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Posted By: Hazymac, 5/10/2026 9:31:42 AM

I love the TCM cable channel, but it has a glaring blind spot for Communism. Last week it put that glaring blind spot on display in its broadcast of Saul Turrell’s Oscar-winning 1979 documentary Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist. Introducing the film, host Dave Karger referred to difficulties in Robeson’s career as a result of his devotion to “civil rights.” The documentary is posted here. I haven’t double checked to confirm that it covers Robeson’s trips to the Soviet Union. However, it shows Robseson going to Spain to sing for the Republican forces. Toward the end it shows him singing a Chinese Red Army marching song that became the regime’s

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Reply 1 - Posted by: earlybird 5/10/2026 10:24:44 AM (No. 2102751)
No. Never.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: voxpopuli 5/10/2026 10:28:11 AM (No. 2102753)
stabbed his own country in the back.. darling of the NYC elitists...
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Venturer 5/10/2026 10:41:37 AM (No. 2102766)
A black male version of Jane Fonda.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Ida Lou Pino 5/10/2026 11:17:59 AM (No. 2102788)
Robeson was temporarily lost by his soviet handlers during a Potemkin visit to a political prison. When he was alone with the prisoners - - they told him all the horrors of the mass murders being committed by Stalin. In spite of this first-hand litany of mass murder - - Robeson remained loyal to the communist and Stalinist cause. He was an utterly despicable human being - - and only a delusional, commie-leaning network like TCM could ver pay tribute to him. TCM's constant references to "witch hunts" in Hollywood are sickeningly nauseating.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Sunhan65 5/10/2026 11:22:28 AM (No. 2102792)
Paul Robeson was the enormously talented entertainer, and emblematic of his times. He graduated with a degree in law from Rutgers University at a time when black Americans were being treated as subhuman by large parts of our country. The number of highly intelligent and otherwise decent people who were hoodwinked by communism under Stalin includes a large list of names, many of whom had other virtues. Joseph E. Davis wrote a ludicrously bad book about his time as US Ambassador to Stalin's Soviet Union. As part of pro war filmmaking during our alliance with Stalin, it was made into a truly dishonest and unintentionally hilarious movie. However, Davis was extraordinarily smart and prescient about Japan, which he knew well, and how to conduct our war with them. That they were wrong is beyond dispute. However, they were not all evil or stupid. And some of them were prodigiously talented.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: marbles 5/10/2026 11:44:58 AM (No. 2102808)
Ever since Robert Osborn died TMC has swung left. Funny thing is, Ted Turner, founder of TCM is being honored tonight on TCM tonight ( they axed tonights tribute to mothers nighttime movies ) to show Ted favorite movie and the first one broadcast....." Gone with the Wind ".
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