Posted on 10/05/2002 9:30:41 PM PDT by gd124
Hm...did not the German attack on the Soviet union preempt a Soviet union attack on Germany by a few months at most??
If Hitler stopped in 1938....then Europe falls to the Soviets in 1942....history what-if.
The history of the previous century is to controversial to be told until Marxist organizations like the UN collapses (collapses like the Soviet union did.)
"Care must be taken not to underestimate the force of an idea."
I have always despised those office photos with pictures of cliffs, ocean waves, icebergs, etc--and those similar "Slogan Quotes for Motivation. They are akin to these catch-all phrases--even from the likes of Mein Kampf. I think they are part of the breed of claptrap that always appeared cultist and insipid.
This just proves it. Although there was a good "spoof" of this crappy "Motivational Art" going around awhile back.
My favorite was a young man observing an older gentleman and a pretty woman having a drink together. The sign said "O-P-P-O-T-U-N-I-T-Y: Yes, that's you're Boss--and No--that's not his wife."
"Of the highest importance is the training of will power and determination, as well as the cultivation of joy in taking responsibility".
Remember that man is imperfect. Even if a totally evil man tries to write a 1000 page book filled with nothing but evil, his imperfection will catch up with him causing him to occasionally slip up and write something good.
Well, the sonofab!tch was right about that one.
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Not as I understand it. According to the information I read, Germany was desperately in need of petroleum. There were some oil fields NE of the German border that Hitler needed. Hitler was prone to a grandiosity propelled by his own outstanding capability to manipulate language. It led him into a disaster. Additionally, the SS got Hitler into trouble. The Russian people had had enough of Stalin and were prepared to welcome the Germans as liberators. When the SS began to treat Russians as untermensch, the Russians began to fight like hell against the Germans. If this had not happened, taking the Soviet Union might have been a snap. Captured films show German troops in site of Moscop just a few miles away when they ran out of materiale. Had they been able to advance 15 more miles, the Soviets would have been through.
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Rand, which wasn't her real name, was highly Germanic in the sense that her characters and her vision of life were like something out of a Wagnerian opera. She was a Russian Jew. Her long time lover and youthful Germanic God was Nate Bradenbaum or something similar whose name was changed to fit in character.
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The highly educated are always the most gullible and attracted to abstract group-think. That is why out universities are filled with Marxists and paramarxists.
Sort of like when people quote post-syphillis Nietzsche, Postmodernist Literary Theory, or the insane political rants of the lefties' leader Abbie "Bipolar" Hoffman.
If it sounds like it doesn't make sense, it most likely doesn't.
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