Posted on 01/30/2020 8:20:32 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie
I didn’t see any British officers there.”” “”
You didn’t see the British intelligence officers when Trump shook hands with notorious Ukrainian oligarchs at some dinner. It doesn’t mean the British officers weren’t involved into getting Trump and these nasty people into the same place at the same time before the cameras and or it doesn’t mean that these people share some common agenda with Trump.
I agree completely. Hitler and Stalin had an agreement to carve up eastern Europe for themselves and were allies at first. Stalin would have went right along with Hitler in knocking another major power out of play. So often forgotten is how Stalin invaded Finland as Germany invaded Poland. Stalin too annexed parts of Poland (and kept it after the war).
It is interesting on that aspect. Surprisingly the voters did not realize that voting for Labor would result in the removal of Churchill. It was towards the end of the war. The population was tired of privation and lack of housing. They bought what Labor was selling. Other note...rationing continued for another ten years in England. Here is the US..pretty much within minutes of the end of the war...rationing was eliminated. (Slight exaggeration perhaps, but pretty quick.)
But then Poland had similar pact with Hitler and a year before annexed Czechoslovakia with the Germans.
Of course the history of Europe is extremely complicated. There were many wars, conflicts, border changes, annexations, and re-annexations.
It all got much more serious when the two biggest players, Germany and the Soviet Union, began absorbing whole countries and betraying everyone.
Annexation is annexation no matter big or small. As for betrayal I have no idea. I thought Chamberlain was an expert at betrayal. It is not German, Russian, Polish or Czech name.
Thanks for putting me on the path with your topic!
National Geographic is sh*t now, politically correct, and “woke”.
Myself as well. For JFK I was 6 and for Winston I was 7. I vividly recall the huge headline in a local paper I saw Man of the Century dies.
Of all the Churchill speeches I’ve heard, this is one of my favorites. It’s 35 minutes, but well worth the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhUXdolcIPQ
Why do you continue this babbling nonsense? Did your mother never teach one of the most important golden rules of civilized behavior-don’t be a know-it-all?
You are placing words in my mouth I don’t say, seemingly misconstrue what I do say, and twist it all around so you can be the only one right. It has passed into annoyance.
NOTHING I have said is incorrect. I merely note ACTUAL events that happen. History is filled with this-or-that, coulda/woulda/shoulda, and what-if. Nobody is 100% perfect, and nobody’s hands are blood-free in this world.
Now take 3 or 4 valiums and go lay down.
And, for the record, I DO NOT agree that “annexation is annexation big or small.”
Hitler’s absorption of entire countries was MUCH more serious than Poland’s relatively tiny parcels as it showed the Nazi tendency for hideously aggressive expansion in order to build a totalitarian superstate.
And THAT is the real reason war broke out. HITLER. And he mostly helped the Allies win with his horrible decisions.
I was an Oxford undergraduate at the time of the funeral. After the ceremony the coffin was taken to be interred at the churchyard in Blenheim, near Oxford, the home of the Churchill family. It was carried in a special train: a single open truck pulled by a steam loco, both black, at walking pace, with four guardsmen standing with arms reversed at the corners. I went to see it pass at a small rural level crossing a few miles away. There was a small, silent group of a score or so others also there. A not-to-be-forgotten experience.
That was a horrible decade. Horrible.
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