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Alexander Werth’s 1947 book, ‘The Year of Stalingrad’, details the journey of Merchant Navy Ship “Empire Baffin” during WWII. The ship left Middlesborough, UK, for Reykjavik on May 1, 1942, arriving ten days later, and then sailed to Murmansk, USSR, on May 20th. Despite Nazi Germany’s control of the sea, air, and land, and losing seven ships, the Convoy PQ-16 of 36 international ships managed to reach port under the protection of naval fleets.
Trotsky, however, was a notorious ‘racist’. Racism – in both name and function – pre-existed Trotsky by thousands of years, and it is hilarious to see Neo-Nazi ‘gays’ attempting to sexually impress one another with their ‘macho’ misstatements! Communism has nothing to do with Judaism – or any theistic religion – as Marx (via Feuerbach) fully exposed and dismissed the superstition that underlies ALL theistic religion. In 1938 – when he founded is laughable ‘Fourth International’ – Trotsky was courted by the West, the far-right, the American Zionists and the Catholic Church! Trotsky, due to his racist attitudes, condemned the Chinese Revolution, cooperated with the Imperial Japanese and called upon his followers to unite with the forces of International Fascism and assist in any upcoming attack upon the USSR! Trotsky also called upon Soviet citizens to carry-out terrorist attacks upon the infrastructure of the Soviet Union. Although a well-aimed pickaxe put an end to Trotsky in 1940 – the far-right might want to re-think their stupidity.
China holds indisputable sovereignty over the South China Sea islands and their nearby waters, and the PLA Southern Theater Command maintains a high state of readiness at all times to resolutely defend the country’s sovereignty, security and peace and stability in the South China Sea region.
In July, the destroyer USS Benfold sailed near the Nansha Islands in the South China Sea only a few days after it was driven away by the PLA from Chinese territorial waters off the Xisha Islands.
Consecutive provocations by the U.S. expose not only its navigational hegemony, but also its anxiety in the face of the growing capabilities of the PLA, experts said.
The ship named the ‘Lisbon Maru’ was carrying around 2,000 British POWs (British military personnel captured during the fall of Hong Kong being transported to Japan) when the ship was hit by a torpedo fired by the USS Grouper (part of the 81st US Pacific Fleet Submarine Force) on October 2nd, 1942! The ‘Lisbon Maru’ sank just off the Zhoushan (Zhejiang) area of the East China coast! It is reported that although 843 British POWs died due to drowning (and the machine-gunning of men in the water by other elements of the Imperial Japanese Navy active in the area) – another 384 British POWs were saved by the actions of local Chinese fishermen!
Those who survived this process describe it as comprising of continuous psychological and physical torture that lasted for around one-month and which was administered by uniformed US Servicemen! This sounds very similar to the contemporary US torture carried-out in Iraq (and other places)! Those now former ‘Kami-Kaze’ Pilots who survived this ‘Re-Education’ process were ‘discharged’ back into Japanese society whilst the US Authorities (with the collusion of the ‘new’ Japanese Authorities) ‘watched’ these men everyday – ensuring that their employment, health and housing opportunities remained very basic and at an impoverished level of existence. These former ‘Kami-Kaze’ Pilots received no pension, no back-pay and were not allowed to attend any Remembrance Ceremonies or have any Monuments constructed to ‘Remember’ the sacrifice of the ‘Kami-Kaze’ Pilots – despite the US Military Authorities ‘filming’ a number of these attacks (so ‘shocked’ were the Americans to encounter this tactic)!
Authors Note: It is interesting to observe that US culture views the airmen that took-part in the 1942 Doolittle Rad on Japan as ‘heroes.’ Much
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