Author’s Note: The defeat of the Spanish Armada by the English in 1588 was not the immediate disaster many British historians mistakenly assume. Spain was
Tag: Ambient Conflicts
The St Bartholomew Day’s Massacre (1572)
‘During the night of August 23/24, 1572 on the eve of St Bartholomew’s Day, Catholics engaged in a mass slaughter of thousands of Huguenots in Paris – men and women, old men and infants. Catherine de Medicis is to have said that it was kind to be cruel to the Huguenots and cruel to be kind. The Spanish ambassador reported elatedly to Philip II: “As I write, they are killing them all, they are stripping them naked, dragging them through the streets, plundering the houses, and sparing not even children. Blessed be God who has converted the French princes to His cause! May He inspire their hearts to continue as they have begun.” And Pope Gregory XIII exclaimed that the massacre pleased him more than fifty victories at Lepanto. That night of carnage staggered the imagination of contemporaries and descendants.’
Directive 75: How Richard Pipes Planned to Bring Down USSR (1983)
The similarities with Trotsky’s call for his followers to align themselves with the forces of International Fascism in any attack upon the USSR in 1938 are palpable, with the thinking of Directive 75 operating in Mainland China in 1989 with the fabrication of the Tiananmen Square Incident.
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 