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Posted on 09/19/2004 7:44:37 PM PDT by SAMWolf
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 are acknowledged, affirmed and commemorated.
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REVOLUTION  Lenin Russia's treaty with Germany ends fighting on the Eastern Front. But from 1918 to 1920, civil war rages in Russia -- with the anti-communist forces receiving support from the West and elsewhere as part of an unsuccessful attempt to oust the Bolsheviks. Following Lenin's death in 1924, Joseph Stalin rapidly rises to power. By the 1930s, Stalin's "Great Purge" is under way. Millions are arrested, and many are executed or sent to prison camps, as Stalin tightens his grip on the nation. DEPRESSION At the end of the 1920s, the Great Depression plunges much of the world into economic hard times. In the West, there is growing support for the Soviet Union -- where socialism offers an alternative to the harsh realities of capitalism. Around the same time, Stalin begins the first of the Soviet Union's five-year plans for economic development. Many in the United States and elsewhere chose to ignore reports of the widespread calamities caused by Stalin's policies of collectivization.  In the United States, President Roosevelt promises a New Deal, a series of sweeping reforms. And among those policy changes, the United States recognizes the Soviet Union. American politics also shifts to the left during the Depression, especially as the trend toward fascism grows in Europe. WARTIME ALLIANCES Despite European attempts at appeasing Hitler, Nazi Germany continues its war preparations. Stalin, in an attempt to buy time for the Soviet Union, signs a non-aggression pact with Berlin on August 23, 1939.  German troops storm into Poland just over a week later, starting World War II. Soviet forces take over the Baltic states and invade Finland. Stalin's treaty serves to keep Moscow out of the greater war, while the Nazis conquer much of Western Europe. But Hitler's appetite for territory isn't sated. The Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, "Operation Barbarossa," takes the Soviet military by surprise.  After months of retreats and millions of casualties, the Red Army begins to beat back the German forces. The costly Soviet victory during the Battle of Stalingrad in 1943 ends the German advance and signals the beginning of the end for the Nazis. SUMMITS In 1943, the leaders of Britain, the Soviet Union and the United States gather in Tehran, Iran, where they agree to work toward the defeat of Nazi Germany. They also begin to map out the future of post-war Europe.  The so-called "Big Three" meet again in February 1945 in Yalta, a town on the Black Sea and a resort for Russia's former czars. While in Yalta, Joseph Stalin, now marshal of the Soviet Union, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt consider the fate of Poland, which is already occupied by the Soviets. Yalta ends with Britain and the United States securing Stalin's agreement that the Soviets will attack Japan once Germany is defeated. Victory over the Nazis, meanwhile, is fast becoming reality. Soviet and U.S. troops meet on the Elbe River in April 1945, effectively cutting Germany in two.  Roosevelt dies soon after the Yalta summit, just weeks before V-E Day. Vice President Harry S. Truman then assumes the presidency and represents the United States at the first post-war "Big Three" meeting -- which takes place in Potsdam, just outside Berlin. But there are already signs that the wartime alliance between the West and the Soviets is quickly unraveling. HIROSHIMA/NAGASAKI The Potsdam conference ends on August 2, 1945. Four days later, the United States drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. A second atomic device is dropped on the port city of Nagasaki three days after Hiroshima. Japan soon surrenders, ending World War II.  But the world has entered the Nuclear Age, a time of unprecedented danger. And that nuclear threat would overshadow all the future Cold War confrontations to come.
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I'm psyched up to start the build out. I want to get busy marketing this place!
Thanks Betsy.
I wonder if he meant waRg?
LOL! Sounds like something a FReeper would come up with.
I recall reading that ALL The Soviet POWs who were returned to the loving arm of uncle Joe were shot on the assumtion that
1 they didn't fight hard enough and so were traitors to the motherland
2 were contaminated with bourgeoisie attitudes. And so in order to protect the workers paradise they had to be shot.
Reminds me of an old Mifia saying, "It's not personal it just business."
Hammer's father Julius "had been one of Lenin's main supporters in the United States. He had helped organize the notorious left-wing faction of the Socialist Party, which became the Communist Party in 1919. When his first child was born in 1898, he named him Armand for the arm-and-hammer symbol of the proletarian revolution." Edward Jay Epstein, Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer, Carroll & Graf, 1996, pp 20-21.
Joseph Farah of World Net Daily suggests Al Gore Jr.'s original middle name was Armand.
At left above, Al Gore Sr., then Armand Hammer. At right, Al Gore Jr.
Al Gore was given his land in Tennessee and his Occidental Petroleum stock by Armand Hammer.
Hence the continuing Al Gore-MoveOn.com-CPUSA menage a trois.
"There is no famine or actual starvation nor is there likely to be."
--New York Times, Nov. 15, 1931, page 1
"Any report of a famine in Russia is today an exaggeration or malignant propaganda."
--New York Times, August 23, 1933
"Enemies and foreign critics can say what they please. Weaklings and despondents at home may groan under the burden, but the youth and strength of the Russian people is essentially at one with the Kremlin's program, believes it worthwhile and supports it, however hard be the sledding."
--New York Times, December 9, 1932, page 6
"You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs."
--New York Times, May 14, 1933, page 18
"There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition."
--New York Times, March 31, 1933, page 13
The above crap was extruded by New York Times Pulitzer-winning Moscow reporter Walter Duranty.
The paper remains more loyal to Communists than to this nation, hence we do not use it even to line the trash.
Just in, John Fifth-Column Kohnhead's Four Points:
Nice story of the Fighting Navy.
GQ for real 221 times in one month. Oof. Even in peacetime you spend months with no more than four hours sleep at one time. The guys skip meals to take a nap. Remember it well.
BTTT!!!!!!
Morning Phil Dragoo.
Too many of the Liberals continue to believe in the failed Communist system even today and want to bring the "Communist Paradise" to our country. IMHO, Socialism is just a stepping stone on the path to Communism.
Reminds me of "Arbeit Macht Frei", over the entrance to Auschwitz.
Great minds think alike...
The Soviets were the masters of Orwell's doublespeak, the moderem Democratic Party has the the Communist propaganda methods down pat.
Morning Aeronaut
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