On This Day in History

[Deadstick]

The Dirlewanger SS battalion was nothing more than murderers and rapists freed from prison and unleashed on the resistance in Poland. I read a book about this group and their actions, and at least the Soviets and Poles were able to capture Oskar Dirlewanger after the war, he never made it to the gallows, he was beaten to death before hand.

Come And See was made on the 40th anniversary of the end of WWII and was quite an entertaining film. A different kind of war movie, for sure.

Dirlwanger and his killers were turned loose in the Warsaw uprising, that animal was a child sex offender and psycho, some of his people had been released from mental homes, come and see was a real war film by Elem Klimov it was about the occupation of Belarus and the brutality of the Nazis and their local collaborators.

 

[odanny]

Launched in mid-2003, the six-wheeled robotic rover Opportunity landed on Mars this day, January 24th in 2004, and like its twin rover, Spirit, which had landed on January 3rd, Opportunity analyzed rocks and soils and relayed pictures back to Earth.

 

[Ringo]

January 27, 2024 marks the 80th anniversary of the complete liberation of Leningrad from the nazi blockade. One of the children, who died during the siege of Leningrad was President Putin's older brother.

 

[Ringo]

On February 4, 1904, the Russo-Japanese War began, costing the Russian Empire up to 120,000 lives and shamefully lost by His Imperial Majesty. Nicholas II.
It took Stalin, a commoner, 10 days to bring it all back in 1945, 1 million japanese destroyed and captured, Soviet losses 12,000.

 

[Ringo]

February 9, 1943 the beginning of the Volyn massacre. A hundred Banderites slaughtered the Polish village of Parosla - over 150 inhabitants.

Ukrainian Insurgent Army killed up to 100 thousand poles during the massacre.
The UPA demanded that ukrainians from mixed families kill their closest polish relatives.

 

[odanny]

On this day in 2001, Three Rivers Stadium was imploded, the home of the Immaculate Reception, the first World Series game to be played at night, and where Roberto Clemente had his last hit.

Three Rivers Stadium - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Ringo]

In 1917, French counterintelligence arrested dancer Mata Hari (born Margaretha Geertreude Zelle, Dutch) in Paris on charges of spying for Germany. After sentencing, she was shot in the Chateau de Vincennes on October 15 of the same year.

In 1919, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson decided to unilaterally withdraw U.S. occupation troops from northern Russia. The British War Cabinet acceded to this decision on March 4.

In 1921, the funeral of Prince Kropotkin, a scientist and anarchist.
On this day all anarchists held in Moscow prisons were released on their word of honor. After the funeral at the Novodevichy Cemetery, which took the form of a mass demonstration, they all returned to their places of detention as one, confirming the slogan "anarchy is the mother of order". But it was not this that became a tradition in the Soviet state, but the funeral ceremony of farewell to the deceased in the Hall of Columns at the House of Soviets, which began just as Kropotkin did.

In 1934 The steamer "Chelyuskin" sank, crushed by ice in the Chukchi Sea of the Arctic Ocean. The Chelyuskinites had to spend 2 months on a drifting ice floe. They were taken out by airplanes. 7 pilots involved in this became the first Heroes of the Soviet Union.

In 1945, the troops of the 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts captured Budapest, the capital of Hungary. 130 thousand German and Hungarian soldiers were captured. The Soviet troops lost more than 80 thousand people killed and died of wounds.

In 1953, a military tribunal in Bordeaux sentenced 45 former SS men to death for war crimes.

In 1960, the first French atomic bomb test took place in the Sahara.

in 1991, militants of the left-wing extremist organization Red Army Faction (RAF) shelled the American Embassy in Bonn. Small arms fire came from across the Rhine. The building was damaged, but there were no casualties.

 

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[Ringo]

10 years ago, March 1, 2014 Russian Spring in Donbass has begun.
Donetsk residents gathered on the central square of Donetsk to honor the memory of the Berkut special unit soldiers who died on the Maidan.

The rally participants condemned the coup d'état in Kiev and demanded a referendum on the self-determination of Donetsk Region.

Then the huge demonstration headed towards the regional state administration. People chanted: "Berkut" and "Donbass-Russia"!

After a month of mass protests, the residents of Donbass seized the building of the Regional State Administration. The deputies of the regional council did not meet for an emergency session. And on April 7, the Donetsk People's Republic was proclaimed.

 

[Deadstick]

10 years ago, March 1, 2014 Russian Spring in Donbass has begun.
Donetsk residents gathered on the central square of Donetsk to honor the memory of the Berkut special unit soldiers who died on the Maidan.

The rally participants condemned the coup d'état in Kiev and demanded a referendum on the self-determination of Donetsk Region.

Then the huge demonstration headed towards the regional state administration. People chanted: "Berkut" and "Donbass-Russia"!

After a month of mass protests, the residents of Donbass seized the building of the Regional State Administration. The deputies of the regional council did not meet for an emergency session. And on April 7, the Donetsk People's Republic was proclaimed.

Well if it was good enough for the Maidan mob it was good enough for the people in Donetsk.

 

[Ringo]

On March 5, 1946, in Fulton, Missouri, Winston Churchill gave his famous speech in which he said: "From Stettin on the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic, the Iron Curtain has descended over Europe." The Cold War had begun.
The USSR defeated Hitler, and now, once again, the Communist threat...

 

[TheParser]

One of the children, who died during the siege of Leningrad was President Putin's older brother.

I like to think that the "older brother" would be ashamed of what his sibling is doing now to Ukraine.

 

[Ringo]

I like to think that the "older brother" would be ashamed of what his sibling is doing now to Ukraine.

His brother, who died because of nazis, should somehow be ashamed of his younger brother fighting the nazis of Ukraine and NATO supporting it?
Go sleep it off.

 

[Ringo]

March 4, 1877 The Bolshoi Theater hosted the premiere of Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake".

 

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[Ringo]

On March 8, 1910, at the International Conference of Socialist Women in Copenhagen, Clara Zetkin proposed the celebration of Working Women's Day on March 8.
This date was chosen to commemorate the "march of empty pots" of New York factory workers who marched to demand a reduction in the working day from 14 to 10 hours and improved working conditions.

 

[Zebra]

On March 8, 1910, at the International Conference of Socialist Women in Copenhagen, Clara Zetkin proposed the celebration of Working Women's Day on March 8.
This date was chosen to commemorate the "march of empty pots" of New York factory workers who marched to demand a reduction in the working day from 14 to 10 hours and improved working conditions.

clara zetkin!

her day!

 

[Ringo]

Today, March 9, Yuri Gagarin, the first cosmonaut of planet Earth, would have turned 90 years old.

 

[Deadstick]

I like to think that the "older brother" would be ashamed of what his sibling is doing now to Ukraine.

He would be proud because his Brother is fighting the same Nazis, i believe Putin also lost two Uncles a grandmother and his Dad was wounded at the front, so he won't be taking any lectures from Nazis.

 

[Ringo]