Dear CCI Friends,

First, I hope everyone had a HAPPY JULY 4th WEEKEND!!!

On to our agenda regarding WWII …

The Soviet nation lost approximately 26,000,000 people (military and civilian) in World War II, compared to the European nations and the United States, each of which had less than 500,000 fatalities. I was told in the mid-80s that for young Soviet men born in 1921, only 3% of them survived the war. In addition, the USSR’s primary territory, cities and industrial base were destroyed during the war.

Trying to understand the conflicting issues in the lead-up to WWII, I went to the Internet, not always the best source, but all that was immediately available to me. It appears that Germany was the country which the other nations most greatly feared. Different combinations of them tried without success to align with each other for their own country’s safety. Early on, Stalin tried to align with a number of these countries but was refused, likely because all were suspicious of communism, with good reason.

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Dear CCI Friends,

On June 18, 2020, Vladimir Putin released to the world Russia’s archival understanding of the horrendous war years, the final months and the near total devastation of the Soviet Union due to World War II. Forgive me for being late getting this email to you. I have been researching these years daily on the Internet (more in a second CCI letter).

On May 8, 2020, at multiple sites in England, France, Germany, Scotland and Washington, DC, the primary allied countries that fought together in WWII held ceremonies in celebration of VE Day, the end of WWII in Europe. Russia was not invited.

Could this be why President Putin put together his definitive statement of WWII? It is Russia’s record of the sequence of war events … in addition to the fact that the USSR was the country that was critical to stopping Hitler’s war machine. I think no one denies the latter. Whether Putin has all of the history and surrounding happenings correct, I doubt; and neither may any of the other countries. All see these horrifying events from their own perspectives.

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Dear CCI Friends,

The New York Times (formerly considered America’s “Paper of Record”) has come out with yet another piece of propaganda which is unfounded, unverifiable, unsubstantiated by facts … and they assume that we, their readership, will believe them!

AMAZING!

Please email them yourself,  “NYTimes. com” <nytimes@e.newyorktimes.com>,and let them know we need them to return to their original excellent reporting and stop putting these types of made-up stories in the minds of unthinking American people. It is not only fallacious, it is dangerous to demonize a country with similar numbers of nuclear weapons.

We in America should be agreeing to sign Nuclear Weapons Treaties and practicing diplomacy with Russia rather than releasing such propaganda.

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Dear CCI Readers,

Today I happened to have a discussion with a VP of a large American corporation who traveled to Russia with CCI last year. At the end he remarked: “You know, I went to Russia to just see with my own eyes, what that country is all about today. Later, when my friends asked what I’d experienced, I told them the truth … and they couldn’t believe me, they thought I’d become a Putin or Russia lover!”

What a predicament! Educated, successful Americans can’t believe a friend who is telling them the truth. This is how over-dosed on propaganda we’ve been … not just recently but for decades.

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