Heckuva story....
Posted on 03/30/2021 6:05:42 AM PDT by Kaslin
Now that King Kong is back in action in a new blockbuster, the super-hyped Godzilla vs Kong, with a mammoth budget matching the scale of the two protagonists (some $160 to $200 million), patriots should note who the real hero of the Kong saga is.
It’s not the fictional monster pitted against the rapacious, prehistoric reptile. No, it’s the man who created Kong: aviator, explorer, and film producer Merian C. Cooper.
Cooper (1893-1973) was a bomber pilot in the First World War. He invented a unique artillery-spotting technique—flying close to ground level to draw enemy fire. Shot down in flames behind enemy lines, he greeted the armistice in a prison hospital. The German physicians who repaired his face had done an excellent job of plastic surgery. His hands remained noticeably scarred.
In the aftermath of the Great War, a fearsome, monstrous revolutionary philosophy streamed westward out of Moscow. It was called Bolshevism. Reporting for duty, Cooper requested assignment to Herbert Hoover’s American Relief Administration and was put in charge of humanitarian efforts in southern Poland.
No armistice was in effect in the former empire of the czars. The Poles, having declared their independence, were battling like David against the Bolshevik Goliath. Women, children, and the elderly manned the barricades in besieged cities. Teenage boys and pre-teens organized a Schoolboy Legion and took their places in the trenches.
This was no mere border conflict. The Bolsheviks were determined to sweep through Poland to spread their revolution from Eastern Europe to the Western democracies. A Southern gentleman, a descendant of the aristocracy of the Old South and heir to a tradition of brazen gallantry, Merian Coldwell Cooper was not made to practice neutrality when women and children were fighting for hearth and home.
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Great story! Should make a fantastic movie.
What a story. The guy was a genius and fearless to boot.
Where are today’s Coopers? We may see them in the coming years, because it seems there are great battles looming right here.
Heckuva story....
He was shot down 3x flying for the Poles in the Russo Polish war of 1920. Captured on the third one he was held by Budenny’s Red Cavalry and interrogated by Issac Babel, a war correspondent, writer and later a film producer too. Some think he was executed in 1940 for sleeping with the wife of the head of the NKVD and not trumped up spy charges.
I use Cooper as a teaser in week 1 of my Russian Civil War class and explain it in week 8.
Hollywood celebs today would shun his accomplishments.
He defeated communism and supported America.
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