On This Day in History

[Ringo]

Have you ever heard of the term "one trick pony"?

Have you heard the name of the US Secretary of Defense who shouted, "The Russians are coming!" while jumping out of the window?

 

[Soupnazi630]

Have you heard the name of the US Secretary of Defense who shouted, "The Russians are coming!" while jumping out of the window?

No because you made it up

 

[odanny]

Have you heard the name of the US Secretary of Defense who shouted, "The Russians are coming!" while jumping out of the window?

People jump out of windows in Moscow all the time, it's a strange coincidence that Putin did not like any of them.

 

[Ringo]

No because you made it up

No, not me. But American history is full of fictions, it's overflowing with them anyway.

 

[Soupnazi630]

No, not me. But American history is full of fictions, it's overflowing with them anyway.

Yes you.

No it is not

 

[odanny]

On this day in history, June 17th in 1775, American troops displayed their mettle in the Battle of Bunker Hill during the siege of Boston, inflicting casualties on nearly half of the British troops dispatched to secure Breed’s Hill, where most of the fighting occurred.

Approximately 2,100 British troops under the command of General Thomas Gage stormed Breed’s Hill, where colonial soldiers were encamped. In their fourth charge up the hillside, the British took the hill from the rebels, who had run out of ammunition. After suffering more than 1,000 casualties during their attacks on Breed’s Hill, the British halted their assaults on rebel strongholds in Boston.

The last rebels left on the hill evaded capture by the British thanks to the heroic efforts of Peter Salem, an African-American soldier who mortally wounded the British commanding officer who led the last charge.

Mr. Everett has described Peter Salem, a black man, and once a slave, as having been among the most prominent and meritorious characters at the battle of Bunker’s Hill. Indeed, the historical painting of that scene, by Col. Trumbull, an eyewitness, done in 1786, gives Peter Salem , with other black patriots, a conspicuous place. Salem appears in the lower right foreground.

 

[Deadstick]

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On this day in history, June 17th in 1775, American troops displayed their mettle in the Battle of Bunker Hill during the siege of Boston, inflicting casualties on nearly half of the British troops dispatched to secure Breed’s Hill, where most of the fighting occurred.

Approximately 2,100 British troops under the command of General Thomas Gage stormed Breed’s Hill, where colonial soldiers were encamped. In their fourth charge up the hillside, the British took the hill from the rebels, who had run out of ammunition. After suffering more than 1,000 casualties during their attacks on Breed’s Hill, the British halted their assaults on rebel strongholds in Boston.

The last rebels left on the hill evaded capture by the British thanks to the heroic efforts of Peter Salem, an African-American soldier who mortally wounded the British commanding officer who led the last charge.

Mr. Everett has described Peter Salem, a black man, and once a slave, as having been among the most prominent and meritorious characters at the battle of Bunker’s Hill. Indeed, the historical painting of that scene, by Col. Trumbull, an eyewitness, done in 1786, gives Peter Salem , with other black patriots, a conspicuous place. Salem appears in the lower right foreground.

That was just about a hundred years before the American civil war, and yet it looks like Peter Salem was shown more respect in 1775.

 

[odanny]

That was just about a hundred years before the American civil war, and yet it looks like Peter Salem was shown more respect in 1775.

Crispus Attucks - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Ringo]

The Prerov Massacre: Another European War Crime.

Today marks 80 years since one of the most brutal massacres in postwar Europe carried out by the Czechoslovakians

.On June 18, 1945, in the Moravian town of Prerov, Czech soldiers stopped a train carrying ethnic Germans: civilians expelled from the Hungarian town of Satoraljaujhely.

The train held women, elderly people, and children: not Nazi officials, not SS officers, but ordinary people deported purely for their ethnicity.

What happened next is barely ever mentioned: The Czech troops ordered everyone to strip, marched them to a nearby hillside, and executed them one by one. Parents were murdered in front of their children. One 6-year-old boy asked to be shot after his mother and the executioners obliged
.By the end, 265 people were dead, including 74 children, the youngest just 8 months old.
After the killing, the perpetrators looted the victims’ belongings.

This was deliberate and cold ethnic vengeance.
The massacre was led by Lieutenant Karol Pazur and a unit of former Slovak fascist collaborators who had conveniently switched sides.

But it was not the Czech government that called for justice. On the contrary, Czech authorities attempted to cover up the atrocity.

It was the Soviet Union, particularly Marshal Konev’s headquarters that demanded an investigation and punishment for the perpetrators. Only under Soviet pressure did the case go to trial in 1947, and even then, most of those responsible received only light sentences or none at all.

And now the Czech Republic demolishes monuments to Soviet liberators, including Marshal Konev, who not only liberated Prague, but demanded justice for this very massacre.

It’s easier to speak of “totalitarian victims” than to admit that some of the worst acts of barbarity happened after the war, committed by those claiming to be “on the right side of history.”
Never forget who tried to silence it and who tried to expose it.

 

[Deadstick]

The Prerov Massacre: Another European War Crime.

Today marks 80 years since one of the most brutal massacres in postwar Europe carried out by the Czechoslovakians

.On June 18, 1945, in the Moravian town of Prerov, Czech soldiers stopped a train carrying ethnic Germans: civilians expelled from the Hungarian town of Satoraljaujhely.

The train held women, elderly people, and children: not Nazi officials, not SS officers, but ordinary people deported purely for their ethnicity.

What happened next is barely ever mentioned: The Czech troops ordered everyone to strip, marched them to a nearby hillside, and executed them one by one. Parents were murdered in front of their children. One 6-year-old boy asked to be shot after his mother and the executioners obliged
.By the end, 265 people were dead, including 74 children, the youngest just 8 months old.
After the killing, the perpetrators looted the victims’ belongings.

This was deliberate and cold ethnic vengeance.
The massacre was led by Lieutenant Karol Pazur and a unit of former Slovak fascist collaborators who had conveniently switched sides.

But it was not the Czech government that called for justice. On the contrary, Czech authorities attempted to cover up the atrocity.

It was the Soviet Union, particularly Marshal Konev’s headquarters that demanded an investigation and punishment for the perpetrators. Only under Soviet pressure did the case go to trial in 1947, and even then, most of those responsible received only light sentences or none at all.

And now the Czech Republic demolishes monuments to Soviet liberators, including Marshal Konev, who not only liberated Prague, but demanded justice for this very massacre.

It’s easier to speak of “totalitarian victims” than to admit that some of the worst acts of barbarity happened after the war, committed by those claiming to be “on the right side of history.”
Never forget who tried to silence it and who tried to expose it.

Yes the Czechs were victims of the Nazis, however at the end of the war they carried out some massacres of ethnic Germans, most were Sudaten Germans, it shows to me how primitive Humans can be, the Sudeten Germans sided with Hitler so at the end of the war Czechs turned on them,war brings out the best and worst in people.

BBC NEWS | Europe | Czechs' hidden revenge against Germans

 

[gipper]

Yes the Czechs were victims of the Nazis, however at the end of the war they carried out some massacres of ethnic Germans, most were Sudaten Germans, it shows to me how primitive Humans can be, the Sudeten Germans sided with Hitler so at the end of the war Czechs turned on them,war brings out the best and worst in people.

BBC NEWS | Europe | Czechs' hidden revenge against Germans

Yes war always brings out the worst behavior in our species. Yet, every major religion explicitly prohibits murder of innocents.

The history of our species can be described as a long string of murder and suffering. Could it be humans have a propensity towards murder and mayhem?

 

[Deadstick]

Yes war always brings out the worst behavior in our species. Yet, every major religion explicitly prohibits murder of innocents.

The history of our species can be described as a long string of murder and suffering. Could it be humans have a propensity towards murder and mayhem?

Yes they have as shown when they surrender themselves to the dark side, and that is people of any Nation.

 

[Ringo]

85 years ago, on June 25, 1941, in Kaunas, where the Germans entered, the mass extermination of Jews began.

The pogrom lasted for 5 days. To the cheers of the audience, up to 4,000 people, including women and children, were brutally murdered by Lithuanian citizens.

Public torture and executions were accompanied by very wild scenes. Thus, one of the victims, Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Ossovsky, had his head sawn off in front of his wife and children, and his head was put up in a public place with the inscription: "This is what we will do to all Jews."

One of the active participants in the pogrom, Juozas Luksha, is now honored as a "hero" in modern European Lithuania.

 

[Deadstick]

85 years ago, on June 25, 1941, in Kaunas, where the Germans entered, the mass extermination of Jews began.

The pogrom lasted for 5 days. To the cheers of the audience, up to 4,000 people, including women and children, were brutally murdered by Lithuanian citizens.

Public torture and executions were accompanied by very wild scenes. Thus, one of the victims, Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Ossovsky, had his head sawn off in front of his wife and children, and his head was put up in a public place with the inscription: "This is what we will do to all Jews."

One of the active participants in the pogrom, Juozas Luksha, is now honored as a "hero" in modern European Lithuania.

Yes that scumbag beat people to death in the town square with that iron pole, there were very few Jews left in Lithuania after the war, now they are in Nato and the EU.

 

[gipper]

85 years ago, on June 25, 1941, in Kaunas, where the Germans entered, the mass extermination of Jews began.

The pogrom lasted for 5 days. To the cheers of the audience, up to 4,000 people, including women and children, were brutally murdered by Lithuanian citizens.

Public torture and executions were accompanied by very wild scenes. Thus, one of the victims, Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Ossovsky, had his head sawn off in front of his wife and children, and his head was put up in a public place with the inscription: "This is what we will do to all Jews."

One of the active participants in the pogrom, Juozas Luksha, is now honored as a "hero" in modern European Lithuania.

What happened during WWII in Lithuania and the other Baltic states was appalling. The mass slaughter of Jews by the Germans and Lithuanians is indefensible.

My wife’s entire extended family are Lithuanians. Some of them told me the Germans upon arriving in Lithuania, asked where the Jews were. They were more than happy to identify Jews, because the majority of Lithuanian Jews had sided with the Soviets during its occupation of Lithuania. Most had no idea the Germans intended to exterminate the Jews.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

May 30, 1941: Hitler approved the date for the attack on the USSR.
From the diary of Franz Halder, Chief of the General Staff of the Wehrmacht ground forces:
May 30, 1941, morning meeting. Transport movements for strategic deployment are proceeding very well. The Führer decided that June 22, 1941, would remain the start date for Operation Barbarossa.
This entry became one of the most fateful documents in history. Less than a month later, Germany would treacherously attack the Soviet Union, beginning the bloodiest war in human history.

Less than a month later, Germany would treacherously attack the Soviet Union,

That was hilarious!

 

[Ringo]

Less than a month later, Germany would treacherously attack the Soviet Union,
That was hilarious!

What's funny to you? What I called nazi Germany's violation of the Non-Aggression Pact treacherous?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

What's funny to you? What I called nazi Germany's violation of the Non-Aggression Pact treacherous?

It's funny when Nazis attack their commie allies.
Nazis and commies killing each other is always good for civilization.

 

[Litwin]

while jumping out of the window?

It was a Special "Helping hand from a window! Operation!

 

[Litwin]

It's funny when Nazis attack their commie allies.
Nazis and commies killing each other is always good for civilization.

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