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July 21st, 2012, 04:41 PM | #1881 | |
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I once read that the French High Command refused to instal radio equipment on the grounds that transmissions would attract enemy action.So it wasn't in direct touch with the army in the field. |
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As regards the orphans, this episode was much more recent and a big scandal both in the UK and in Australia when it became public knowledge, and also the malignant role played by the so-called Christian Brothers. Of course I instinctively recoil from this, as do all right-thinking people in Britain, Australia or anywhere else. I never said my own country is perfect or that it ever was perfect. I am not offended that you have made a valid criticism. But just as Russia is your country, Britain is mine and for all their faults we are both proud of our countries and have a valid cause to be proud of them. WW2 was an event which totally remoulded the shape of the world. Russia was one of the gainers and Britain one of the biggest losers; but I would not change the decision to fight Hitler to the bitter end for any consideration. The Empire was indefensible (morally) and had to go; at least this way it went with a bang and not with a whimper. As for my own country, it may be a has-been but that's better than a never-was.
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1 Cool uniforms 2 Great tanks, panther tiger etc 3 Great planes Me 262, FW 109 etc 4 Music Beethoven etc 5 Technical innovation V1 V2 etc What's not to like Oh yeah |
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But would I hate him? I doubt it. No doubt he was a Communist out of conviction; it's hardly likely he would have made it to top rank if he was at all unreliable. But whatever my views of Communism, I don't extrapolate to say that I must therefore hate Communists because that would just be silly. I can distinguish between a man and his politics, as long as those politics are not inherently criminal and morally vicious, as with neo-Nazis for example. Zhukov was a really first class general, whose record speaks for itself. Of course he was ruthless and by no means economical with his mens' lives; but neither was he some thuggish imbecile wedded to human wave tactics. There is recorded evidence of him dealing drastically with subordinate generals who were thugs wedded to human wave tactics; he had no use for idiots such as these. Neither did he have no humanity; when he found that the newly conquered population of Berlin were on the edge of dying from starvation, he fed them, because it was no part of his philosophy that his enemies were subhuman or that even his enemies did not deserve to eat. He was no milk-and-water liberal, but I see no reason to hate him. Given the stuff he and his country had suffered, I would consider him reasonable and fair.
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