TCA -- Director Oliver Stone's upcoming Showtime documentary miniseries "Secret History of America" promises to put mass murderers such as Stalin and Hitler "in context."
"Stalin, Hitler, Mao, McCarthy -- these people have been vilified pretty thoroughly by history," Stone told reporters at the Television Critics Association's semi-annual press tour in Pasadena.
"Stalin has a complete other story," Stone said. "Not to paint him as a hero, but to tell a more factual representation. He fought the German war machine more than any single person.
Why yes, that's true, AFTER THEY WERE ALLIES IN BEGINNING OF THE WAR ITSELF, ALLIES IN TEARING POLAND APART, ALLIES BY TREATY OF SIGNED ALLIANCE NOT JUST PALS, AND WERE SUBSEQUENTLY ATTACKED . AFTER, OF COURSE, STALIN STARVED BETWEEN 7 AND 11 MILLION IN THE UKRAINE ALONE, PURPOSEFULLY, POLITICALLY
We can't judge people as only 'bad' or 'good.'
Hitler is an easy scapegoat throughout history and its been used cheaply.
He's the product of a series of actions. It's cause and effect ... People in America don't know the connection between WWI and WWII ... I've been able to walk in Stalin's shoes and Hitler's shoes to understand their point of view. We're going to educate our minds and liberalize them and broaden them. We want to move beyond opinions ... Go into the funding of the Nazi party. How many American corporations were involved, from GM through IBM. Hitler is just a man who could have easily been assassinated."
WW2 happened as the fault of the USA because we didn't assassinate Hitler? Are these the same people worried about a room at 58 degrees and waterboarding the planners of THIS WAR?
The controversial director's 10-part documentary series for Showtime promises to focus on events that "at the time went under-reported,....
How about the OVERWHELMING POPULARITY IN THE WEST OF APPEASEMENT, WHY IT BECAME POPULAR, WHO CONTRIBUTED CAMPAIGN $$ TO THOSE WHO BELIEVED IN IT, AND THE ELECTIONS IT WON?
but crucially shaped America's unique and complex history of the last 60 years." Subjects in "History" include President Harry Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan and the origins of the Cold War with the Soviet Union.
How about the estimated 3-7 million Japanese lives it saved, the 250,000 American dead and up to 1,000,000 wounded in the planned invasion? The plans for civilian mass resistance to invasion with bamboo spears, the coup in Japan that failed by a slender reed AFTER the emperor announced surrender, or the actions of Stalin in East Germany when the west strove for some kinds of compromise from 1946-48? How about what our BEST PEOPLE made of Stalin ..all but one LIBERALS?
"You cannot approach history unless you have empathy for the person you may hate,
Empathy? Tell that one in Lidice, or to the people along the roadside in Mariveles or Cabanatuan, or the comfort women throughout asia, or in the Katyn
Stone said during the show's trailer, which promised to put historical villains "in context." "I don't want to put out conventional History Channel product where it's easy to like it."
It's called HISTORY, douche-horn - that means FACTS not revisionism. Why not just take the view of the guys in Tehran? They view Hitler and Stalin with much more understanding of fault and cause?
"He's not saying we're going to come out with a more positive view of Hitler," emphasized professor Peter Kuznick, the lead writer on the project.
Let's remember THAT name in case it pops up somewhere else.
"But we're going to describe him as a historical phenomenon and not just somebody who appeared out of nowhere."
Stone said that conservative pundits will dislike the show.
"Obviously, Rush Limbaugh is not going to like this history and, as usual, we're going to get those kind of ignorant attacks," said Stone, who also also compared the experience of sympathizing with war criminals to making his "W" movie about George W. Bush. "I'm trying to understand somebody I thoroughly despised."
Stone also warned that the same military industrial complex forces that he's explored in movies such as "JFK" and in "Secret History," are now corrupting Barack Obama.
"You can understand why Obama is following in Bush's footsteps in Afghanistan," Stone said."Obama is very much trapped, we believe, in that system. And so that's what we're going to try and show you -- the way it works."
The project will also show lesser-known positive aspects of American history and unsung heroes. Stone eventually hopes to send "Secret History" to schools as a teaching curriculum.
"It would be a very different counterweight to what they're learning," Stone said. "Nobody is going to force it down anybody's throat."
A critic also asked Stone "the Sarah Palin question" of what he likes to read.
"My father was a voracious New York Times reader," he said. "We consider that in The Middle. "
Middle? Walter Duranty? David Brooks', Bill Safire, and Bill Kristol are supposed to balance the reporting, while dueling with men and women like Krugman, Anthony Lewis, and the BDS suffering Dowd?
This is all about the dialectic.
History must adhere.
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