Brixham Heritage Museum The staff and volunteers maintain a very good educational facility in the heart of South Devon, and we were very appreciative of
Tag: WWII
Alfred Gregory Wyles (1916-1976) – (WWII) War Record 1940-1946 (Military No: 5117194) 1st Buckinghamshire Battalion (LightBobs) – Oxford & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (Territorial Army)
Military records are precise and concise and convey very little about the reality of war. As a family we do not subscribe to the notion of imperialist war, but we are proud that our grandfather volunteered to join the British Army to fight fascism in the 1940’s.
The Polish Neo-Nazi ‘Myth’ of the ‘Battle of Warsaw’ (1920)
The Eastern half of what is now Poland used to belong to Czarist Russia until November 1918, when Lenin consequently freed this area by abolishing
Mas Oyama – Deconstructing Choi Yeong-Eui (최영의) [1923-1994] (7.8.2018)
(Research and Translation by Adrian Chan-Wyles PhD) Choi Yeong-Eui was very much the product of Japanese imperialism and colonial domination of Korea prior to WWII.
Speaking-Up for the Sutton Travellers (3.8.2018)
I have always been vaguely aware of Gypsies, Roma, Travellers and Didikais (people of Irish-Roma mixed ethnicity), as my family has been friends with members
Manufactured Anti-Communism in Post-WWII Europe
‘We still believe in the truth of the resolution, passed by the Combat Congress at Algiers last March – that “Anti-Communism is the beginning of dictatorship”. While disagreeing with the Communists on many points, we firmly reject political anti-Communism, with all its unavowed aims… And while we agree with the Communists on their collectivism, their social programme, their ideal of economic justice, and their disgust with a moneyed society, we thoroughly disagree with their “political realism,”.
