Category: Politics

In numerous memoirs of Soviet marshals and generals, this period of the war is buried in lies, while the successes of the Germans are explained by all sorts of impossible “objective” reasons.Towards autumn of 1941, the German army had occupied a dominant part of the European USSR and came within a few kilometers of Moscow…. “Measuring others with their own yardstick,” Rosenberg and, with his advice, Hitler, were convinced that all non-Russians thought themselves oppressed by the Russians and would gladly, given the opportunity, come out against the Russians.In practice, these plans were implemented through mass starving prisoners of war and the looting of the civilian population.

Birth control has always been very primitive from Tsarist Russia to the end of the Soviet Union (abortion was the primary method of birth control at the end of the Soviet Union with an average of four abortions per woman over the course of her life)…. Women don’t care much for tea-totalling men (such abstinence hints at an absence of love of life and pleasure), but alcoholics have even less appeal (inability to work or to create or maintain a suitable home, danger to herself and her children via alcholic violence, eventual sexual impotence).

ZNet |Iraq | On the Iraq Election: Even the free trade agreements, so-called, are highly protectionists, the extra-ordinary intellectual property rights go way beyond anything existed in the past those are purely protectionist…. If the currently rich countries had ever been faced with such rules, the US would now be exporting fish and fur.

It was quite amusing to watch all of the artificial fuss about the colour revolution in Ukraine last year. None of it really mattered.

Sitting in our Western societies with our cafés and police and cars, it is hard to imagine what it is like to be really oppressed. One paragraph from Janina Sulkowska-Gladun’s Memoirs really knocke It’s so true that a well-fed person cannot understand the starving one.

The other day I was wondering about the mechanisms of mass murder, particularly of soldiers. Why and how is it that men can be made to dig their own graves or why it is they would go along with their own destruction?