Posted on 08/03/2013 8:21:25 AM PDT by ReformationFan
I believe that he advocated a return to traditional Russian monarchy, and to simple rural agrarian life in some ways echoing Jefferson on the virtues of the latter.
It was a great film. Early seventies
You’re an interesting person SunkenCiv...
One question if you don’t mind... When you speak of Molotov - was he the same person who signed the Soviet-Nazi non-agression pact before WWII? And the person who the “molotov cocktail’ was named after? Just curious...
Saddam Hussein did and North Korea does things like that
Same guy. Von Ribbentrop and Molotov negotiated the non-aggression pact (how’d that work out?) to divide Poland, and both countries invaded. It triggered WWII — then nothing much happened for seven months or so. The Germans invaded Denmark and Norway early in April, and then began the whopping month of fighting that bagged Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and France.
At Dunkirk, Adumph lost his nerve (as he did in 1943 at Kursk) and failed to close out the war in the west by capturing the 300,000-man BEF. Although it took four years for the UK to recover from that (and with a lot of US help), capture of the entire army would have resulted in the collapse of the ramshackle British gov’t coalition, with or without a cross-channel invasion.
Then, instead of finishing up in North Africa, the Austrian pinhead thought it would be a better idea to invade the USSR.
Imagine that — despite the recent experience of the Russian front in WWI, and Napoleon’s self-destructive debacle a century before that, and (going back a bit more) the Persians’ attempt to subdue the Scythians by marching all over what is now the Ukraine until they felt the first breath of winter, he thought it would be a good idea.
Prevailing in North Africa was easily within their grasp; elimination of the British hold on the Suez Canal and the oil would have scratched the British Navy off the to-do list, as well as given the Reich and Axis (including Japan) all the fuel they’d need.
IOW, no Pearl Harbor, no Russian front (until they were fully mobilized and had eliminated all other threats), no D-Day...
It’s remarkable to contemplate, and I’m grateful he was such a dumbass.
Thanks GOPJ.
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Solzhenitsyn was invited to lunch at the White House in 1982, The lunch included other dissidents, but Solzhenitsyn was to have a preliminary meeting with Reagan. Solzhenitsyn turned down the invitation.
Solzhenitsyn was invited to lunch at the White House in 1982, The lunch included other dissidents, but Solzhenitsyn was to have a preliminary meeting with Reagan. Solzhenitsyn turned down the invitation.Wow, that's too bad.
He was one of the good guys, helped expose evil in an excellent fashion.
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