V-E Day (Victory in Europe Day, May 8th)
On V-E Day (Victory in Europe Day, May 8th), libertarians
join everyone in celebrating the victory over socialism and over the National
Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazis). The U.S. helped end a war
that began in 1939 when Poland was invaded by the National Socialist German
Workers’ Party and by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, as allies
in their scheme to divide up Eastern Europe. (http://rexcurry.net/socialistwar.html)
It is often forgotten that “Nazi” meant “National Socialist
German Workers’ Party.” An easy way to remember that Nazis were self-proclaimed
socialists is that the swastika resembles two “S” letters overlapping and
the Nazis often used stylized “S” lettering in their symbols. (http://rexcurry.net/swastikanews.html)
Even after it split from the National Socialist German
Workers' Party, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics went on to kill even
more people.
WWII led to the Holocaust, and it led to the socialist
Wholecaust, in which hundreds of millions were slaughtered. The Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics killed 62 million; the People's Republic of China
killed 35 million; and the National Socialist German Workers’ Party killed
21 million (numbers from Professor R. J. Rummel's article in the Encyclopedia
of Genocide). Socialists are nuclear bombs. Socialism is nuclear war. (http://rexcurry.net/socialists.jpg)
It is scary how close the U.S. came to joining the socialist
trio of atrocities. During WWII, the Pledge of Allegiance to the U.S.
flag used a straight-arm salute similar to that of the National Socialist
German Workers’ Party (http://rexcurry.net/pledge1.html).
The Pledge and the salute originated with a self-proclaimed National Socialist in the U.S.
(Francis Bellamy) three decades before the National Socialist German Workers’
Party adopted a similar salute (http://rexcurry.net/pledgesalute.html).
The salute changed because of WWII. But there are
still government schools, and laws that make teachers lead children in robotic chants
of the socialist’s pledge daily, on cue from the government.
V-E Day is also V-S Day for our libertarian victory in the ongoing struggle against socialism.
