Your ingorance is most regrettable. France fell in half the time that it took the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, with no one to help, attacked by Germans, Moussolin's fascists, Hungairan nazi collaborators, Bulgarian nazi collaborators, and Albanian nazi collaborators, to be occupied. Our great firends of the last 2 decades, Croatians (who were Yugoslav citizens) welcomed the Wehrmach troups with flowers and cried "Danke Deutschland!" (Thank you Germany!).
The Yugoslav Royal Army reatreated into the woords and began guarrilla-style resistence immediately and three months after the occupation began transmitting first radio messages form the liberated territories of the occupied homeland. The only beacon of free territory in Europe!
The resistence movemnt of WWII Yugoslavia is a textbook example of resiliency. It tied numerous German divisions and was instrumental in causing Hitler to fatefully delay his invasion of the Soviet Union. Unlike the French, Dutch , Norwegian and other resistence movements, who limited thier operations to sabotage, the Germans mounted no less then seven major offensives aimed at erradicting the resistence. Easy pickings, right.
The Orthodox do not find pleasure or ustice in sin, and war is sin, the result of sin and perpetuated by sin. The west keeps trying the pagan and OT method of eye-for-an-eye, even though the God they call their own tells them otherwise. You don't erradicate evil by returning evil.
When cornered, the EO will resist because there is nothing else left to do. That doesn't mean they have to arrogate themselves the crown of justice. It's a necessary evil brought on by evil.
I really feel for you.
The resistance movement must have been from the Augustinian [just-war] wing of the EO, right????
Kosta: “Your igorance is most regrettable.”
Not regrettable ignorance, Kosta, contemptible. Sadly it is emblematic of the mindset which gave birth to the present disastrous foreign policy of Washington, started by Bush 41, advanced by the execrable Clinton and brought to its inevitable nadir by Bush 43. By the way, UC, one of my ancestors died on the walls of Constantinople at the side of Constantine XI in battle with the Eastern Barbarian Turks on May 29, 1453. He died for civilization and Christianity, UC. Generations of Eastern Christians have fought and died for that at the hands of the Mohammedans. What about you Protestants? How many centuries have you been suffering for Christianity and Christian civilization at the hands of Islam? You think that Western Protestantism has the right to scorn the sacrifice of the Eastern Romans? My God, no wonder we're in the state we're in!
UC, the Greek partisan resistance on Crete delayed Operation Barbarossa. Do you understand what that delay meant? Did they teach you about what went on in the Balkans during WWII? Did they teach you about October 28, 1940? Do you know what Ioannis Metaxas told Mussolini that day and what meaning that had for the ultimate triumph of the Allies in WWII? Do you know what Churchill had to say about the Greek and the Serbian partisans? Do you know what allies they were to the United States? Or are you just a Mohammedan supporting neo con with no understanding of history or culture beyond the Eastern seabord who thinks its just peachy that America picks up the tab for KLA terrorism against our Christian allies because that man Bush has been advised by his Saudi business partners that Islam is the Religion of Peace and its good for business?