| | Sen. LaFollette remarked after the collapse of the [[Communazi pact]] when [[Hitler]] invaded the [[Soviet Union]] in 1941, | | Sen. LaFollette remarked after the collapse of the [[Communazi pact]] when [[Hitler]] invaded the [[Soviet Union]] in 1941, |
| − | :"The fighting [[interventionist]]s will now put on the greatest whitewash in history. The American people will be told to forget the [[Great Purge|purges]], the [[OGPU]], the confiscation of property, the [[persecution]] of [[religion]], the [[World_War_II#Finnish_War|invasion of Finland]], the [[World_War_II#Polish_Partition|seizing of half of Poland]], and all of [[Western_betrayal#Baltic_States|Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania]]. These will be made to seem the acts of a [[democracy]] fighting Hitler."<ref>''[[New York Times]]'', June 23, 1941. Quoted in ''While You Slept : Our Tragedy in Asia and Who Made It'', John T. Flynn, New York : The Devin - Adair Company, 1951, [http://www.mises.org/books/whileyouslept.pdf pgs. 73, 83] pdf.</ref> | + | :"The fighting [[interventionist]]s will now put on the greatest whitewash in history. The American people will be told to forget the [[Great Purge|purges]], the [[OGPU]], the confiscation of property, the [[persecution]] of [[religion]], the [[World_War_II#Finnish_War|invasion of Finland]], the [[World_War_II#Polish_Partition|seizing of half of Poland]], and all of [[Western_betrayal#Baltic_States|Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania]]. These will be made to seem the acts of a [[democracy]] fighting Hitler."<ref>''[[New York Times]]'', June 23, 1941. Quoted in ''While You Slept : Our Tragedy in Asia and Who Made It'', John T. Flynn, New York : The Devin - Adair Company, 1951, [http://www.mises.org/books/whileyouslept.pdf pg. 55] pdf.</ref> |