Today, a padded envelope arrived containing ‘five’ 50 pence pieces (or ‘coins’) commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the British D-Day Landings at Caen and Normandy.
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Today, a padded envelope arrived containing ‘five’ 50 pence pieces (or ‘coins’) commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the British D-Day Landings at Caen and Normandy.
The United States and UK tried to destroy the fledgling USSR during the Russian Civil (1917-1922), assisted by 12 other ‘Allied’ (or ‘Entente’) countries including
I have studied the War for Independence in Vietnam from 1945 – 1975, focusing upon Ho Chi Minh and General Giap as two exemplary leaders
This was when the US Government fought on the rightside of history – as an ally of the Soviet Union! We respect everyone who fought against fascism with us during that terrible war! It is a sobering thought that many of these brave young men never returned alive. They fought and died for our freedom not to live under fascism! How different things are today, with the US Government supporting Zionist Israel and Neo-Nazism in the Ukraine!
If the author had even ‘hinted’ at this, I suspect he would have been arrested for (imagined) anti-Semitism, but historical fact is historical fact and the average Israeli is taught in the classroom to be ‘proud’ of the terrorism his or her fore-fathers wrought upon the British Army (and British Authorities) in Palestine. In a very real sense, a certain (and often privileged) sector of middle-class European Jewry had first ‘migrated’ into a more or less welcoming (Arab) Palestine, only to eventually attempt an armed invasion and conquest very much in the model of European colonialism in the Americas! The Zionist Jews of Israel are not an ethnic minority fighting for its survival and self-determination but are part of the broader European project of colonialism, imperialism, genocide and theft of land and resources. This should not be surprising when it is understood that ‘Zionism’ is a form of White Supremacy developed and practised by affluent and secularising ‘White’ Jews (ironically originally from Germany)! After an extensive investigation, the usually bias United Nations declared in 1975 (following a unanimous vote) that ‘Zionism’ was a form of ‘White Supremacy’ and religiously based ‘racism’.
Author’s Note: By December 1939, the UK was already at war with Nazi Germany, but not with the US. Furthermore, Hitler had not yet successfully