Imagine if one of America’s foremost writers had once been privy to a shadowy plot by Hitler’s Germany to take control of the motion picture industry through its labor organizations and force writers to clear scripts with Nazi censors, and then he courageously stepped forward to blow the whistle on the whole operation.
Wouldn’t it be bizarre if, when this man died, instead of being celebrated for such heroism, he was criticized and even attacked by colleagues for revealing the identities of those who were behind the intrigue?
This strange scenario isn’t far from what unfolded in the media last week when novelist and screenwriter Budd Schulberg died. The only difference is that Schulberg, once a communist, blew the whistle on Stalin’s murderous Soviet regime and the Communist Party it controlled in America.
Read it all. Exit question for recent college grads: just who WAS Stalin, anyway?
h/t: powerline
