Protest this novel! It makes the Red Army, not the Germans, the villains in WW2 June 14, 2016

 Dear friends:

Here's the novel - the second one reviewed in this NYT article:

“Novels Bring World War II to Life for a New Generation”

 The protagonists are fleeing to the West, away from the advancing Red Army.

The author, Ruta Sepetys, has a Wikipedia page. It was clearly written by a fan of hers.

She says the Soviets were guilty of “genocide” in the Baltics -- Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

This is a lie, of course. The Soviets deported the pro-Nazi elite of thse countries.

 Her novel, Salt to the Sea, features a heroine who fled to Nazi Germany to get away from the Red Army. Here is the Wikipedia page for this novel.

“Joana: A young Lithuanian nurse fleeing from East Prussia. She repatriated to Nazi Germany with her family in 1941 to escape capture from the Soviet Russian forces.”

It's the “two Holocausts,” the “Soviets = Nazis, Communism = Fascism, Stalin = Hitler” version of history.  But with a twist -- the Germanys are BETTER than the Soviets.

Of course! The Lithuanian nationalists were all pro-Nazi and pro-Fascist. They started the mass murder of Jews without the Nazis even having to tell them to do it! This was the case throughout the Baltics and in Poland.

The ship in the film, the "Wilhelm Gustloff," was sunk because it was a warship that also carried civilians.

"Günter Grass, in an interview published by The New York Times in April 2003, "One of the many reasons I wrote Crabwalk was to take the subject away from the extreme Right...They said the tragedy of Wilhelm Gustloff was a war crime. It wasn't. It was terrible, but it was a result of war, a terrible result of war."

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Wilhelm_Gustloff

Sepetys was awarded the “Cross of the Knight of the Order” for “her global efforts to share the history of totalitarianism in the Baltics.”

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I suggest we write letters to the editor of the New York Times to protest this thinly-veiled pro-fascist, anticommunist travesty of history.

Use this address:  letters@nytimes.com

No more than 150 words. Short and to the point!

Sincerely,

Grover Furr