HISTORY AND THE CURRENT CONTEXT
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* "Buried for 50 years: Britain’s shameful role in the Biafran war; A million children starved to death. I’m haunted by the images I saw there – and by the complicity of the Wilson government" (2020-01-21, by Frederick Forsyth, via theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/21/buried-50-years-britain-shamesful-role-biafran-war-frederick-forsyth) [archive.is/e1orT]
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* "Life and Legacy of Errol W. Barrow, Barbados' Freedom Fighter; Born on Jan. 21, 1920, the Socialist lawyer Barrow will remain acclaimed in Barbados for leading his country to independence from Britain in 1966" (2020-01-21, telesurenglish.net/news/Life-and-Legacy-of-ErrolW.-Barrow-Barbados-Freedom-Fighter-20200120-0012.html) [archive.is/2z66N]
- image caption: Prime Minister Errol Barrow and Governor Stow after lowering the Union Jack and raising the Barbados flag at a ceremony in Bridgetown.
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* "MLK’s Radical Final Years: Civil Rights Leader Was Isolated After Taking On Capitalism & Vietnam War" (2018-01-25, democracynow.org/2018/1/25/mlks_radical_final_years_civil_rights) [archive.is/BglGl]
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* "Ronald Reagan’s 'October Surprise' Plot Was Real After All" (2020-01-21, jacobinmag.com/2020/01/ronald-reagan-october-surprise-carter-iran-hostage-crisis-conspiracy) [archive.is/jTDTk], synopsis: A batch of quietly released documents confirms what many have long suspected: Ronald Reagan’s 1980 presidential campaign worked behind the scenes to delay the release of US hostages in Iran, for the benefit of Reagan’s election campaign. It raises the question: When was the last time a Republican won a presidential election without the help of dirty tricks?
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* " ‘People want to know the truth’: Red Army veteran speaks out on liberation of Auschwitz & distortions of history" (2020-01-27, rt.com/news/478990-soviet-veteran-auschwitz-liberation/) [archive.is/xkYjd]
- image caption: Auschwitz prisoners after the Soviet liberation of the Nazi death camp in 1945
* "Last days of hell: 75 years on, death camp survivors recall the Red Army liberation of Auschwitz" (2020-01-27, rt.com/news/479014-auschwitz-prisoners-soviet-liberation/) [archive.is/xtgZV]
- image caption: Soviet soldiers leading liberated prisoners at Auschwitz
* " ‘Thank you’: Putin gets emotional at unveiling of Siege of Leningrad monument in Israel" (2020-01-23, rt.com/news/478998-putin-leningrad-memorial-israel/) [archive.is/iVcUx]
* "Polish PM ‘killed his own humanity’ with propagandist op-ed accusing Moscow of ‘Holocaust revisionism’ – Zakharova" (2020-01-22, rt.com/news/478844-polish-nazis-holocaust-revisionism/) [archive.is/Nuwap]
* "The Battle for Auschwitz" (2020-01-20, by Israel Shamir, unz.com/ishamir/the-battle-for-auschwitz/) [archive.is/MujIw] [begin excerpt]: On Friday, January 17, 2020, three thousand salvos shook the earth of the Russian capital city; the sky over Moscow had been emblazoned by glorious fireworks. This was the repeat of the memorable salute given seventy-five years ago, on January 17, 1945 by 24 salvos of 324 heavy cannons at liberation of Warsaw by the Red Army. Ruined Warsaw had been saved from total loss.
This could be an excellent occasion for display of friendliness between the two Slavic nations. The Poles could remember 200,000 Russian soldiers and officers killed in action at Warsaw, and say: they died so we may live. They could thank Russia for the bountiful lands and great cities that were torn out of defeated Germany and presented to Poland: Danzig became Gdansk, Stettin became Szczecin, Breslau became Wrocław, and Posen became Poznań. They could thank Russia even for passing to the Ukraine the Ukrainian-populated lands that were under Polish rule between the wars, the rule that ended in a big massacre of the resident Poles by Ukrainian nationalists.
Gratitude is not a strong feature of the Polish national character: the Polish government ignored the event. Instead, the Poles destroyed the memorials and tombs of Russian soldiers. [...]
The conflict is coming now to the fore, with the 75th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation (by the Red Army, by the way: President Obama’s uncle didn’t fight in Poland, despite this silly claim of the previous American president). It will be celebrated in two places: in Jerusalem and in Auschwitz. In Jerusalem, all important dignitaries will gather: the French President, the US Vice-President, the German Chancellor, the Russian President Putin. The Polish president Andrzej Duda was invited, too – but not as a speaker, just an also-present guest. He preferred to skip the occasion altogether and to visit the much more modest Auschwitz celebration at the site of the camp.
President Putin is aware of the Polish controversy, and he decided to show the Poles that their relentless hostility to Russia just does not pay. A few weeks ago on December 24, at the meeting of the Russian Ministry of Defence, Putin presented certain documents of the World War Two period, attesting to the rabidly anti-Jewish attitude of the pre-war Polish leadership. For instance, Jozef Lipsky, the Polish ambassador to Nazi Germany until 1939, told the Germans that the Poles would erect a monument to the Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler in Warsaw if he were to rid Poland of its Jews. “Such an anti-Semitic pig!” – exclaimed Putin indignantly.
The Poles made a miserable attempt to reinterpret the damning words, saying that the Polish ambassador had meant to save Jews by sending them to safe Africa, for instance, to Madagascar, to the harmless lemurs, in cooperation with Zionists, and so he was a Zionist pig, rather. It did not play well.
But Putin had more papers and more proof in his vaults. He produced a report dated late 1944-early 1945, when pro-London Polish militants of AK had made an attempt to take over Warsaw from the Germans before the Red Army’s arrival. The report said that the AK fighters systematically killed all the Jews who survived the German suppression of Warsaw Ghetto uprising (1943). It could explain why the Russian army did not think it is their sacred duty to help the AK militants.
Russians were always rather good and tolerant to Jews. There were no pogroms in Russia – only in Poland, the Ukraine and Moldova, the independent states once parts of the Russian Empire. The Russians saved millions of Jews, including millions of Polish Jews who were allowed to move to Russia. No other country accepted so many Jewish refugees as Russia did, by a long chalk. [...]
While Poles like to begin the history with Molotov-Ribbentrop treaty, subsequently presenting the USSR as an ally of Nazi Germany assaulting innocent and pure Poland; in the new Russian narrative (and in reality), the treaty between Poland and Nazi Germany preceded the Molotov pact by many years. Poland intended to attack Russia as a junior partner of Hitler. That is why the western border of Poland (with Germany) was totally unfortified and undefended, as opposed to the heavily fortified Eastern border with the USSR. But for this strategic miscalculation of Polish between-the-wars leadership, the Germans won’t be able to defeat Polish army within two weeks.
The Russians provided documents showing that half a million Poles served in Hitler’s Wehrmacht. These prove that the Polish leadership was fond of German Nazis, not least because of their anti-Jewish attitudes. Hitler personally attended the memorial service of Polish First Marshall Jozef Pilsudski in Berlin, in 1935.
[...]A special resolution of the Polish Sejm – the lower house of the Polish parliament – condemned both “provocative” and “false” statements by Russian President Vladimir Putin, about the role of Poland in the beginning of World War II. “Two totalitarian regimes – Nazi Germany and the communist USSR – unleashed this war”, the resolution emphasizes, which was adopted without a voting procedure on Thursday, January 9, while Poland is innocent.
This mantra worked all right for a long time; while it was necessary to accuse Russia and to delegitimise the Soviets. [end excerpt]
* "Der Spiegel Apologises After Claiming American, Not Soviet Troops Liberated Auschwitz" (2020-01-28, sputniknews.com/europe/202001281078161620-der-spiegel-apologises-after-claiming-american-not-soviet-troops-liberated-auschwitz/) [archive.is/7yDrs]
* "Listening to Mike Pence’s history, you might think it wasn’t Soviets but Americans who liberated Auschwitz" (2020-01-24, rt.com/news/479142-pence-auschwitz-erasing-history/) [archive.is/OIRqU]
- image caption: Survivors of Auschwitz leave the liberated death camp in this Soviet photo dated February 1945
* "Putin skews Holocaust history at global Auschwitz commemoration event in Jerusalem" (2020-01-23, jta.org/2020/01/23/global/putin-skews-holocaust-history-at-global-auschwitz-commemoration-event-in-jerusalem) [archive.is/1aYyP]
- [comment]: According to the most widely-cited estimate, 40 percent of Jews that died during World War II were from the Nazi-occupied parts of the Soviet Union (2.5 million out of the total 6 million victims of the Holocaust). - from: "Russia’s Auschwitz Archives: How the Soviet Army Liberated the Nazi ‘Death Factory’ ; Nazi Germany carried out its human eradication programme on an industrial scale, inspired by Hitler’s wicked views about race and people. That genocidal effort relied heavily on a net of extermination camps, responsible for the deaths of millions of people. Of those death factories, Auschwitz was the most 'efficient' " (2020-01-26, sputniknews.com/europe/202001231078116798-russias-auschwitz-archives-how-the-soviet-army-liberated-the-nazi-death-factory/) [archive.is/6CsQI].
So, JTA does not cite the sources, of course, and denies the victims of the Nazi death campaign in the Eastern Front. What matter of editorialship is employed there?
The deathcamp statistics for Jews were for those from across Nazi-dominated Europe (1.1 million at Auschwitz, for example). What about the rest of those who were citizens of USSR? I don't see death count statistics in the USA actually including the victims of the Wehrmacht's internment camps and free-fire operations across the Eastern Front. The Russians account for these victims in their statistics of the anti-Jewish death campaign. Who's trying the deny the Holocaust on the Eastern Front? These Nazis burned entire villages with flame throwers, they put people up in barns and burned them all! Why do we forget?
- image caption: Second World War of 1939-1945. Soviet troops liberate the prisoners of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau (Poland)
* "Extraordinary newly colourised images of Auschwitz; 75 years ago reveal full horror of the Nazis' most notorious concentration camp where 1.1 million people died or were killed between 1940 and 1945" (2020-01-20, dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7909371/Horror-vivid-new-light-Pictured-colour-time-Auschwitz-75-years-ago.html) [archive.is/JOteH]
* "Holocaust Survivors Reveal How Filipinos Protected Them When Everyone Else Wouldn’t; A compelling new documentary shines a light on the Philippines’ biggest moral victory in World War II" (2020-01-21, esquiremag.ph/long-reads/features/jewish-survivors-in-the-philippines-documentary-a00293-20200122) [is.gd/iFm8Pb]
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* "Ukrainian nationalist leader demands compensation from Russia for ‘occupation in 20th century’ " (2020-01-27, rt.com/russia/479332-ukraine-nazi-soviet-compensation-occupation/) [archive.is/Fsi4V]
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* " 'We've never had justice': How the Supreme Court rigged land deals against native people" (2018-10-16, michiganradio.org/post/weve-never-had-justice-how-supreme-court-rigged-land-deals-against-native-people) [archive.is/MgZkL] [begin excerpt]: All first-year Harvard law students had to take a class on property law. That is where Singel first heard of the landmark case known as Johnson v M’Intosh.
“The original Johnson of the case was actually a former Supreme Court justice, and a wealthy shareholder in the Illinois and Wabash Land Company,” Singel says. “And this land company had speculated in the purchase of Indian lands.”
It purchased those lands directly from the tribes.
At that same time, the U.S. federal government was out trying to get land from tribes. It negotiated treaties with the tribes. Once the government got the land, it would parcel it out to sell to settlers.
So along comes this settler named M’Intosh. He buys from the government. But the land he buys, well it’s already been bought, by the Illinois and Wabash Land Company.
Remember, that’s the group of wealthy investors that buys directly from the tribes. And Johnson is a part of that group.
So Johnson bought from the tribe.
M’Intosh bought from the U.S. government.
The question before the Supreme Court: Who really owned the land now — Johnson or M’Intosh?
It’s an easy question if you think the tribe owned its land in the first place. Because if the tribe owned it, it could sell it to the Illinois and Wabash Land Company, Johnson’s group. Johnson wins.
But the real question was whether the tribe owned the land in the first place.
Did they even have the power to sell it?
“And, to the surprise of the lawyers and shareholders in the Illinois and Wabash Land Company, Justice Marshall in the Johnson v. M’Intosh case declared that the tribes did not have this power.” Singel says. “And that they only had the power to transfer their property to the federal government.” [end excerpt]
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* "George Orwell was a reactionary snitch who made a blacklist of leftists for the British government" (2016-12-14, bennorton.com/george-orwell-list-leftists-snitch-british-government/) [archive.is/uvajK]
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* "U.S. Congress: Antonio Meucci is the inventor of the telephone" (2016-07-21, ponderwall.com/index.php/2016/07/21/bell-did-not-invent-telephone-us-rules/) [archive.is/XwPNk]
* "Antonio Meucci: Did Meucci Invent the Telephone Before Alexander Graham Bell?" (2019-07-03, thoughtco.com/antonio-meucci-4071768) [archive.is/HAbyz] [begin excerpt]: Who was the first inventor of the telephone and would Antonio Meucci have won his case against Alexander Graham Bell if he had lived to see it adjudicated? Bell was the first person to patent the telephone, and his company was the first to bring telephone services successfully to the marketplace. But people are passionate in putting forward other inventors who deserve the credit. These include Meucci, who accused Bell of stealing his ideas.
Another example is Elisha Gray, who almost patented the telephone before Alexander Graham Bell did. There are a few other inventors who have invented or claimed a telephone system including Johann Philipp Reis, Innocenzo Manzetti, Charles Bourseul, Amos Dolbear, Sylvanus Cushman, Daniel Drawbaugh, Edward Farrar, and James McDonough. [end excerpt]
* "Telephone History" (cybertelecom.org/notes/telephone.htm) [archive.is/FeR0]
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