And then there were the little matters of the crushing of the 1953 East Berlin workers' uprising, the 1956 invasion of Hungary, the building of the Berlin Wall and the invasion of Afghanistan. In September 1989 hundreds of 'peace loving' thugs stormed the Nurrungar base with the sole intention of destroying a vital link in the democracies' defence network. The real irony here is that as the assault was taking place the Soviet empire was rapidly disintegrating. When the communist state finally collapsed, freeing its people from more that 70 years of totalitarian oppression, I bet a friend that the world's so-called peace movements would now quickly and quietly disappear from the global stage. And so they did.
Readers can now decide for themselves who the real enemy was.
John Zubrycki, Robert Garran and Cameron Stewart were the three journalists who tried to make a molehill out of this American report. Yet not one of them even alluded to the Soviet connection. Note how Stewart has slyly shifted to the pro-Soviet accusation that Nurrungar was part of an American first strike plan. And I am far from being alone in holding this dismal view. This would be like the 1930s Soviet-run peace movement organising an attack on Britain's radar defences.