Posted on 09/15/2010 5:52:10 PM PDT by Ravnagora
It won't analyze out to that conclusion for me.
If you are British, no offense meant.
Indeed no. What we were told in the war was all so simple. Most of my generation who were children at the time will go to their final resting places believing in the purity of their own countrymen, the white knights in shining armour. I do not begrudge them it at all. For those of us that read a great deal, it is now a matter of quietly realizing that which could not be told. Too bad for morale that, the whole story.
This analysis on Orwell, which Carl Savich has written. Incredible, but it is now midnight and I will print up this tomorrow. I thought I had read pretty much on Orwell's thoughts and this is new to me. Needs some time to digest.
On another note I see our friend has served three years in dealing with the aforesaid Communists. I myself had a few narrowish scrapes, but nothing fancy from the Luftwaffe. A returning soldier said to us "You thought you ad' a bit of bombin' - you should ave' seen 'Amburg" (Hamburg Germany).
Time for shut eye!
Sleep well, Peter, thanks for the input.
I was disappointed and shocked that so many FReepers fell for the Soviet...I mean Russian..line that it was all an unfortunate accident. Look, Vladimir Putin is a career KGB agent. He had already murdered dissidents using sophisticated weapons like Plutonium-laced tea. You really think the world’s premier intellgence organization couldn’t set up an “accident” to eliminate a bunch of inconvenient Polacks? Killing people in simulated “accidents” is an ancient, time-honored way of “offing” political enemies for the KGB. Putin and his whole gang should have been liquidated during the brief period when Yeltsin was in control. We are all suffering, and will suffer for decades, from that mistake.
I do disagree that the FSB or the KGB is/was "the world’s premier intelligence organization".
Be that as it may, I will agree that a Communist, of any type, is the mortal enemy of every human being on the planet, just as a starting point, and I agree with your recommended disposition of all of 'em.
Still, it does not logic out for me.
Then who do you think is the world’s premier intelligence organization? The Mossad might be, qualitatively, but the KGB outnumbers them by orders of magnitude. Besides, the KGB is utterly ruthless and unscrupulous. Putin’s Plutonium murders were blatant and obvious, because he knew no one in the West had the balls to respond effectively.
Maybe...but history proves this assumption wrong.
Just a few years earlier the US had already “abandoned” Christians in Asia Minor to a most horrible genocide at the hands of Turks.
Abandoning General Mihailovitch was anticipated given the US role in other events requiring actions based on a sense of doing what is morally right. For the most part - not always- the US has chosen economic gain over doing the right thing morally.
A bunch of guys with sledge hammers killing ants.
Putin IS Russian intelligence, and he does send messages by being obvious, he is excellent at it. Considering that intelligence is supposedly not being obvious, the Soviet Russians were not very good at it.
If you judge by results, Putin is very good at what he does, and is not reckless. He has been playing chess for a decade now, he does not play whack-a-mole internationally, just at home.
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