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Diclotican

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46. coalition_unwilling
Fri Aug 10, 2012, 02:16 PM
Aug 2012

coalition_unwilling

True, the good Mark Twain was often a sharp man, who had the vid of an expert.. And sadly to say, most americans have not a clue about either history or geography of other parts of the world... When I was in the US, many years ago, a old, nice woman, ask me, with deadly seriously, if we had the same problems with the vikings, as they had with their Negro's (she really did say that)... I was somewhat flabbergasted by it, but I managed to say that "No, our vikings are for the most part nice this days - my father was a Viking when he was younger, but he sharped up somehow over the years".. The old nice woman got close to a heart attack about that Revelations Sometimes it is fun to be just 15 and had a little bad stroke into life

Both General Giap of Vietnam and Marshall Zhukov of USSR was men who had brains and also smart enough to use it.. But both of them was also ruthless, and used soldiers as cannon fodder.. Marshall Zhukov is maybe most infamous for that - but he was also very respected both by his soldiers, and by the german enemies who know when Zhukov got into a theater, all hell was out..

It is told, that Stalin, after V day in 1945, wanted to trow Zhukov, and many of his officers to the lions, as part of making sure that no one from the generals could challenge Stalin from his power base.. But he could not dear to touch Zhukov, because he was to popular by the russian public.. Even when he was kind of demoted to the far east, where he was to keep and eye om the Nationalistic China, and after 1949, also for Communist China he was one of the most popular generals, and Marshall's of the Great Patriotic War as the second world war is called in Russia... And to his death Genaji Zhukov was one of the most popular public persons in the whole of Soviet Union. And also respected by the west for the effort he had being playing, to make sure Nazi-Germany was not to win the war..

My foster father, who had been in the USSR a year from 1944-45, as part of a liaison duty between the russian forces who was in Norway from 1944 to early 1945, to trow out the germans who was occupying that part of Norway (Finmark and Nord-Troms) was for some reason or another making friends with Marshall Zhukov, and from 1945, after the war, to somewhat into the 1950s, they was pen-pals of sorts... Even then, in the end it kind of stooped up, as the "sensor-police" on both sides of the cold war, kind of ruined all possibility of a meanings full writings... Marshall Zhukov was no warm and cuddly friends of Stalin to be sure.. He could play the game, but Zhukov and Stalin was never close and warm friends... Stalin was afraid of the popularity of Zhukov, and was rather paranoid on his old ages.... And the only reason Zhukov, in the famous picture from May 9th, is riding on a white Horse taken from one of the german Generals was becouse 1 Stalin was afraid of beeing attaced on the horse, 2 he was afraid of beeing trow off the horse, 3 he was kind of afraid off the horses...

Diclotican

Diclotican

This message was self-deleted by its author [View all] friendly_iconoclast Aug 2012 OP
Yep! He tells it like it is/was and might be! Well said!!! n/t RKP5637 Aug 2012 #1
I wish my 67-year old father was as enlightened Animal Chin Aug 2012 #2
Don't worry Animal if what this man's dad said comes true you can believe it will change southernyankeebelle Aug 2012 #3
DEMOCRATIC Party, southernyankeebelle catbyte Aug 2012 #9
I get corrected often. I just forget. So I know you all know what I mean. I guess I'll just use southernyankeebelle Aug 2012 #13
Democrat is a noun. Republican is also a noun. JDPriestly Aug 2012 #19
Thank you. I want to tell you when I was a kid we had to break down sentences. I can't southernyankeebelle Aug 2012 #25
I never got diagramming sentences either. English classes in general were the bane of my Egalitarian Thug Aug 2012 #27
Diagramming that was it. I hated school so much. Wow I'm impressed with your accomplishments. southernyankeebelle Aug 2012 #28
That's a whole 'nother story, but I was in IT from '89 - 03. Today I work mostly with animals, Egalitarian Thug Aug 2012 #32
Wow that is an interesting job to work with horses. At least you don't get any talk back (LOL) southernyankeebelle Aug 2012 #35
It's so much more rewarding than the never ending fight to do a good job within the Egalitarian Thug Aug 2012 #47
Wow sounds like you really are enjoying your life. I quit work about 6 yrs ago. southernyankeebelle Aug 2012 #48
Sorry that you feel that way. maddiemom Aug 2012 #31
Opposite for me, but my GF just loved diagramming sentences. I think it's partly personality and Egalitarian Thug Aug 2012 #33
DemocrATIC is the adjective. Please don'temcourage this disrespect. maddiemom Aug 2012 #24
You know what I will use it the way I want. I am a DEM. Deal with it. It isn't being southernyankeebelle Aug 2012 #26
Wow, your attitude is pretty hostile maddiemom Aug 2012 #29
P.S. You were very pleasant to everyone else making the same observation.de the same observation. maddiemom Aug 2012 #30
Thank you maddiemom. I am not a troll and I did respond before I read this reply. But southernyankeebelle Aug 2012 #38
This message was self-deleted by its author southernyankeebelle Aug 2012 #37
You forgot the comma after "Above all else" ... Fantastic Anarchist Aug 2012 #43
I'm also 67... maddiemom Aug 2012 #23
Thanks for sharing that! MineralMan Aug 2012 #4
He's a wise man MrScorpio Aug 2012 #5
There's nothing new under the sun.......... TheDebbieDee Aug 2012 #6
I've got an 83 y.o. pop as well Semi_subversive Aug 2012 #7
Your Dad's last paragraph refers, I think, to 1937 when coalition_unwilling Aug 2012 #8
Romney, will make the 8 years of Bush trivial. Romney, will turn this RKP5637 Aug 2012 #12
Minor correction to both of you: that "SPENDING" on WWII reversed. n/t ieoeja Aug 2012 #15
Yes, I could have and should have been more explicit. Thought 'spending' was understood. But coalition_unwilling Aug 2012 #40
coalition_unwilling Diclotican Aug 2012 #17
"USSR had been more or less overrun by the summer of 1941" - well, someone forgot to coalition_unwilling Aug 2012 #39
coalition_unwilling Diclotican Aug 2012 #41
The American humorist Mark Twain once wrote that 'God created war coalition_unwilling Aug 2012 #42
coalition_unwilling Diclotican Aug 2012 #46
they won't raise ANY taxes. pay for anything? shirley you jest. pansypoo53219 Aug 2012 #10
I never jest. And don't call me Shirley. Brigid Aug 2012 #34
Your dad is my hero. Brigid Aug 2012 #11
The National Parks point strikes a chord with me Floyd_Gondolli Aug 2012 #14
The National Parks xxqqqzme Aug 2012 #16
friendly_iconoclast Diclotican Aug 2012 #18
ahhh... wise words indeed handmade34 Aug 2012 #20
A wise, wise man. WinstonSmith4740 Aug 2012 #21
Yes, I remember this. Brigid Aug 2012 #44
I think I'm in love. maddiemom Aug 2012 #22
Thanks! ananda Aug 2012 #36
Your dad is tapping into the same rhetoric I think I'm hearing lately...he's listening Sheepshank Aug 2012 #45
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