Harvey Klehr on McCarthy and American Communism

[@gymnastix]

Didn't M. Stanton Evans, author of "Blacklisted by History : The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies," also have access to those formerly restricted Soviet documents which proved there were communist agents in the United States? In fact, Evans' book was published two years before "Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America" (Yale University Press, 2009) by Harvey Klehr,. John Earl Haynes and Alexander Vassiliev.

[@jonathanacross]

You are absolutely right. "Blacklisted by History" is definitive in portraying how politicians are more concerned with protecting their party's image than with rooting out subversives, especially influential subversives, who betray their country. Senator McCarthy "suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune" in his search for truth.

[@heatblur1]

Yes.

[@jward9637]

The Communists never seem to go away. They go underground but they always come back.

[@iqherrera]

@Uncle Ho @ 10:10 today’s Political democrats have pulled a page right out of the paranoid McCarthyism hand book. Even more fascist are the New democrat actions as they have enlisted the entire media to dox those who do not think as a democrat socialist communist. They have began censorship of the most high office of the President of the United States..... McCarthyism did not go as far as the New Democrat party. Beginning in the 1970’s, The New Left socialist communist began studying the Old Left. Will we become a communist country as China or maybe Russia. These communist have a love of for pure unadulterated Government control, freedom of speech censored for anyone who believes in, God, Country and family... Our country has been taken over by the communist countries. It’s old news that Moscow funds are most prestigious colleges, under the nose of a most conservative President Reagan. Serendipity

[@NEHSSIE]

Like the cockroaches they are.

[@carlferry8992]

Joe McCarthy should be given the Congressional Medal of Honor! Now I am proud to say I am a McCarthyite!

[@falcngnzx2]

Senator Joseph McCarthy is EXONERATED!!!

[@skipperrussell2025]

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[@balozhende5727]

Nonsense. The U.S, Senate, President Eisenhower but you and McCarthy are in the wrong junior. They all made that clear. Go back to school and pay attention this time.

[@ZMA_831]

You even took time to edit your comment and it is still incomprehensible!!!😂 I will listen to those whom I can first understand...​@@balozhende5727

[@ReformedHistorian]

@@balozhende5727you misspelled “correct”. McCarthy is exonerated.

[@balozhende5727]

@@ReformedHistorian Mccarthy was NOT successful in what we wanted to do. That is an absolute fact. President Eisenhower disliked McCarthy. Have nice day. I am history professor and have been for decades. I am sure you are capable.

[@opchidexio]

Facts matter. A distorted view of the past distorts one's view of the present and future. Thumbs up for Harvey Klehr and John Earl Haynes! America's history can not be understood without the NEW MATERIAL provided by Haynes and Klehr!

[@heatblur1]

The readers of the Washington Post's April 14, 1996 issue, pg. C1, were stunned to find that one of the most Progressive authors in America, Nicholas von Hoffman, admitted that Joseph McCarthy's accusations have now been substantiated by the National Security Agency's "Venona project," which intercepted messages passed between Soviet intelligence agents in the United States and their intelligence officers in Moscow. (Human Events, March 22, 1996, pg. 5.) Nicholas von Hoffman was an American journalist and author. He worked as a community organizer for Saul Alinsky in Chicago for ten years from 1953 to 1963. He wrote for the Washington Post. Later, TV audiences knew him as a "Point-Counterpoint" commentator for CBS's 60 Minutes and was also a columnist for The Huffington Post. Von Hoffman continued: The growing body of evidence about Soviet infiltration and espionage shows that "Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, executed in June 1953 for atomic espionage, were guilty; Alger Hiss, a darling of the establishment, was guilty; and that dozens of lesser known persons such as Victor Perlo, Judith Coplon and Harry Gold, were traitors.

[@SandfordSmythe]

How about all the innocent actors and writers?

[@heatblur1]

@@SandfordSmythe They weren't innocent.

[@SandfordSmythe]

@heatblur1 There was a considerable number of artists and intellectuals associated with the Communist Party during the Depression out of their sense of idealism. Pete Seeger was a communist who sang a lot of songs about workers and civil rights. Was he passing secrets to the Soviet Union? Hoover in the FBI had extensive notes over their comings and goings. He would have been the first to institute legal action if any laws were broken. He had to follow due process and be accountable. This was his job, not a publicly seeking politician in the Senate. God forbid someone trying to track down the SDS folks of the 60s and find a bunch of state legislators, PhD college professors/authors, businessmen,math teachers, lawyers, and so forth.

[@gustavomartin2]

Truth exists. Primary sources matter. History matters. Thank you Harvey Klehr!

[@danielpucher3367]

The first 2 minutes of this speech need rewritten in 2020...

[@Kewrock]

I know! I started watching, then had to scroll down a few inches to see how long ago this was published.

[@renaissancenovice7202]

1:45 that didn't age well. Lol. Conservatives proven right by time as usual.

[@Lucypetuniaggm]

Here we are in 2021, and oh, the irony. The reason Marxism has managed to take hold in the US today is that too many Americans think as this gentleman does...that it couldn’t happen here. No radicals in America? I’d love to hear what he’d say about that today.

[@antoniod]

Shrecker is all wet about Hollywood in the 50s. 50s Westerns were more complicated than "Good Guy/Bad Guy polarization", and she didn't even mention the continuation of Film Noir and groundbreaking films like NO WAY OUT(1950).

[@austntexan]

Excellent presentation. Prof. Klehr's books need to be required reading in High School and University History courses.

[@gbuz5789]

China is the new Soviet Union and Covit-19 is China's Chernobyl.

[@Freefolkcreate]

Precisely.

[@Freefolkcreate]

And the UN is Stalin

[@TheWhitehiker]

way overdue, thank you.

[@michaelconnor1542]

If you claim you are not a communist, but promote communism, are you not in fact a communist, even as you claim not to be? If it acts like a duck, and walks like a duck, it's a duck. A lot of words to proves you wasted a lot of taxpayer money.

[@exodus3518]

" the usa is the only major industrial nation in the world where no socialist or communist movement or party has either come to power or seriously contested for power, despite the alarms by some conservative pundits. The democratic party has never embraced the moderate forms of democratic socialism." Okay professor; what did the author of socialism say about socialism?

[@tecumsehcristero]

8 years later things are different

[@rhetoricallydefective]

1:42 "The Democratic party has never even entertained democratic socialism found in europe."

[@CrazyK64]

Did he say he started the communist party here?? Well now we know

[@sjnxsjxyn]

You are a fool, senator mccarthy has been exonerated, we need his help right now

[@hklausen]

The problem is at the turn of the century, 19-20, Eurupe did have nealy all sciensits and philocifers in history. And then there is you that teach young people you are better than others :(

[@hklausen]

As an "so called expert" you should try to sustain some historical corretness.

[@hklausen]

You did not hesitate to use a war criminal to bring you to the moon? Moral is good. Duble moral is twice as good.

[@rlibos]

LONG LIVE THE PEOPLE'S REVOLUTIONARY VANGUARD !!!!!

[@Freefolkcreate]

Communism kills.

[@hklausen]

Yes it is a od chose. Do you spaek any other than UsS English? Much is defined by languege. U can well be one of them American natioalists I don't like. By the way, as an example, Watergate is an joke here in Europe. May be you should turn to Montypytons. Could be that it's you that's a fasist:

[@ZMA_831]

I'm sure you are a nationalist in your country. Proud about your heritage, history, and ethnicity. You're also most certainly a hypocrite.

[@hklausen]

Problem! sounds some easy when you say it, but I don't think you have any right to put words in the mouth of studends.

[@hklausen]

You still talk like one of you founders, Ben Frankin, who died in 1790. That make me uneasy. Are all US citicens living in the 18. century ? In the MCcarty period you drove Allen Turring to take his own life because he was gay. He was clever and widely regarded as the father of computing, not communist. Did you know that only 20% US citicens have a passport?

[@antoniod]

Alan Turing was English and was harassed by the English justice system. It had nothing to do with McCarthy or any American politician.

[@LoftOfTheUniverse]

Soy based.

[@hklausen]

How can you ever tell? Thay never did other to you than sending the first satellite up and the first man in space orbit ! ? You had to use a Nazi consulsant to do that ! ? Were you that good?

[@ZMA_831]

And in that absorption of NAZIs into our ranks of government through "PROJECT PAPERCLIP" IS WHEN& HOW AMERICA WAS OVERTAKEN BY COMMUNISM.

[@hklausen]

I´m not sure you are qualified to speak on any of your agencies.

[@hklausen]

To be honest, Im quite bored