Big Lies, Viral Tweets and American Betrayal by Diana W

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It's only been about a week since Putin cycled through Magadan the edge of Russia and went to a land-lease Memorial and then popped over to Alaska for his visit with Trump.  But it has been a World War II kind of week ever since for me.  I ended up being quite struck by the symbolism that was absolutely over everyone's heads because why wouldn't it be? We're never taught these things.  So if you haven't read American betrayal which is part of this week's story you would not know I didn't know until I researched this and put it in American betrayal Magadan for example was the transport point it was actually a slave built, Soviet slave built, city transit point for the Arctic Circle: gold mining camps, timber, logging camps, and so on, gulag camps, very notorious Kolyma Gulag is in this region.  And in American Betrayal, Magadan comes up in a memoir that was recorded in the 1990s by an eyewitness to seeing American troops in Magadan transiting into that harshest gulag system so that kind of hits you hard when you KNOW THAT, and you don't see anyone else knowing that.  "Oh, Putin is in Magadan!" and he went to this particular Monument, "Oh, a symbol of Russian-American cooperation!" and he lays a wreath, he lays roses.  He didn't go to the Magadan Mask of Sorrow Monument to commemorate the pain and suffering of tens of thousands of poor slaves including Americans, who were forced into labor camps and so on.  And these would have been American POWs, perhaps I didn't mention that.  Who are discussed the Betrayal of American soldiers going back really to World War I but really in every war we've ever fought with the Soviet Union, as well as China we've had men left behind and this is always been denied and turned into a kind of cartoon the first real inkling in the public imagination came from the Rambo movies, which seemed very cartoonish to most people but this was a real story indeed the big shock is the 15 to 20,000 Americans soldiers GIS who had been in German Nazi POW camps when the Soviets came through and took possession of those lands they transited into the gulag system never to return home, and something like 20,000 plus, 30,000, Nationals belonging to the British Empire at the time, British, Canadian, New Zealanders, etc.  They too were left behind so we had this massive cover-up, which is detailed in the book, Chapter 11 of American Betrayal.  But these kinds of images, this history, is encased in the word "Magadan," in the Land Lease statue, and all the rest of it.  It was presented to the American people to anyone who is paying attention these days as a symbol of Russian American cooperation and Putin puts his bouquet there and goes and does his whatever happened in Alaska with Trump and again it was not rushing American cooperation it was Soviet American subversion and the lesson of American betrayal the subject of American betrayal is to study that subversion the communization of our government our institutions through the stealth aggression of Soviet agents straight-up Soviet agents, assets, contacts, fellow Travelers, useful fools, who are fanned out in our government in a very meaningful way.  There's a word I cannot stand, it's not a real word, "impactful way."  I'm only using that to make fun of it no but with an impact to bring an impact starting in a very serious way in the FDR years in the early 1930s and this is the story of the opening of that Network these networks that American betrayal begins with as Whittaker Chambers arrives in Washington DC in 1934 around the same time in the same season as a man named William Wirt arrived to testify as to what he knew about these Networks what he knew about these Secret communist plans to overthrow our government