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11 years 4 weeks ago #133
by Juanma66
Maybe this will interest you Bernard, Map of Napoleon's troops in the attack on the city Cadiz
"Plan de Cadiz et de ses environs comprenant les Travaux exécutés ...
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8492414k/f1.zoom.r=cadix.langES
not fear the enemy that attacks you,
be afraid of the false friend that hugs you
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Maybe this will interest you Bernard, Map of Napoleon's troops in the attack on the city Cadiz
"Plan de Cadiz et de ses environs comprenant les Travaux exécutés ...
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8492414k/f1.zoom.r=cadix.langES
not fear the enemy that attacks you,
be afraid of the false friend that hugs you
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11 years 4 weeks ago - 11 years 4 weeks ago #135
by Nikita
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April 19, 1943
The Warsaw Ghetto uprise
The Warsaw Ghetto uprise
"My nie chcemy ratować życia. Żaden z nas żywy z tego nie wyjdzie. My chcemy ratować ludzką godność."
(We don't want to save lives. Nobody will go out of here alive. We want to save human dignity.)
Arie "Jurek" Wilner
Soldier of the ZOB, Jewish fight organisation
(We don't want to save lives. Nobody will go out of here alive. We want to save human dignity.)
Arie "Jurek" Wilner
Soldier of the ZOB, Jewish fight organisation
"Ils voulaient simplement ne plus vivre à genoux."
Jean Ferrat
Nuit et brouillard
Jean Ferrat
Nuit et brouillard
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11 years 3 weeks ago #136
by snowman
"Straight and narrow is the path."
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1944/45 Uprising in Warsaw! (High Quality)
Not exactly the ghetto, but nice to watch
Not exactly the ghetto, but nice to watch
"Straight and narrow is the path."
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11 years 3 weeks ago - 11 years 3 weeks ago #137
by Nikita
Yep Snow, if this video talk about 1944, this is about the uprise of the city itself, that started on August 1, 1944.
These events are also dramatic because History knows that Stalin, who was very hostile to the idea of an independent Poland, ordered the Red Army to stop its advance at West, allowing Hitler's troops to crush the uprising, to slaughter the population and to completely destroy the city.
Of course it was much easier for Stalin to then enter a ghost town and to put it under his boot, under the pretext of "freeing" it... This is very clearly explained here .
The Red Army entered Warsaw only in mid January 1945. Knowing that the Yalta conference was planned two weeks later, it is clear that Stalin wanted to be present at his maximum power — the Soviet occupation of Poland being a fait accompli — and that the "sharing" of Europe after the war was already present in his mind. The Cold War began early ...
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Yep Snow, if this video talk about 1944, this is about the uprise of the city itself, that started on August 1, 1944.
These events are also dramatic because History knows that Stalin, who was very hostile to the idea of an independent Poland, ordered the Red Army to stop its advance at West, allowing Hitler's troops to crush the uprising, to slaughter the population and to completely destroy the city.
Of course it was much easier for Stalin to then enter a ghost town and to put it under his boot, under the pretext of "freeing" it... This is very clearly explained here .
The Red Army entered Warsaw only in mid January 1945. Knowing that the Yalta conference was planned two weeks later, it is clear that Stalin wanted to be present at his maximum power — the Soviet occupation of Poland being a fait accompli — and that the "sharing" of Europe after the war was already present in his mind. The Cold War began early ...
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11 years 1 week ago - 11 years 1 week ago #138
by Nikita
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May 7, 1954
In Diên Biên Phu, at 5:00 pm, the ceasefire ordered by French general Cogny comes into effect. On the Éliane 10 position, the last French soldiers destroy the remaining weapons and ammunitions. At 5:30 pm, the troops of the division 308 of Vietnamese general Giap surround the entrenched camp. It's the end of the French colonies in Indochina. The battle of Diên Biên Phu will have cost the life of 8000 Vietnamese soldiers and 2300 French soldiers, not including the missing, the wounded and those who will die in the prison camps.
However, the lesson will not be understood by the French authorities who hang on to their colonial empire. In Algeria, in the months and the years which will follow, a lot of blood will have to flow again, before they accept the inevitable march of history and the fact that the colonizer, whatever the mask behind which he hides, whatever the reasons he calls to try to legitimize his action, is the occupier of a country which is not his own and that this role, in the short or long term, is the loser's one.
In Diên Biên Phu, at 5:00 pm, the ceasefire ordered by French general Cogny comes into effect. On the Éliane 10 position, the last French soldiers destroy the remaining weapons and ammunitions. At 5:30 pm, the troops of the division 308 of Vietnamese general Giap surround the entrenched camp. It's the end of the French colonies in Indochina. The battle of Diên Biên Phu will have cost the life of 8000 Vietnamese soldiers and 2300 French soldiers, not including the missing, the wounded and those who will die in the prison camps.
However, the lesson will not be understood by the French authorities who hang on to their colonial empire. In Algeria, in the months and the years which will follow, a lot of blood will have to flow again, before they accept the inevitable march of history and the fact that the colonizer, whatever the mask behind which he hides, whatever the reasons he calls to try to legitimize his action, is the occupier of a country which is not his own and that this role, in the short or long term, is the loser's one.
“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires,
that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate."
that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate."
Edward W. Said
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