Suzanne Laben person
also: female version of Bowensky, Suzanne Labin, Suzanne Lebin, Suzanne LeBun, Levin, Le Ben, Ma'am Levin
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Claims (20)
Suzanne Laben carried_out_attack
Chiang Kai-shek book_quoted
“She went on to defend and justify the American intervention in Vietnam, eventually, as a fight against communism, of course. While continuing to defend Formosa, she publishes a series of brochures against communist China, denouncing any pro…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 12 @ 27:22
Suzanne Laben member_of
Section of France International book_quoted
“They've had a lot of time to perfect this operation. In the 1950s, Suzanne LeBun was fully aligned with the logic of the anti-communist, anti-Stalinist left. She was a member of the Section of France International, which it seems to have be…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 12 @ 18:09
Suzanne Laben member_of
Congress for Cultural Freedom book_quoted
“but she never left the network of the Congress for Cultural Freedom. She did remain a visible part of this organization, as well as several other prominent organizations in France that bridged the gap for coordination with the right-wing an…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 12 @ 20:09
Suzanne Laben member_of
World Anti-Communist League book_quoted
“under the banner of League of Liberty and the International Conference on Political Warfare, an organization of which she was the president and which formed the World Anti-Communist League. Of course, she was intimately affiliated with the …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 12 @ 30:49
Suzanne Laben headed
International Conference on Political Warfare book_quoted
“under the banner of League of Liberty and the International Conference on Political Warfare, an organization of which she was the president and which formed the World Anti-Communist League. Of course, she was intimately affiliated with the …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 12 @ 30:49
Suzanne Laben member_of
Committee International for Action of Society book_quoted
“for Action of Society, which is abbreviated CIAS. This network was part of that Peace and Liberty organization, excuse me, organization that John Paul David created. So they're all one big happy family. And if you go back and look at her hi…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 12 @ 31:16
Suzanne Laben carried_out_attack
Soviet Union book_quoted
“In those writings, she violently denounced the Moscow trials, provoking a deep rupture at the heart of the League of Human Rights at a Congress in 1937 with Michael Alexander and Leon Emery resigning from the League as a result of the fract…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 12 @ 8:03
Suzanne Laben carried_out_attack
Joseph Stalin book_quoted
“She basically accused him of creating a country-wide concentration camp and also criticized him using a phrase that she coined called the land of the workers and that there was no notion of humanity in anything that was set up in the Soviet…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 12 @ 11:33
Suzanne Laben carried_out_attack
China book_quoted
“She went on to defend and justify the American intervention in Vietnam, eventually, as a fight against communism, of course. While continuing to defend Formosa, she publishes a series of brochures against communist China, denouncing any pro…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 12 @ 27:22
Suzanne Laben carried_out_attack
Chile book_quoted
“A continuing concern with communist subversion, she writes about in the 1970s, which led to her defending the regime of General Penashe in Chile was combined with denunciation of international terrorism and a vibrant defense of Israel. So a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 12 @ 29:19
Suzanne Laben carried_out_attack
Salvador Allende book_quoted
“A continuing concern with communist subversion, she writes about in the 1970s, which led to her defending the regime of General Penashe in Chile was combined with denunciation of international terrorism and a vibrant defense of Israel. So a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 12 @ 29:19
Suzanne Laben carried_out_attack
Vietnam book_quoted
“She went on to defend and justify the American intervention in Vietnam, eventually, as a fight against communism, of course. While continuing to defend Formosa, she publishes a series of brochures against communist China, denouncing any pro…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 12 @ 27:22
Suzanne Laben carried_out_attack
Israel book_quoted
“A continuing concern with communist subversion, she writes about in the 1970s, which led to her defending the regime of General Penashe in Chile was combined with denunciation of international terrorism and a vibrant defense of Israel. So a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 12 @ 29:19
Suzanne Laben carried_out_attack
Joseph McCarthy book_quoted
“Here's its writing. This is how bad the Soviet Union is. Well, if you actually cared about how bad the Soviet Union is, you'd care about how bad all governments are. And you would write across the board about oppression. But she doesn't do …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 12 @ 24:47
Suzanne Laben carried_out_attack
Algerian War book_quoted
“Side note, also the anti-communist struggle in the name of democracy was not a mobilizing force for those circles affected by the defense of French Algeria, not a cause for which Le Pen was fighting. She ultimately would, she stood out for …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 12 @ 36:12
Suzanne Laben carried_out_attack
First Indochina War book_quoted
“She even included a lot of military jargon in order to make it more believable that she had consulted with the military and that she was talking with authority on psychological operations. Laben evokes neither Indochina nor Algeria in any o…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 12 @ 23:17
Suzanne Laben carried_out_attack
Soviet Union book_quoted
“on the wife of his wife. Levin immersed herself in political meetings during the course of her studies. She published a study on the death penalty in the Soviet Union in June of 1940. Having strenuously denounced Stalin, she attacked the re…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 12 @ 11:01
Suzanne Laben carried_out_attack
Soviet Union book_quoted
“So in this context, along with the signing of the Nazi-Soviet pact, that they welcomed the young Suzanne Labin, who published a study in three installments about the culture of this fraction. The editorial note introduces, is instructive in…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 12 @ 8:33
Suzanne Laben carried_out_attack
Soviet Union book_quoted
“Her future publications, Stalin the Terrible, she deliberately included numerous quotations with the aim of revealing the extent to which Stalin's personality cult was perpetuated within the Parisian intellectual scene. She was well known w…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 12 @ 10:02
Suzanne Laben exposed
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“Popular Front's organized journey, attack on anti-communist special schools, like the School of Americas, violent means, she asked the question, what can be done to counteract Soviet political warfare? She just described the CIA and the Wor…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 7 @ 37:10
Mentions (28)
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with social democrat christian democrat circles from europe and laban herself had in um had a background in the french social democrat networks the brazilian admiral henna bota b-o-t-t-o known for his anti-communist um…
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Familiar? That's exactly what the Peace and Freedom Organization that we were just talking about the last two days. They promote democracy and human rights. And in their wake, millions of people died. I'm not convinced at all they care abou…
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by their former boss, the German BND, Reinhard Galen. And the Inter-American Confederation of Continental Defense, that's a lot. Also, that kind of was a subset of the Latin American Congress. Susan Laban was also present. Soviet immigrants…
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If it's as evil as you say it is, why do you need a propaganda campaign to say it's evil? It literally makes no sense. And when something makes no sense, it's generally speaking a lie. That's just the way it is. So anyway, so the female ver…
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And the title of this essay is 50 Years of Anti-Communist Agitation. So here's a preview. She is literally the female version of Bowensky. So she was born in 1913. Weirdly enough, what an odd year to be born and died in 2001. She's largely …
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ranks of the anti-communist professionals, many of which we've covered, like the China lobby, Claire Chenault, his wife, Anne Chenault, those were the front ranks of the anti-communist professionals. And she certainly had a front row seat a…
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occupied, is all along in here yet, because he's going to love this part. She occupied the seat. Now, Bowensky was kind of positioned to be the far right version of this. She's positioned to be the far left. And again, that matters when you…
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You have to have both versions and they have to be controlled by the same people. So she deserves more attention to track the remarkable trajectory of her activities and to bring into sharper focus her writings on communism. This essay cove…
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and an herbalist mother who raised her alone. And again, this type of dysfunctional family is very familiar with radical people that they then use to create their agenda. The first text published by Suzanne Lebin was an article that basical…
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In 1939, she published this in an eight-page monthly journal that was defending pacifism because they have to first establish her bona fides as a leftist. So they do that by starting her writing in a journal that was very well known for tha…
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In those writings, she violently denounced the Moscow trials, provoking a deep rupture at the heart of the League of Human Rights at a Congress in 1937 with Michael Alexander and Leon Emery resigning from the League as a result of the fract…
▶ 8:33
So in this context, along with the signing of the Nazi-Soviet pact, that they welcomed the young Suzanne Labin, who published a study in three installments about the culture of this fraction. The editorial note introduces, is instructive in…
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some reproach us for our anti-Stalinism. We have indeed fought against Stalinistics, just as we have hoped to put people on guard against their duplicity and effectively denounce them as warmongers. Now that the proof is there, we will not …
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which form the resume of a doctrinal thesis that we were sent, incidentally, last July, remain the most instructive analysts of that which may yet in our time be the blindness of masses in the ideology of leaders. So again, it's critical th…
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Her future publications, Stalin the Terrible, she deliberately included numerous quotations with the aim of revealing the extent to which Stalin's personality cult was perpetuated within the Parisian intellectual scene. She was well known w…
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It depended on the support of Eduardo Labin, whom Suzanne married at the age of 19, in order from 1933 on to develop a network among students and to develop an audience for his review called The Critique of Society. It is obviously difficul…
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on the wife of his wife. Levin immersed herself in political meetings during the course of her studies. She published a study on the death penalty in the Soviet Union in June of 1940. Having strenuously denounced Stalin, she attacked the re…
▶ 11:33
She basically accused him of creating a country-wide concentration camp and also criticized him using a phrase that she coined called the land of the workers and that there was no notion of humanity in anything that was set up in the Soviet…
▶ 12:05
But his Jewish identity of Romanian origin and his association with acts of resistance perpetuated by the group surrounding Andrei Wilkariol pushes the couple to immigrate to none other than Argentina, where Suzanne Labin spends the whole o…
▶ 12:33
which is where all of the Nazis enter Latin America towards the end of the war and in the immediate aftermath. She establishes contact there, which later proved fundamental, one of which is Octavio Gonzalez Wara, R-O-U-R-A. He was the co-fo…
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publication in 1934 that was published monthly on liberty in Argentina, which sounds exactly like that peace and liberty thing that we talked about several chapters ago. It looks like it and just a little bit of research that I did to be a …
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My Argentina Hurts, that was the name of the article. And she wrote it about Octavio and said that his democratic convictions, which are coupled with socialist inspirations, kind of love their democracy, and are of a kind that might be expr…
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Alfredo Palencio. Levin also paid homage to Argentina, quote, during the Nazi war, I have had the pleasure of living in a prosperous Argentina. I remain grateful to the men and women of this magnificent country for having welcomed me and tr…
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unquote. She goes on to start talking about the Soviet Union from Stalin to Gorbachev, saying that to track how her thinking on communism evolved over the course of several decades, it was important to look at her work throughout that entir…
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to her work. There's basically a dual emphasis on both the figure of the Soviet dictator at the time and the regime in all of her work. So she treated them like on a dual track with each other. Her education as a chemist, she understood how…
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method of research that is necessary in order to establish the truth, regardless of the circumstances. There is no conceivable reason for the truth to always and precisely reside in a happy medium. Confusing objectivity and neutrality would…
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Levin is therefore objective, but she is not neutral. Levin's aim is not just to denounce Stalinism, but also to contrast it with a rational and human socialism. The author's objective is to reconstruct democracy by endowing it with a, quot…
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to the increase in the number of citizens, the complexity of confessions and flowering of resources. So in other words, she has the scientific background, as did our other guy, to write as if they're using scientific logic and arguments whe…