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PaulK Member Posts: 17828 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3
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Hitler always planned to attack the Soviet Union. Stalin couldn’t have stayed out of it. The US propped up the Soviet Union (and others) through the Lend-Lease program - and that started before Pearl Harbour and US entry to the war.
Wikipedia discusses this and these quotes seem relevant:
I would like to express my candid opinion about Stalin's views on whether the Red Army and the Soviet Union could have coped with Nazi Germany and survived the war without aid from the United States and Britain. First, I would like to tell about some remarks Stalin made and repeated several times when we were "discussing freely" among ourselves. He stated bluntly that if the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war. — Nikita Khrushchev
Joseph Stalin, during the Tehran Conference during 1943, acknowledged publicly the importance of American efforts during a dinner at the conference: "Without American machines the United Nations could never have won the war Today [1963] some say the Allies didn't really help us ... But listen, one cannot deny that the Americans shipped over to us material without which we could not have equipped our armies held in reserve or been able to continue the war — Marshal Zhukov I think that continued British resistance was also important. Without opposition from British and Commonwealth forces - and without any reason to invade Britain - more German forces would have been available for the Eastern Front. The Soviet Union played their part in the war, but I think that they were more saved than saviours.
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LamarkNewAge Member Posts: 2424 Joined: Member Rating: 1.2 |
Stalin was bringing over American engineers, by the boat load, as far back as the 1920s.
Stalin would let Americans come over to talk to him. Stalin brought over workers from the United States. (He strongly envouraged African Americans to vpne over) People are missing the larger context. And remember, the Fascists took Finland (with the help of the soverign FINNS), Ukraine, Belarus, and Poland begore the battle of Stalingrad. Turkey agreed to join Germany if Stalingrad was taken. Japan agreed to attack Russia from the east, if Stalingrad was taken. Spain was fascist. France was fascist. Would the west have won the war without Russia? You are using Stalin's plans for Russian economic growth as evidence that the West helped him. (Oliver Stone had a multi-part Showtime documentary, which showed how much the United States helped Hitler)
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8564 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 4.7
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You use this faulty reasoning as justification for Tzar Vladimir the Condemned to invade a peaceful neighbor? This is your justification for the innocent blood the Russian is spilling in Ukraine? You are a sick individual. Psychopath.
Eschew obfuscation. Habituate elucidation.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17828 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3
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I rather doubt that the Finns would have turned to fascist aid without the threat from the Soviet Union, which I remind you was a murderous oppressive tyranny. Finland itself wasn’t fascist.
quote: Possibly. It would have been harder.
quote: A complete and utter and knowing falsehood. I am using the fact that the Soviet Union relied on war aid from the US to survive. As admitted by Krushchev, Zhukov and apparently Stalin himself. Aid that started before the attack on Pearl Harbour brought the US formally into the war. It had nothing to do with Stalin’s plans - it was instituted by the US. But of course you don’t like that truth.
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Tangle Member Posts: 9515 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 4.8
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So LMA supports the invasion of Ukraine and the murder of its civilian population.
Is there any reason we're still talking to him?Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien. I am Mancunian. I am Brum. I am London. Olen Suomi Soy Barcelona. I am Ukraine. "Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.
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Minnemooseus Member Posts: 3945 From: Duluth, Minnesota, U.S. (West end of Lake Superior) Joined: Member Rating: 10.0 |
I rather doubt that the Finns would have turned to fascist aid without the threat from the Soviet Union, which I remind you was a murderous oppressive tyranny. Finland itself wasn’t fascist. quote: Source: The opening sentence at Finland in World War II - Wikipedia I think it was much more that Finland and Germany had a common enemy, rather that Finland being a friend of Germany. From later in the above citation:
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8564 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 4.7
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Is there any reason we're still talking to him? Well, I don't know about talking to him. It's more like correcting the poison he spews into the air. Can't let the Russkie have the last word. Also, I'm hoping that by repeating - Tzar Vladimir The Condemned - often enough the algorithms will log the meme as "trending" and eventually take over the world leading to the overthrow of Tzar Vladimir The Condemned. I'm thinking big. This whole Ukraine bravado thing is catching on. Edited by AZPaul3, : No reason given.Eschew obfuscation. Habituate elucidation.
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Tangle Member Posts: 9515 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 4.8 |
You can tell things aren't going well for Poo Tin - he's arrested Colonel-General Sergei Beseda the head of the FSB Intelligence service and his deputy.
Putin Places Spies Under House Arrest - CEPAJe suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien. I am Mancunian. I am Brum. I am London. Olen Suomi Soy Barcelona. I am Ukraine. "Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed. |
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Theodoric Member Posts: 9201 From: Northwest, WI, USA Joined: Member Rating: 3.2
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Tzar Vladimir The Condemned it is.
Why did you go with the Tzar spelling?What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. -Christopher Hitchens Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts "God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness. If your viewpoint has merits and facts to back it up why would you have to lie?
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Theodoric Member Posts: 9201 From: Northwest, WI, USA Joined: Member Rating: 3.2
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I will put this on all my posts about the war.
#TzarVladimirtheCondemned Recruiting others to start it too.What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. -Christopher Hitchens Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts "God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness. If your viewpoint has merits and facts to back it up why would you have to lie?
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5952 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2 |
Why did you go with the Tzar spelling? Of course, the only proper spelling is "Царь". There are four different ways to transliterate the letter "Ц". "Tzar" is one of four possible transliterations from Cyrillics, which Wikipedia.en gives as: "Tsar (/zɑːr, sɑːr/ or /tsɑːr/), also spelled czar, tzar, or csar". Similarly, consider the Russian composer, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский). His last name starts with the letter, "Ч", whose sound is like the English "ch" as in "check" and the Spanish letter, "ch" as in "chalupa" (yes, Spanish dictionaries treat it as a single letter). And Italian also has the sound which is a "soft c" followed by and "e" or "i" (eg, "ciao!"). Other languages might not have that sound and so need to find some other way to write it. Like the "Ц", the "Ч (our "ch" sound) is an affricate, the combination of two different consonant sounds (slightly basdardized): eg, "Ц" = /ts/, "Ч" = /tŠ/ (Š is like our "sh" sound). Hence languages like French and German have to write it as a combination of two letters, namely "t" combined with their way of writing our "sh" sound: eg, French "ch" -> "tch", German "sch" -> "tsch". Therefore "Чайко́вский" gets transliterated as:
Added to the problems of transliteration we have our off-the-wall English "phonetic spellings" which only serve to confuse language students (especially due to English vowels being radically different from everybody elses'). Therefore, I always prefer to refer back to the original for pronunciation. Just for fun, consider the English "j" (eg, "jungle"). In English it's also an affricate (/dž/, a voiced "ch"--/tš/), but in French it's a pure sound (/&zcaron/). So the German word for "jungle" is written "Dschungel"; the French just discard the "d" sound and change it to a pure /ž/, hence "jungle".
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8564 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 4.7
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Why did you go with the Tzar spelling? Of the proper English spellings this, to me, always seemed the oddest.
Tzar Vladimir The Condemned it is. Now the band wagon is rolling!Eschew obfuscation. Habituate elucidation.
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Theodoric Member Posts: 9201 From: Northwest, WI, USA Joined: Member Rating: 3.2
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3 facebook post and 4 tweets so far with
#TzarVladimirtheCondemned quote: What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. -Christopher Hitchens Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts "God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness. If your viewpoint has merits and facts to back it up why would you have to lie?
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Theodoric Member Posts: 9201 From: Northwest, WI, USA Joined: Member Rating: 3.2 |
Though this is commonly misattributed to Winston Churchill, I believe this quote hits close to home. Change Americans to the All Nations.
quote: That being said I have no idea what we should do. Stop #TzarVladimirtheCondemnedWhat can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. -Christopher Hitchens Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts "God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness. If your viewpoint has merits and facts to back it up why would you have to lie?
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Tanypteryx Member Posts: 4451 From: Oregon, USA Joined: Member Rating: 5.0 |
Somewhere this last week I saw a comment or headline, or something that mentioned #TzarVladimirtheCondemned having syphilis or doctors suspecting he has it by analyzing recent videos. I can't find it now.
Has anyone else seen this about #TzarVladimirtheCondemned or is it maybe just disinformation?What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq
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