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WWII: D-Day 81st Anniversary [1944-2025] – Remembering Arthur Gibson and the HMS Beaumaris Castle (FY 992) – of the “Royal Navy Patrol Service” [RNPS] ! (5.6.2025)

05/06/2025 Adrian (釋大道)

A “moored” mine (or “Naval” mine) is a single mine anchored to the seabed by a length of metal chain or rope – operating at a depth decided by the length of mooring tether. These mines were deadly as they often hid below the waterline and the line of sight – waiting for the hull of a ship to strike it in passing. A “drifting” sea mine was a device (sometimes “magnetic” but also “non-magnetic” or “contact” detonated) that floated about on the surface of the sea according to the tide. These mines could travel hundreds of miles and bob and weave their way up estuaries and into harbours. From what I gather according to the stories I was told, it was these “drifting” mines my grandfather was responsible for destroying. Obviously, a “U-Boat” was a Nazi German “Unterseeboot” or “Under Water Boat” – whilst an E-Boat referred to a Nazi German fast-attack “Enemy Boat” – usually carrying torpedoes.

UK: D-Day 81st Anniversary {6.6.1944-6.6.2025] – Remembering Private Alfred Wyles! (5.6.2025)

05/06/2025 Adrian (釋大道)

The infantry would assault the area from the periphery – and the Glider Troops would protect the centre (as if they had just dropped from the sky). As combat can be fluid and all kinds of emergencies can occur – Glider Troops would also train to assault the area from the periphery – and Infantry would defend the area from the centre. The reality on the ground might involve any contingency being used with flexibility being the key. I am told that this might explain how my grandfather came to possess an Airborne badge. When we were first researching this subject, die to the presence of this badge, we first thought Alfred Wyles had landed at Caen in a wooden Glider (this was in fact “D Company” of the 2nd Battalion [Professional] Ox & Bucks – but were later informed that in all likelihood (there is till a niggling doubt) my grandfather landed on Sword Beach as part of the supporting-infantry. Whatever the case, his official War Record is vague on this point.

UK: Dozens Injured After Car Drove into Crowd at Liverpool Parade! (27.5.2025)

27/05/2025 Adrian (釋大道)

The UK far-right started its usual (imagined) victimhood – falsely stating that if the perpetrator was “non-White” his race and ethnicity would not have been mentioned by the media. Really? Millions of White people currently walking the streets of the UK who are far more “foreign” to British people than many others who possess a different skin-tone or hue. It is not pigmentation that unites humanity (the skin-hue of distinctive cultural groups varies in time through natural evolutionary processes – and science teaches us that there is NO fixed concept of “race”) – but rather the depth and strength of character which defining. The British people have shared hundreds of years of cultural entanglement with people of different skin-hue and distinctive culture – but virtually “none” with many of these “foreign” White people the far-right is currently eulogising. Just being “pink” is not a unifier of humanity and all such people are separated by linguistic and cultural practices that have led to world wars in the past!

WWII: 1939 Founding of the Royal Navy Patrol Service [RNPS]! (26.5.2025)

26/05/2025 Adrian (釋大道)

I think the Royal Navy and RNPS acted in parallel around the UK – as I remember two Royal Navy ships working at exactly the same time during WWII – both holding exactly the same name of “HMS Beaumaris Castle” (but with different registration numbers). The point was that the war with Nazi Germany caught the UK government by surprise and there was not enough time (nor was there the resources) for the government to build proper military-grade mine-sweepers. Fishing vessels were acquired and thousands of volunteers called for to immediately defend the UK coastline. Those men who volunteered were permitted to “choose” to serve in the RNPS – rather than being placed wherever the government most needed men. The above extract sheds light on how the RNPS was first formed in 1939.

Pit-grave No 8 in the camp for prisoners of war on "Peski" in Pskov. 1945. GARF

ALEXEY IRYUTIN (АЛЕКСЕЙ ИРЮТИН): Exposing Estonian War Crimes & Collaboration with Nazi Germany During WWII! (25.5.2025)

25/05/2025 Adrian (釋大道)

Estonian Punitive Police Battalions and other collaboratoring units, which became the basis for the formation of the 20th Estonian SS Volunteer Division, left a bloody trail during World War II on the territory of Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Poland and Estonia itself, taking an active part in the destruction of civilians.

Estonian SS men are classified as war criminals according to the verdict of the Nuremberg Military Tribunal: “In considering the question of the SS, the Tribunal includes all persons who have been officially accepted as members of the SS, including members of the General SS, Waffen-SS, SS Totenkopf formations, and members of any kind of Police Services who were members of the SS. The Tribunal does not include the so-called SS Cavalry Formations in this number.”

I Will Keep An Eye on the Ideological Direction of the Palestinian Communist Party!

Palestinian Communist Party: Joint Statement of Communist and Workers’ Parties – Stop the “Genocide” in Gaza! (24.5.2025)

24/05/2025 Adrian (釋大道)

The dominant (dialectically distorted) Trotskyite view is that the “capitalist” nature of modern Russia supersedes the “Neo-Nazi” nature of modern (Catholic) Ukraine. This is because Leon Trotsky supported fascism and the Catholic Church (in 1938 he openly called upon his followers to support Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito in any far-right attack upon the USSR) – with Trotskyite fighters opposing the Socialist (USSR-supported) side during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), etc. Personally, I think it is morally repugnant that Ukrainians be included on this list – but Russians excluded (exclude both or include both – not one over the other – although Russia does have precedence due to its anti-fascist war)). I think that in the future I will seriously reconsider whether I will share anything from the Communist Party of Palestine if this is its guiding ideology.

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