The WSWS report on the D Day celebration fraud is quite helpful. I do not agree with all that they say (as WSWS always is obligated to throw in some propaganda) but the basic argument is sound.
"Hitler would certainly have been pleased with the decision of Macron, in response to objections from the US and Britain, to rescind Russia’s invitation to the D-Day memorial. The presence of a Russian delegation would have been an unwelcome reminder of the monumental and decisive contribution made by the Soviet Union to the defeat of the Third Reich. Notwithstanding the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the restoration of capitalism, Russia will always bear, in the minds of the imperialist powers, the stigma of the socialist revolution of October 1917."
"how ruthlessly they would continue doing so ifthey had formal power. And even though Jews were staging rallies in Madison Square Garden against the Nazi Holocaust in 1943, most Americans did not believe there was a Nazi campaign to exterminate the Jews because FDR remained silent on the matter. Behind the scenes, when the Nazis were killing 6,000 Polish Jews a day, the State Department orsign of a disposition for an armistice...The British reply: there was no alternative to unconditional surrender."267 Because ofthe failure ofanti-Hitler Germans to get U.S. support and topple Hitler, and because unconditional surrender convinced many German officers who might otherwise have surrendered to fight more ferociously," The text seems mangled at several spots as if sections are missing.
The WSWS report on the D Day celebration fraud is quite helpful. I do not agree with all that they say (as WSWS always is obligated to throw in some propaganda) but the basic argument is sound.
"Hitler would certainly have been pleased with the decision of Macron, in response to objections from the US and Britain, to rescind Russia’s invitation to the D-Day memorial. The presence of a Russian delegation would have been an unwelcome reminder of the monumental and decisive contribution made by the Soviet Union to the defeat of the Third Reich. Notwithstanding the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the restoration of capitalism, Russia will always bear, in the minds of the imperialist powers, the stigma of the socialist revolution of October 1917."
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/06/06/tucp-j06.html
"how ruthlessly they would continue doing so ifthey had formal power. And even though Jews were staging rallies in Madison Square Garden against the Nazi Holocaust in 1943, most Americans did not believe there was a Nazi campaign to exterminate the Jews because FDR remained silent on the matter. Behind the scenes, when the Nazis were killing 6,000 Polish Jews a day, the State Department orsign of a disposition for an armistice...The British reply: there was no alternative to unconditional surrender."267 Because ofthe failure ofanti-Hitler Germans to get U.S. support and topple Hitler, and because unconditional surrender convinced many German officers who might otherwise have surrendered to fight more ferociously," The text seems mangled at several spots as if sections are missing.
I'll fix it. Cut and paste from my PDF file didn't work perfectly.