Exploring the Interface between Matter and Perception, Chinese Buddhism, Daoism, Hakka Ethnography, and All Aspects of Radical Politics, History, Psychology and Philosophy – 全世界无产者联合起来!
My maternal grandfather – Arthur Gibson – for instance, served aboard the minesweeper HMS Beaumaris Castle (of the Royal Navy Patrol Group), keeping the sea-lanes of the North Atlantic clear of Nazi German U-boats and sea-mines, so that the Atlantic Conveys could take much needed aid to the USSR.
These photographs should remind those who get ‘blurry eyed’ at the devastation wrought on Hitler’s Germany by the ‘liberating’ Red Army – as if the Nazis were somehow the ‘victims’ of WWII (despite the Jewish Holocaust that cost around 6 million lives)!
