Posted on 06/20/2006 11:43:01 AM PDT by sergey1973
Also, let's recall the 1944 assassination attempt on Hitler by Claus fon Stauffenberg et al. ? The plotters where Wehrmaht officers who initially were faithful Nazis, but realizing that the war was futile, wanted to finish Hitler off. Whatever their motives where, the end result could have been earlier end of WWII and literally millions of lives saved.
http://www.answers.com/topic/july-20-plot
"She became a political revolutionary at an early age and joined a socialist group, the Socialist Revolutionaries. In 1906, Kaplan participated in an attempted assassination of a government official."
She was a socialist, criminal, attempted murderess. Despite your opinion of her target(s), she was nothing more than a common criminal. Heroine? Bullshit.
Well put. My view is, if the enemies wants to fight among themselves, sell them the rope. :')
BookMark for Sidney Reilley posts
Kaplan was no hero. None of them were. They only advocated slightly different timeline and approaches towards the same end. “The first conspicuous act of government-ordered reprisals on a large scale without regard for individual guilt came after the assassination of Michael Uritzky and the attempt on Lenin’s life on August 30 [by Kaplan]. These events were not in themselves apt to justify measures against the bourgeoisie, for the two assassins, Kenigiesser and Fania Kaplan, were both members of the Social Revolutionary party and therefore not “bourgeois.” [...] Five hundred hostages were shot in reprisal in Petrograd alone by order of Zinoviev, the head of the local soviet. On September 5, the people’s commissars officially legalized the red terror...” (Landauer, European Socialism: A History of Ideas and Movements).
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