MITSOTAKIS: Communist Blood Money Always Had A High Price
Those countries with the closest ties to China are the ones suffering the most from Coronavirus. This may seem elementary, as it follows common sense. And yet, those countries failed to predict the consequences of working with such a corrupt and negligent power as the Chinese Communist Party. This despite the fact that doing business with communists has come back to harm us – in one form or another – time and again for a century.
In 1922, Samuel Gompers, founder of the American Federation of Labor, condemned those in Europe who, at a conference in Italy, were hoping to profit from business with Lenin’s new slave society. “The truth is that predatory international finance has its appetite up and believes it sees loot in Russia,” he said. “I know of nothing more cynical than the attitude of European statesmen and financiers toward the Russian muddle. Essentially it is their purpose, as laid down at Genoa, to place Russia in economic vassalage and give political recognition in exchange. Recognition in exchange for concessions.”
Soon, persuaded by propagandists like Armand Hammer and the New York Times’s Walter Duranty that it was a good idea, the United States followed suit. Stalin would later tell W. Averell Harriman that “about two-thirds of all the large industrial enterprises in the Soviet Union had been built with United States help or technical assistance.”
Unbeknownst to the West, their business partners Lenin and Stalin had secretly agreed to let militarist Germany rebuild its military machine inside Russia, out of sight of the powers that at Versailles had forbidden them from doing so. This arrangement remained intact until the early 1930s, when the rebuilt might of the German armed forces was inherited by Hitler. It would soon lay waste to the cities of Europe, at first with Stalin’s approval before it turned on the USSR.
MITSOTAKIS: Communist Blood Money Always Had A High Price