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Quotes from Paul Kengor

What was Ted Kennedy up to in May 1983 with that offer to Yuri Andropov via the KGB?
~ Paul Kengor
In the end, the actions of such liberals have the effect---again unwittingly---of continuing to cover for the goals of the extreme Left. Yet again, the soft Left is helping to conceal the hard Left, whether it realizes it or not.
~ Paul Kengor
As for Rome, it did not bend one bit. When in Romania the liberal priest Andrea Agotha convened a "Congress" of some forty Catholic clergy in the town of Targu Mures on April 27, 1950 to discuss creating a "democratic" (pro-Communist Party) Church, Pope Pius XII immediately excommunicated them once he received the news in Rome.513
~ Paul Kengor
He and his party initiated an aggressive push to create a "united front" led by communists and socialists attracting a broader coalition of liberals and fellow travelers.
~ Paul Kengor
The truth on the subject is that communism and atheism are intrinsically related and that one cannot be a good Communist without being an atheist and every atheist is a potential Communist
~ Paul Kengor
Karl Marx desired to ruthlessly criticize all that exists, to blow up traditional absolutes, and to invent an entirely new order.
~ Paul Kengor
The black man was expected to follow the dictates of Sol and the white masters. Good Negro communists were to be unquestioning Negro communists, who sat quietly and did as they were told. A good black communist listened to the white communist—his comradely master. For all their bluster about elevating blacks, this was how communists treated their African-American brothers.
~ Paul Kengor
The essence of what they said was that man made God, not God made man, and that the duty of every Communist is to rid himself of the supernatural bondage of religion; that religion is used by the powers that be in order to keep the masses of the people in docile submission to exploitation. Therefore, the liberation of the masses of humanity is dependent upon their emancipation from religious ideology.
~ Paul Kengor
Here, too, are some freaks who did harm in their own way. They have names not like Mao and Che and Fidel and the other usual suspects who the world already knows too well, but names like Crowley, Duranty, Hay, Reich, Benjamin, Alinsky, Millett, the Frankfurt School—more elusive targets off the radar, and who the world should know more about, at the least because they serve as subtle (or not so subtle) markers and cautionary tales of the consequences of these ideas.
~ Paul Kengor
She concentrated on the former East Germany, stronghold of the infamous secret police, the Stasi (the Ministry for State Security).
~ Paul Kengor
The criticism of religion disillusions man, so that he will think, act, and fashion his reality like a man who has discarded his illusions and regained his senses, so that he will move around himself as his own true Sun. Religion is only the illusory Sun which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself.
~ Paul Kengor
It was December 30, 1933, and the author of the Great Purge wined and dined Bullitt. At the end of a lovely evening together, FDR's new ambassador bade Stalin goodnight with a tender kiss on the cheek; the doting despot dutifully reciprocated.24
~ Paul Kengor
The Marxist maxim is 'agitate, agitate, agitate', and that is precisely what today's reds are doing with race.
~ Paul Kengor
Only in the detached from reality world of goofy Hollywood and modern academia could a mass murderer like Che Guevara be turned into something of a cult celebrity.
~ Paul Kengor