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The Whip Hand (1951)
Communist immorality exposed
I first saw this film in 1952 and have seen several times since. It's one of those movies I always get a kick out of. Critics are right to argue that the plot has a couple of rather large holes. They are not right in denouncing it as McCarthyist propaganda. These deep leftist thinkers need to be reminded that the release of the Venona Papers largely vindicate McCarthy investigations. Sneering leftists also need reminding of the amount of communist aggression that the West was facing. For example, the communists insurgencies in Greece and Malaya, both backed by the Soviets. Then there was the takeover of Eastern Europe followed by imprisonment, torture and execution of opponents. Let us also not forget the 1948 Berlin Blockade, the Korean War, the Berlin uprising in 1953 and the 1956 Hungarian uprising that the Soviets ruthlessly crushed.
The Cold War was far from being cold and was the creation of an aggressive Soviet Union. Before any more mal-educated leftists decide to start sneering at this movie maybe they will tell us why they choose to ignore the 100,000,000, people that communist regimes murdered. (The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression, Harvard University Press,1999). Read this book and you might start thinking that this movie wasn't too far out after all.