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Posted on Samedi 2 mars 2013
Andrew Roberts, sur le livre de Robert Gellately, Stalin’s Curse, Knopf, 2013
Who started the Cold War? For the first two decades after it began, the answer seemed obvious: Stalin’s Soviet Union was responsible for dismantling the wartime alliance against Hitler as soon as World War II was over and deliberately launching a costly struggle for global supremacy between communism and capitalism. Then, in the late 1960s, a revisionism set in among Western academics and intellectuals who attempted to absolve the Russians and—in the spirit of time—place the blame on Presidents Truman and Eisenhower, NATO, the CIA and America’s « military-industrial complex. »
Fortunately, with the Cold War finally won in 1992, the opening of the Russian archives provided chapter and verse for the truth: that the Cold War had indeed been started by Stalin. True, there are still leftists holding out for the revisionist theory. They are reminiscent, appropriately enough, of Romania’s Securitate secret police, who carried on sniping from upper windows in Bucharest after the regime of Nicolae Ceauşescu had fallen. Now fondly held theories of American guilt receive a devastating blow from an impeccably researched and cogently argued book proving that, in the dawn of the Cold War, « Moscow made all the first moves and that if anything the West was woefully complacent until 1947 or 1948, when the die was already cast. » (Lire la suite…)
