Why was the execution of the Rosenbergs so controversial?
They essentially gave the Soviet Union the atom bomb and endangered the lives of billions.
Why was the execution of the Rosenbergs so controversial?
Michael Roberts
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Connor Cox
Pretty blatant anti-semitism carried out by Jews
Cameron Baker
>oy vey goyim yes we gave the soviets secrets but you are anti semitic bastids!
Josiah Ramirez
Clumsy, corrupt process that at the time must have clearly appeared to be Red Scare hysteria. Add onto that how barbaric the death penalty is, and it's not difficult to see it as government officials trying to frighten the American public into deferring to the national security apparatus.
>At a secret meeting on February 8, 1950, twenty senior government officials met to discuss the Rosenberg case. Gordon Dean, the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, stated: "It looks as though Rosenberg is the king pin of a very large ring, and if there is any way of breaking him by having the shadow of a death penalty over him, we want to do it." Myles Lane, a member of the prosecution team, said that the case against Ethel Rosenberg was "not too strong", but that it was "very important that she be convicted too, and given a stiff sentence".[23]
John Carter
>Clumsy, corrupt process that at the time must have clearly appeared to be Red Scare hysteria.
This. They were guilty, but he way the case was handled was pretty fucked up. They were essentially framed unnecessarily for crimes they committed and punished harshly to serve as an example during the Red Scare.
Colton Ramirez
I'm more worried about why this is cherry picked out for highschool history books.
Carter Miller
Adrian Turner
It was controversial because the Jews display a high amount of ethnic solidarity, and the Jews used the media to make the issue controversial.
Jews always side with Jews even when they're guilty. See: Jonathan Pollard, Leo Frank.
Chase Thompson
because "you know who" cries out in pain as he strikes you
Jonathan Adams
>framed unnecessarily for crimes they committed
wut
Mason Richardson
>Reds are literally infiltrating America and just stole the blueprints for the most potent weapon in human history, ensuring nuclear proliferation and condemning generations to live under the threat of atomic annihilation
>You're hysterical if you point this out though
Caleb Evans
their two surviving sons were interviewed on TV recently.
Lincoln Peterson
The guy who got them sizzled was a jew though
James Russell
Jews aren't a hivemind obviously. I'm sure there were plenty of Jewish patriots who wanted to see them fry.
Grayson Walker
>They essentially gave the Soviet Union the atom bomb and endangered the lives of billions.
Yet MAD prevented anything more than petty proxy wars between the two powers. If you want to play "may haves" with them endangering the lives of billions, then you also have to consider that them having the bomb prevented the deaths of millions.
Jacob Garcia
they smuggled billions of dollars of nuclear secrets to the Soviets. The only controversy is historical revisionism by liberal History """""teachers"""" who use it as a convienent footnote in the history of American bigotry.
Elijah Nelson
It's not a contradiction. If I murder someone and you have no evidence but decide to create false evidence for the sake of having me convicted, then I was both guilty and framed.
Gavin Watson
Not a hivemind, just an endangered ethnic group that stands in solidarity with what is good for their survival. All of the "Jewish" patriots probably ignore their heritage in favor of a western one. Even then, there are hardly any ethnic jews who don't support Zionism.
Jonathan Cox
Same with blacks.
Tyler Nguyen
As soon as we start cutting corners on our most fundamental principals whenever a strategic rival is strengthened then we have truly entered decline.
Jeremiah Murphy
Bullshit fagurt
Joshua Garcia
Thats not the reason I graduated from high school in 2008 and there was as much dedicated to these two as it was actual battles of WW1
Nolan Flores
>Add onto that how barbaric the death penalty is
fag
Lucas Torres
>CTRL+F = The Holocaust was a mere 8 years ago.
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Well it was also a hysterical trial that couldve been avoided and just chucked the two into the chair/firing squad/gallows/whatever Americans killed death convicts with back then.
Brody Ross
>there are hardly any ethnic jews who don't support Zionism.
Less than 16% of the Jewish population of Massachusetts supports the existence of Israel, and it has one of the largest Jewish populations in the union.
There's also tons of famous Jews that fantastically speak out against Zionism, such as Noam Chomsky, who's so regularly vilified around here.
Easton Cox
The U.S had way way way way way more spies in USSR and their allies then the reverse.
Jayden Adams
Treason deserves only the most drastic of punishment and capital punishment has always been the standard. They should have been quartered or something far worse.
Christian Rogers
Why were so many jews communist spies anyways?
Grayson Campbell
[Citation needed]
>B-but you can't name a single spy!
en.wikipedia.org
Who cares when the Holocaust happened? The fact that the Germans killed a bunch of Jews is irrelevant to the fact that they were agents of a foreign power acting against the American People.