William Randolph Hearst is the name of a multi-millionaire who sought to help the Nazis in their psychological warfare against the Soviet Union. Hearst was a well-known US newspaper proprietor known as the ‘father’ of the so-called ‘yellow press’, i.e., the sensationalist press. William Hearst began his career as a newspaper editor in 1885 when his father, George Hearst, a millionaire mining industrialist, Senator and newspaper proprietor himself, put him in charge of the San Francisco Daily Examiner.
This was also the start of the Hearst newspaper empire, an empire which strongly influenced the lives and thinking of North Americans. After his father died, William Hearst sold all the mining industry shares he inherited and began to invest capital in the world of journalism. His first purchase was the New York Morning Journal, a traditional newspaper which Hearst completely transformed into a sensationalist rag. He bought his stories at any price, and when there were no atrocities or crimes to report, it behoved his journalists and photographers to ‘arrange’ matters. It is this which in fact characterises the ‘yellow press’: lies and ‘arranged’ atrocities served up as truth.
These lies of Hearst’s made him a millionaire and a very important personage in the newspaper world. In 1935 he was one of the richest men in the world, with a fortune estimated at $200 million. After his purchase of the Morning Journal, Hearst went on to buy and establish daily and weekly newspapers throughout the US. In the 1940s, William Hearst owned 25 daily newspapers, 24 weekly newspapers, 12 radio stations, 2 world news services, one business providing news items for films, the Cosmopolitan film company, and a lot of others. In 1948 he bought one of the US’s first TV stations, BWAL – TV in Baltimore. Hearst’s newspapers sold 13 million copies a day and had close to 40 million readers. Almost a third of the adult population of the US were reading Hearst newspapers every day. Furthermore, many millions of people throughout the world received information from the Hearst press via his news services, films and a series of newspapers that were translated and published in large quantities all over the world. The figures quoted above demonstrate how the Hearst empire was able to influence American politics, and indeed world politics, over very many years – on issues which included opposition to the US entering the Second World War on the side of the Soviet Union and support for the McCarthyite anti-communist witch-hunts of the 1950s.
William Hearst’s outlook was ultra-conservative, nationalist and anti-communist. His politics were the politics of the extreme right. In 1934 he travelled to Germany, where he was received by Hitler as a guest and friend. After this trip, Hearst’s newspapers became even more reactionary, always carrying articles against socialism, against the Soviet Union and especially against Stalin. Hearst also tried to use his newspapers for overt Nazi propaganda purposes, publishing a series of articles by Goering, Hitler’s right-hand man. The protests of many readers, however, forced him to stop publishing such items and to withdraw them from circulation.
After his visit to Hitler, Hearst’s sensationalist newspapers were filled with ‘revelations’ about the terrible happenings in the Soviet Union – murders, genocide, slavery, luxury for the rulers and starvation for the people, all these were the big news items almost every day. The material was provided to Hearst by the Gestapo, Nazi Germany’s political police. On the front pages of the newspapers there often appeared caricatures and falsified pictures of the Soviet Union, with Stalin portrayed as a murderer holding a dagger in his hand. We should not forget that these articles were read each day by 40 million people in the US and millions of others worldwide!
leftist meme lol, fuck Stalin all my homies hate Stalin while understanding that he helped lift millions out of poverty and can have nuanced thoughts and opinions.
individual SSRs had already recriminalized it soon after the revolution, Stalin was the last hold out to follow suit nearly a decade later. A country with lots of conservative Jews, Muslims, and Christians didn't need Stalin to make them be bigoted.
He doesn't get a pass, I think in the long run analysis of it in the context of history doesn't add anything to the discussion. He was wrong about it, eveyone around him was wrong about it. To my knowlge there wasn't a burgeoning rights movement he crushed or anything, although if there was I'd have to update my thinking. I think the historical realities of receving a partial 1800s education prevent us from gaining deep insight through this analysis.
Comrade Stalin, having become Secretary-General, has unlimited authority concentrated in his hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of using that authority with sufficient caution.
I didn't say he ruined it, I said it was part of his agenda. He did begin the path of revisionism, though, beginning with his "Secret Speech", and then continuing with his "destalinization" (aka, reliberalizing [aka, aka, unsocializing]) of the economy
I'm very confused by this thread lol, but yeah, Stalin gets a bad rap. He was pretty shitty on a personal level, especially with the that instance of pedophilia...but he wasn't anywhere near as bad as the other world leaders at the time. Socialism in Russia was steadily progressing under his leadership.
The fact that Stalin is remembered is primarily because Kruschev's revisionism tried to pin everything on Stalin without acknowledging the fact that a huge amount of the progress made under him was through the mass of the party, not Stalin himself.
aren't both bad then?
the allegation against churchill is true
Yeah, and Stalin wasn't good, I understand why Russians might love him but it's still cringe
who told you that, a nazi?
William Hearst – Friend of Hitler
William Randolph Hearst is the name of a multi-millionaire who sought to help the Nazis in their psychological warfare against the Soviet Union. Hearst was a well-known US newspaper proprietor known as the ‘father’ of the so-called ‘yellow press’, i.e., the sensationalist press. William Hearst began his career as a newspaper editor in 1885 when his father, George Hearst, a millionaire mining industrialist, Senator and newspaper proprietor himself, put him in charge of the San Francisco Daily Examiner.
This was also the start of the Hearst newspaper empire, an empire which strongly influenced the lives and thinking of North Americans. After his father died, William Hearst sold all the mining industry shares he inherited and began to invest capital in the world of journalism. His first purchase was the New York Morning Journal, a traditional newspaper which Hearst completely transformed into a sensationalist rag. He bought his stories at any price, and when there were no atrocities or crimes to report, it behoved his journalists and photographers to ‘arrange’ matters. It is this which in fact characterises the ‘yellow press’: lies and ‘arranged’ atrocities served up as truth.
These lies of Hearst’s made him a millionaire and a very important personage in the newspaper world. In 1935 he was one of the richest men in the world, with a fortune estimated at $200 million. After his purchase of the Morning Journal, Hearst went on to buy and establish daily and weekly newspapers throughout the US. In the 1940s, William Hearst owned 25 daily newspapers, 24 weekly newspapers, 12 radio stations, 2 world news services, one business providing news items for films, the Cosmopolitan film company, and a lot of others. In 1948 he bought one of the US’s first TV stations, BWAL – TV in Baltimore. Hearst’s newspapers sold 13 million copies a day and had close to 40 million readers. Almost a third of the adult population of the US were reading Hearst newspapers every day. Furthermore, many millions of people throughout the world received information from the Hearst press via his news services, films and a series of newspapers that were translated and published in large quantities all over the world. The figures quoted above demonstrate how the Hearst empire was able to influence American politics, and indeed world politics, over very many years – on issues which included opposition to the US entering the Second World War on the side of the Soviet Union and support for the McCarthyite anti-communist witch-hunts of the 1950s.
William Hearst’s outlook was ultra-conservative, nationalist and anti-communist. His politics were the politics of the extreme right. In 1934 he travelled to Germany, where he was received by Hitler as a guest and friend. After this trip, Hearst’s newspapers became even more reactionary, always carrying articles against socialism, against the Soviet Union and especially against Stalin. Hearst also tried to use his newspapers for overt Nazi propaganda purposes, publishing a series of articles by Goering, Hitler’s right-hand man. The protests of many readers, however, forced him to stop publishing such items and to withdraw them from circulation.
After his visit to Hitler, Hearst’s sensationalist newspapers were filled with ‘revelations’ about the terrible happenings in the Soviet Union – murders, genocide, slavery, luxury for the rulers and starvation for the people, all these were the big news items almost every day. The material was provided to Hearst by the Gestapo, Nazi Germany’s political police. On the front pages of the newspapers there often appeared caricatures and falsified pictures of the Soviet Union, with Stalin portrayed as a murderer holding a dagger in his hand. We should not forget that these articles were read each day by 40 million people in the US and millions of others worldwide!
from Lies concerning the history of the Soviet Union: From Hitler to Hearst, from Conquest to Solzhenitsyn
leftist meme lol, fuck Stalin all my homies hate Stalin while understanding that he helped lift millions out of poverty and can have nuanced thoughts and opinions.
Well all my homies love Stalin while understanding he was a problematic old boomer with a questionable youth.
The left will never be united :(
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individual SSRs had already recriminalized it soon after the revolution, Stalin was the last hold out to follow suit nearly a decade later. A country with lots of conservative Jews, Muslims, and Christians didn't need Stalin to make them be bigoted.
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The man did have an 1800s education. Its hard to decide what was his fault and wasnt.
Shit take. You wouldn't say that about George Washington being a slaver, why does Stalin get a pass for being homophobic
He doesn't get a pass, I think in the long run analysis of it in the context of history doesn't add anything to the discussion. He was wrong about it, eveyone around him was wrong about it. To my knowlge there wasn't a burgeoning rights movement he crushed or anything, although if there was I'd have to update my thinking. I think the historical realities of receving a partial 1800s education prevent us from gaining deep insight through this analysis.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1922/dec/testamnt/congress.htm
https://www.marxists.org/archive/khrushchev/1956/02/24.htm
Famous Nazis.
Lmao, imagine listening to Kruschev,
You can mock him, but was he a nazi? Nah.
No, he was just a man with an agenda to ruin Stalin's image, and socialism in the USSR
How did he ruin Socialism?
I didn't say he ruined it, I said it was part of his agenda. He did begin the path of revisionism, though, beginning with his "Secret Speech", and then continuing with his "destalinization" (aka, reliberalizing [aka, aka, unsocializing]) of the economy
Please explain more or post links for me to read.
I want to read.
this might be a good place to start. If you want more, I can find you more
I know you hadn't asked, but here's also an article Mao wrote on Khrushchev and the state of the USSR at the time
lol, but I did ask tho.
I'm very confused by this thread lol, but yeah, Stalin gets a bad rap. He was pretty shitty on a personal level, especially with the that instance of pedophilia...but he wasn't anywhere near as bad as the other world leaders at the time. Socialism in Russia was steadily progressing under his leadership.
The fact that Stalin is remembered is primarily because Kruschev's revisionism tried to pin everything on Stalin without acknowledging the fact that a huge amount of the progress made under him was through the mass of the party, not Stalin himself.
Castro had some good analysis of the subject
He ushered in the first waves of market and reforms aside from deStalinization and anti revolutionary rhetoric.
lol the faked testament (more) and Khrushchev :corn-man-khrush: