The Russian PE and the German Ajack were pretty good. The 8x Unertl used by some Marines in the Pacific was excellent, though more of a target rifle scope than a piece of military equipment.
Posted on 01/14/2020 4:34:22 PM PST by Daffynition
This too. Now Italy, under extreme pressure from Germany, adopted anti-Jewish laws in the late 1930s, but without that pressure, Italy would not have had those laws, there were many Jews serving in Mussolini's government up to that point.
Right, and I think that even at the theoretical level fascism isn’t racist, whereas Naziism has racism as its basis.
Interestingly, and as you probably know, Mussolini was a prominent socialist before becoming a fascist.
Of course, and also many Nazis started as Communists, Judge Freisler was even known as "That old Bolshevik" in Nazi circles.
The Russian PE and the German Ajack were pretty good. The 8x Unertl used by some Marines in the Pacific was excellent, though more of a target rifle scope than a piece of military equipment.
Communist propagandist Leon Trotskey developed and promoted the derogetory term *Nazi* in the late 1920s. The Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei NSDAP of the same period referred to themselves as NaSos, National Socialists. You are correct that the Russian Reds did not care to be reminded of their common origin, the source of the prominent red in the NSDAP flags and banners,
In German, the name was a derivitive derogatory word for a backward peasant, an awkward and clumsy person. It derived from Ignaz, a shortened version of Ignatius, which was a common name in the NaSos home region of Bavaria. Opponents seized on this, and the long-existing Sozi, to attach a dismissive nickname to the National Socialists; thus ignorant hillbilly socialists. See Wikipedia.
To the non-German speaking Russians, the term was pretty much meaningless, but to Germanic Austrians and Yiddish speakers, it was an effective barb; to todays ignorant and largely uneducated leftists, it means little, only what they hear from their fellow lefties, their fellow travelerrs, and you.
Just remember that when you use it, you're helping to spread Communist propaganda, Comrede.
He was not working an 8-hour day. That far north on the globe, Simuna was fortunate to have two or three good hours of shooting light after working himself into a good position while the Sun was not yet up at all, It did not help that it was during the coldest weather [-40 degrees] in Europe that Century.
Accordingly, many, around 200, of his shots were made up close using a 9mm KP31 machinepistol, often set to fire semiautomatic, using the same tactics he might have with his long rifle at a longer range, and just as effectively. Often, his target, rifle or mp, was a Soviet invader trying to warm himself by a fire. When the light of the fire went out to his vision, it was time to shoot.
KP31, The MOWING MACHINE OF TIKKAKOSKI
Simuna, back when he was in business:
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