More Bouwman!

And the hits just keep coming from the Oklahoman's resident Nazi/Soviet historian. Yes, Ronald Bouwman has again written in and gotten a letter published. Not surprisingly, it's a critique of President Obama. He writes:

History is indeed repetitious. Many events illustrate appeasement's bitter fruits, most notably the Munich Agreement of Sept. 29, 1938, which disgraced Great Britain’s Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain forever. After Munich, the USSR, based on a nonaggression pact with Nazi Germany, attacked Poland; Germany responded with her own attack on Poland, and World War II was under way. For her safety and convenience, the USSR would change its alliance to one with Great Britain, the USA, and others. Events leading to the agreement are traceable to World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution and the formation of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in March of 1919.

So... a history lesson of sorts for the readers of the Oklahoman. Naturally, Bouwman gets his facts wrong. For instance, Germany invaded Poland first, then the USSR. And the USSR didn't so much change its alliance "for her safety and convenience" as though it were some willy-nilly choice made on a whim-- it did so because the Germans invaded them!! And how on earth was the pact between the USSR and Nazi Germany traceable to the Bolshevik Revolution in 1919?? Shouldn't editors check these things before publishing them?!?

Of course, we see where Bouwman is going with the line about "the formation of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic" but how is any of this connected? Is the formation of the Soviet Ukrainian state really the catalyst for World War II?!?

He goes on:

The Soviet participation on the Allies' side in World War II encouraged leftist apologists and deniers in the U.S. to dismiss the Bolshevik reign of terror throughout the earlier decades of the 20th century. Among these were the “Holodomor” of 1932-1933, when the USSR seized most of the grain production of the Ukraine, causing the starvation of 7 million.

Uh, what? Is there really a connection between the USSR's alliance with the US and Great Britain in World War II and some sort of "dismissal" of Soviet atrocities?? And again with the Ukraine thing.

And then:

Today, the USSR appears to be under reconstruction and we have our own Chamberlains. Russian warships are again appearing in the Crimean. Yes, when ignored by fools, history repeats.

Wait. So now this is the USSR all over again? And are we now supposed to imagine that Obama is Neville Chamberlain?!? WHY NOT JUST SAY "I DON'T LIKE HOW OBAMA IS HANDLING THE SITUATION IN THE CRIMEAN" and be DOEN WITH IT?? What's with the factually-challenged history lesson?!? Would any real newspaper run a letter like this? From the SAME GUY who writes in EVERY MONTH to complain about Nazis and soviets?!?!?