Dear Gillian What I find interesting – and it’s a point I had never considered before – is that Mussolini was not that initially interested
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Dear Gillian What I find interesting – and it’s a point I had never considered before – is that Mussolini was not that initially interested
My Complaint: During WWII the Soviet Union – led by the great Joseph Stalin – were Allies of the UK during the darkest days of
It strikes me that the type of US anti-intellectualism that has allowed the history of the USSR to be distorted in the way it has, is exactly the same inverted mind-set that voted the fascist Donald Trump into power, and concocted all kinds of racist, sexist and ablest policies that culminated in the fake ‘fixed’ election story – and the Trump inspired ‘White Supremacy’ march upon the Congress building situated in Washington DC! This type of utter stupidity is distinctly American – but it is not new. In the past decades its dictates were accepted without question – but we live in a very different world today. US anti-intellectualism is now under the microscope and the entire world now knows what it looks like!
Since 1945, the United States (and her allies) have deliberately pursued a ‘Cold War’ policy of deliberately conflating the fascist and the far-right cause with
Dear Adrian (from Gillian) Undoubtedly there were Fascist sympathisers in the Vatican but a policy of 100% support for the Nazi is simply unsustainable through
The ‘Japanese Schindler’ and one Australian family’s tug-of-war with the national archives Translator’s Note: The history of WWII is complicated and complex. Its breadth and