Interesting to read the attacks on Xu Yun’s age (purported to have been 120 years of age at his death) emanating from pro-Western Taiwan Chinese
Tag: Cold War
China: US Marine Learns Straight Sword (1945)
apanese fighting systems that had been used during WWII against the Western allies, now became the preferred CIA means of spreading Japanese influence throughout Europe and America, and cementing a re-born Japan as an essential ‘frontline’ ally against a potentially threatening Communist China.
1962: Cuban Missile Crisis – Myth & Reality
‘I believe that we created, built and manufactured the Castro movement out of whole cloth and without realising it.’ President John F Kennedy to Jean
Illegal CIA Drug Experiments
This documentary explores the alleged use of LSD (and other experimental compounds) upon the Socialist French town of Pont-Saint-Esprit in 1951, by the CIA, and documents the deaths this incident caused.
Ukraine: Neo-Nazi Insurgency (1945-1947)
‘True, for a short time after the invasion of 1941, the Germans behaved like “liberators” of of the Ukraine, and were far less brutal there
USSR: Law Against Commercialising Martial Arts (Article 219-1)
Those found ‘exploiting’ others for money (by offering greed-orientated martial arts training), were banned from practising and teaching, fined and/or imprisoned.
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 