SPECTRE - Anti-Communist Lies and Propaganda

SPECTRE Podcast

A solo episode where we look into some of the most famous anti-communist myths, lies, and propaganda. We examine how and why these lies are spread and how they have been allowed to take a frim position of validity in mainstream media.Sources:

Poppers' The Open Society and it's Enemies (1945) and The Poverty of Historicism (1957)

Berlin and Kayek's The Road to Serfdom (1944)

Wheatcroft and Davis' Agriculture in The Economic Transformation of the Soviet Union 1913-1945 (1944)

Michael Parenti's Blackshirts and Reds, Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism (1997)

Nick Lowles' Searchlight (February 2000) and The Morning Star (May 19th 2000)

Douglas Tottle Fraud, Famine and Fascism : The Ukrainian Genocide Myth from Hitler to Harvard (1987)

Conquest's The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivisation and the Terror-famine (1986)

Winnington's Breakfast with Mao (Lawrence and Wishart, 1986)

Rowan Valvona Challenge Article - https://challenge-magazine.org/2022/02/03/is-north-korea-a-monarchy/

Ole L Smith's Self-Defence and Communist Policy 1945-1947 in Studies in the History of the Greek Civil War 1945-1949 (1987)

Music Credit: The Streets - has it come to this

Fleetwood Mac - Little Lies

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