot. This is a group that Muggeridge despises yet he was one of them. They enjoyed their life of privledge & luxury while mouthing the glories of the "Dictatorship of the Proletariat". They were either hypocrites or incredibly ignorant. It is however a reporter's story of the terror & hell that was Stalin's Russia circa 1932. Muggeridge was there.

Rating:
Summary: A Holocaust Hidden From Mankind
Review: This book was ahead of its time in revealing the true nature of the Bolsheviks and those that implemented its horrors as never seen before in history.Much of what Muggeridge revealed was verified in the many publications of late from those authors in Yale University Press'Annals of Communism Series'.
Ironic how so little exposure these revelations have had in our media.