The Rosenberg Traitors: 60 Years Later

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The Rosenberg Traitors: 60 Years Later

June 21, 2013 By Matthew Vadum

 

All those who treasure America’s liberties should solemnly observe the 60th anniversary this week of the execution of Communist spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

 

Given that the Soviet Union they spied for is no more, why are the Rosenbergs still important?

 

They continue to matter because they remain part of the Left’s anti-American mythology. The Left denied the treachery of its pseudo-martyrs for decades, arguing that they were condemned to death in a wave of anti-Communist hysteria.

 

Electrocuted at Sing Sing on June 19, 1953, the penalty they paid was more severe than the sentences handed down to other American traitors such as Alger Hiss, Robert Hanssen, and Aldrich Ames, who similarly jeopardized the nation by passing sensitive data to the Soviet Union during the Cold War. But the punishment meted out to the Rosenbergs was just because their actions led to the deaths of who knows how many Americans. http://frontpagemag.com/2013/matthew-vadum/the-rosenberg-traitors-60-years-later/