[max americana]

i thought they were talking about our govt..

[A CA Guy]

Was that supposed to be some form of Soviet exceptionalism? I think I like the American kind much better.

[DManA]

and worshipped evolution theory

Pat Robertson challenges creationism

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/11/29/pat-robertson-challenges-creationism/

[T. P. Pole]

waters 10 Celsius (14 Fahrenheit) below zero.

Huh?

[colorado tanker]

The Eastern Front witnessed great brutality on both sides. The Nazis set the tone when they began to shoot Soviet prisoners of war and their Einsatzgruppen rolled across the Eastern Soviet Union shooting civilians, mostly Jews. As the Soviets pushed them back, they destroyed cities and killed many more civilians.

Yes, the Soviet soldiers responded with brutality and rape, but the Nazis could expect no quarter.

[William Tell]

From the article: "In the dark and frozen night of January 30, 1945, the hospital ship is sighted by a Soviet submarine, which shoots three torpedoes, condemning thousands of women and children to death in waters 10 Celsius (14 Fahrenheit) below zero. "

Sounds like an overt act of war to me. I think Germany should have immediately declared war against the Soviet Union.

[Alex Murphy]

Worse than the shipwreck of Titanic is Wilhelm Gustloff’s sinking. And much worser than Wilhelm Gustloff’s sinking is the shipwreck of whole societies into the abysses of destruction of the chameleonic socialist ideology.

Ping for later.

[Fiji Hill]

And much worser than Wilhelm Gustloff’s sinking is the shipwreck of whole societies...

Worser? Then it really must be bad!

[donmeaker]

The Nazis and Commies worshipped a G-d, just a different one.

Nazism was a combination of mercantilism with darwinism.
Fascism as practiced by Mussolini was mercantilism with a pretense of efficiency, though he really never did get the Italian trains to run on time.

Soviet Communism was based on Marxism which denies darwinism. The idea that some people are better than others at different jobs is anathema to marxists. If some were better, then they should be paid better, and that would be exploitation!

[Fiji Hill]

I have a number of issues with this article. For one thing, Wilhelm Gustloff was not a hospital ship. It had served as such early in the war but was later converted to a military transport ship. It was also fitted with AAA batteries, making it technically a warship.

Also, if the water temperature had been 14 degrees below zero, the ship wouldn't have sunk because the sea would have been frozen.

The ship might not have been sunk had the skipper not turned on his navigation lights, a foolish thing to do in a war zone.

[Gamecock]

I thought this was going to be about 0bamacare.

[mad_as_he$$]

Title is not what your subject is. “World’s Biggest Shipwreck” is the Costa Concordia at 114,000 tons.

If you are trying to say Most Deadly, or Most Costly in human life then say that.

[Notary Sojac]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

If I don't believe that the universe was created October 23-28, 4004 BC, then I'm just like Hitler and Stalin.

Been there, heard that, got the t-shirt, don't wear it any more, man.

[cunning_fish]

>>>The communist inhumanity has been very well known. This is why during the anti-Communist military government in Brazil, the exiled leftist artists and politicians didn’t choose to live in Cuba, Soviet Union, North Korea or other socialist “paradise.” They opted for capitalist countries! For instance, former Brazilian Marxist president Fernando Henrique Cardoso chose exile in France. Gilberto Gil, in England. Why to choose exile in a socialist slum when they could opt for capitalist luxury?<<<

Cry me a river. Sinking of Gustloff was a justified act of war.
Critics has to mention it was a Criegsmarine military ship, painted navy grey, with armament, travelling blacked out as part of a convoy with other nazy warships. To make things worse, it was a floating base for U-boat crews, housing some thousand hazy navy officers.
Blaming Soviet navy is beyond stupid. Blame idiots who made so many civilians a target.