Thursday, May 12, 2005
George amongst men:  [NOTE: Cigarette digitally removed.]
posted by Quiddity at 5/12/2005 03:05:00 PM
6 comments
Yeah, that's about the size of it. In right-wing dreamworld, Russia was already defeated when Berlin fell. Conquering eastern Europe would have been a cakewalk.
Back in reality, we find that the Russians were by no means exhausted, and indeed outnumbered and outgunned the Western Allies by orders of magnitude. (If I remember correctly, Antony Beevor documented that the Russians amassed nearly 1 million artillery pieces against Berlin alone.)
Why oh why is the present-day right in this country so sanguine about war? What dehumanizing effect does right-wing ideology produce that makes its adherents so eager to commit young men to battle?
C'mon. Russia has always been easy to knock over. Just look at the list: Napoleon did it, then Hitler did it...
At least that's what it says in my Regnery Press history book here.
Russia is never as strong as she looks. Russia is never as weak as she looks.
Russia is easy to get in to, but hard to get out of.
Nice pic. Of course Bush flunked history and hasn't a clue what he is talking about.
re the yalta comment, i didn't know about this, from TPM:
The president also makes common cause... with those who argued before the war and after that the US and the UK made their fundamental error in the war itself, by allying with the Soviets against Nazism rather than with Nazism against the Soviets.
why didn't the other blogs pick up on this and remind people bush family's history of support for nazis?
remember this question bush asked the guide the last time he toured auschwitz?
"Do people challenge the accuracy of what you present?"
now you tell me bush hasn't been pumped full of revisionistic history.
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