Posted on 04/10/2014 2:19:58 PM PDT by kingattax
The new documentary Silence Patton: First Victim of the Cold War claims that General George Patton was murdered, possibly by the KGB, because he was vociferous in his desire to oppose the former Soviet Union.
Writer-director Robert Orlando said his goal was to “prove to the viewer that he was silenced because his views didn’t go along with the status quo.”
Patton died Dec. 21, 1945, as a result of injuries he suffered when he was traveling as a passenger in a car that was crushed by a two-ton truck. The rest of the people involved in the crash only sustained minor injuries.
Patton hated Josef Stalin, the Soviet leader, and his hatred made him enemies in the U.S. and Great Britain as well as the Soviet Union.
He is supposed to have said, "Tin politicians in Washington have allowed us to kick the hell out of one bastard (Adolf Hitler) and at the same time forced us to help establish a second one (Stalin) as evil or more evil than the first.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Tony,
He was very seriously injured:
Taken to a hospital in Heidelberg, Patton was discovered to have a compression fracture and dislocation of the third and fourth vertebrae, resulting in a broken neck and cervical spinal cord injury which rendered him paralyzed from the neck down. He spent most of the next 12 days in spinal traction to decrease spinal pressure. Although in some pain from this procedure, he reportedly never complained about it. All non-medical visitors, save for Patton’s wife, who had flown from the U.S., were forbidden. Patton, who had been told he had no chance to ever again ride a horse or resume normal life, at one point commented, “This is a hell of a way to die.” He died in his sleep of a pulmonary edema and congestive heart failure at about 18:00 on December 21, 1945.
[Axelrod, Alan (2006), Patton: A Biography, London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-1-4039-7139-5]
That is my own personl first undeniable truth of life: DON’T INVADE RUSSIA. just don’t.
Russia had decimated its male population to field so many.
Had they kept fighting they’d face a generational collapse where full ethnic Russians would be rare. IIRC, WW2 cost them roughly 75% of their martial age men.
In forums, I try to point out that Canada was fighting WWII for two years before FDR's politicking turned into Reality.
... whose only loyalty was to himself. He hated Whittaker Chambers for what he told Adolf Berle about Alger Hiss.
That’s a pretty good rule.
Let’s not forget.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_Northern_Virginia
The Army of Northern Virginia is one of the most respected military formations in American history. Although usually outnumbered, it won victories in the American Civil War at Fredericksburg, Second Manassas, Chancellorsville, and Cold Harbor. Additionally, it successfully drove the Army of the Potomac away from the “gates” of Richmond in the Seven Days Battles, effectively ending McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign in 1862. The army held out against long odds in the 1864 Overland Campaign and the Siege of Petersburg, inflicting grievous casualties on the opposing forces of Grant. These successes sometimes gave the army a psychological advantage over its enemies. However, the army was most defined by its commander, Robert E. Lee. To this day, the army and Lee are famed in Southern culture.
True true, but Stalin never was reluctant to kill off his own people. Well, he was Georgian so he wasn’t reluctant to kill off Russian people. Sort of like Napolean, being Corsican, wasn’t reluctant to to kill off the French. Or like Hitler, being Austrian, wasn’t reluctant to kill off Germans. Hmmm. Why does that principle remind me of Obama?
Hooah
They did this movie with George Kennedy as Patton...BRASS TARGET?
I think that the demand for “unconditional surrender” that was re-affirmed at every conference of the allied leadership was more of an attempt to prevent any one of the allies from cutting a separate peace deal wiith the axis powers.
I’m sure that’s true. As somebody, possibly Churchill, said, “The only thing worse than having allies is not having them.”
what did patton say about alcabiades?
I forgot
I don’t believe any further resources could have been devoted to the production of atomic weapons without a detrimental effect on the conventional war. You must also remember that at the time there was no guarantee that an atomic weapon was even possible.
I agree with you that Hitler’s greatest mistake was his premature invasion of the USSR. Had he waited until he had consolidated his invasion of France and at least subdued Britain he had a chance of victory (small after the US entered the war).
I believe that Hitler’s hatred of and belief in the inferiority of the Slavic races overcame his understanding of the dangers of a two front war.
“They were smart enough to infiltrate damn near every level of our gubmint were they not?” Not in 1945....BTW I am an old “Cold Warrior” and never underestimate the Reds.
I've heard this theory put forth previously, and it wasn't the russkies, but our side that took him out, because they felt he was a loose cannon.
Words to live by then as well as now.
HEAR,HEAR!
GEN Patton died from injuries sustained in an automobile accident. This “documentary” and the book written by Robert Wilcox are just fictional nonsense.
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