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1918: Bolo Pasha
ExecutedToday.com ^ | April 17, 2020 | Headsman

Posted on 04/17/2024 12:58:31 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat

French adventurer Bolo Pasha (English Wikipedia entry | French) was shot at Fort Vincennes on this date in 1918 as a World War I German agent.

Paul Bolo was his proper name, and a striving, wandering soul was his fatal curse. “A rolling stone that gathered no moss,” says this chronicler of the Great War’s spies, “and for sheer audacity, bold resourcefulness and indifference to fate his career matched, if it did not surpass, the strangest characters depicted by the master pen of Dumas.”

He’d spent his youth in Marseilles, and subsequently Lyon, repeatedly going bust in several attempted businesses — barber, soap-seller, lobsterman, photographer, silk manufacturer. But his charm and enterprise successfully landed him the hand of a wealthy Parisian widow and with the inheritance she eventually left him, he took himself to Cairo and made himself a good chum of the European-friendly Khedive who ruled that place as an Ottoman viceroy.....

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: psychomaximus; russia

1 posted on 04/17/2024 12:58:31 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
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To: CheshireTheCat

“And so at the conclusion of their little interview Mr. Clemenceau escorted Bolo Pasha to the Forest of Vincennes, and placing him with his back to a wall, compelled him to face the business end of twelve French rifles. Bolo Pasha will never betray another nation. I want to tell you Americans that that is the only way to treat a traitor!”

Sound advice for dealing with those who openly hate and subvert America while working for the interests of Moscow.


2 posted on 04/17/2024 1:03:10 PM PDT by MeganC ("Russians are subhuman" - posted by Kazan 8 March 2024)
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To: MeganC
Sound advice for dealing with those who openly hate and subvert America while working for the interests of Moscow.

Moscow or any other foreign organization. Including those in the Western Hemisphere.

3 posted on 04/17/2024 2:31:45 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: MeganC

>> while working for the interests of Moscow. <<

while working for the interests of the Democrat Party.


4 posted on 04/17/2024 2:36:23 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: 353FMG

Agreed.


5 posted on 04/17/2024 2:55:25 PM PDT by MeganC ("Russians are subhuman" - posted by Kazan 8 March 2024)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

Yup. WEF, CFR, AARP, GLBTQ, etc.


6 posted on 04/17/2024 2:56:45 PM PDT by MeganC ("Russians are subhuman" - posted by Kazan 8 March 2024)
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