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I stumbled across this interesting tidbit this morning. I would be willing to bet his is not a unique story. In 1942, even the “leaders” of the Communist Party dropped what they were doing and went to war to defend Liberty and the U.S.
-Racist
WIKI-
Junius Irving Scales was born into a socially prominent family in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1920. In 1935 he began hanging around ‘The Intimate Bookshop’ in Chapel Hill (run by Milton A. Abernethy and known to locals simply as Ab’s), a barn-like off-campus watering hole for local intellectuals and bohemians which had a clandestine Communist Party printing press in a back room. He was soon hired as a clerk in the store, and spent more time reading the books than working. He started attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill the following year, at the age of 16, and three years later on his birthday, in 1939, he secretly joined the Communist Party, and soon afterward married his first wife, Vera, and quit school to became a union organizer in the textile mills. The attack on Pearl Harbor brought a sudden end to his union organizing efforts, and he volunteered for military service.[2]
After serving in the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1946, he returned to Chapel Hill. While completing work on his bachelor’s degree and starting work on his master’s, he became the local party organizer, supervising five local Communist clubs and hosting weekly salons at his home open to both party and non-party members. In 1948 he became state chairman of the party.
Click here: Junius Scales – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hannah
August 22nd, 2012
What’s this blasphemy about people setting aside their opinions and working to keep our nation strong. Unheard of and unfounded!
Stranded in Sonoma
August 22nd, 2012
Wait! You mean socialists LIE and kill opponents to get more power and keep it? Who knew?
But I thought socialists such as Noam Chomsky have said that some people are going to die in the revolution? You know, like these people. The best part is, they actually did something about it.
dba...vagabond trader
August 22nd, 2012
The official American commie line during WWII was in accord with the USSR and their fluid relationship with Germany. They were against the war before they were for it.
Jethro
August 22nd, 2012
By 1942 Hitler had backstabbed Stalin and all the CPUSA rhetoric had turned from “Hitler is great” to “Hitler is evil incarnate”. This Jack_ss wasn’t fighting for the USA, he was fighting for the USSR.
Left Coast Dan
August 22nd, 2012
Hey – libs do ‘support the troops’.
Bayou Bartholomew Barrio Boozers
August 22nd, 2012
They didn’t have obama around back then explaining how it was more important to destroy America than it is to try to defend it.
Callmelennie
August 22nd, 2012
You could say the same thing about Obama’s great uncle. He was also fighting for his country — the Soviet Union.
Indeed, it was his deep abiding love of country that spurred him to travel 600 miles across enemy territory to personally liberate Auschwitz
Tim
August 22nd, 2012
Yep, after the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of 1939 the CPUSA became unusually quiet about Germany and National Socialism. The American socialists would never have joined the fray against National Socialism if Hitler hadn’t mis-interpreted the Russo-Finnish War and screwed up so royally.
Roscoe P. Soultrane
August 22nd, 2012
They went to war for Stalin. There are stories of communists in Hollywood and elsewhere claiming “We were attacked!” on June 22, 1941.
Major Mal function
August 22nd, 2012
Uh, no. The CPUSA was allied with the Nazis when Hitler was allied with Stalin. Only after Hitler’s Germany invaded the Soviet Union did American Communists turn anti-Nazi. They fought for Stalin and world Communist revolution, not for America, democracy or freedom.
Racist
August 23rd, 2012
Now that you mention it, I believe T heard Trevor Louden say just that last week in the Il. Tea Party video. Stil, the Demunists of today believe that “The enemy of my enemy is my friend”. And would rather fight against America even if we were fighting the NAZIs… Hell, we are fighting the nazis, they just wear curtains and beach towels on their heads instead of SS uniforms and dog bowls on their head!