Red Army: The Radical Network That Must Be Defeated to Save America

In this original investigative work, the bestselling authors of The Manchurian President expose one of the most important untold stories of the decade: how a nexus of radical socialist groups have seized political power, shaped Obama’s presidential agenda, and threaten the very future of our country.
For decades, a radical socialist movement has been quietly infiltrating the major institutions of American power: our schools, our military, our economy, our media, and Congress itself. This progressive Red Army is an organized network consisting of numerous specialized groups that target specific policy areas while cooperating more broadly in a concerted decades-long campaign to transform America.
Now, for the first time, investigative reporters Aaron Klein and Brenda J. Elliott not only expose the key players, organizations, and relationships in this radical network but chart their spheres of influence, their nefarious objectives, their role in shaping Barack Obama’s agenda, and their long-term plans for the nation.
Among some of their finds, Klein and Elliott reveal the existence of a powerful “Marxist-socialist” bloc in Congress (explicitly formed as an arm of the Democratic Socialists of America) and examine its far-reaching goals in policy areas that affect all Americans, including the complete socialization of health care and comprehensive immigration reform, which seeks to change the very nature of the American electorate. The authors expose the shocking misinformation campaign behind Obama’s economic policies, discussing the crafting of the massive “stimulus” legislation, as well as his plans for future economic “reform.”
In two chapters that every American must read, entirely new information is laid bare on the left’s unprecedented assault on our already over-liberalized education system. And in just one astonishing discovery, Klein and Elliott bring to light how federal stimulus money was used to fund an education group tied to radical educator (and unrepentant Pentagon bomber) Bill Ayers.
The authors also expose the multipronged policy offensive aimed at disarming America by emboldening our enemies within and without, spurning traditional allies, subjecting us to the authority of foreign tribunals, and systematically dismantling the U.S. military. The authors also detail how elements of the news media not only collude with these radical groups, but are in some cases members of the very same extremist organizations they ought to be investigating.
This radical network runs far deeper than the Obama administration and, if not stopped, will far outlast his presidency. From health care and manufacturing to immigration and environmental policy, Red Army documents how these radical groups are working to spread America’s wealth and transform the country into their vision of a socialist utopia.

Something I have never seen before - a Red Army cemetary in a German churchyard.
Jueterbog, a 12th century small town in the province of Brandenburg, has been a garrison town for centuries. The barracks vacated by the Wehrmacht were soon occupied by Soviet troops in 1945, and shockingly, many of the soldiers buried here died long after the war was over. The death rate at Soviet barracks in East Germany was notoriously high: malnutrition, accidents, inadequate medical care and suicide claimed their victims.
However, the inscription visible here says "Buried here is an unknown fighter of the Red Army", so we will assume he died defeating Nazi Germany.
There are 420,000 Soviet war graves in East Germany, at 850 locations.
When the 500,000 Soviet troops stationed here finally left Germany in the early 1990s, it was part of the government treaties that Germany would look after all Soviet war graves and memorials in the country. However, to make a new one - and at least the headstones look brand-new - is a voluntary effort on the part of Germany, and I find it quite remarkable.

Liebfrauenkirche (Church of Our Lady) was first consecrated in 1161, making it Jueterbog's oldest church. It has seen numerous changes over the centuries but still has some original parts.

Red Army soldiers who died in Gliwice in 1945 were buried at Sobieski Street. Necropolis consist of about 2.500 graves of soldiers from the Red Army who lost their lives fighting against Nazis in Upper Silesia. They were young people of different nationalities from the territories of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

They died in vast numbers, eight million men and women driven forward in suicidal charges, shattered by German shells and tanks. They were the soldiers of the Red Army, an exhausted mass of recruits who confronted Europe's most lethal fighting force and by 1945 had defeated it. For sixty years, their experiences were suppressed, replaced by patriotic propaganda. We know how the soldiers died, but nearly nothing about how they lived, how they saw the world, or why they fought. In this ambitious, revelatory history, Catherine Merridale uncovers the harrowing story of who these soldiers were, and how they lived and died during the war.