Tag: bombing

The largest city in the world located above the Arctic Circle

Murmansk was completely destroyed during World War II. In terms of the number of German bombs dropped per square meter, it is second only to Stalingrad. Located on the coast of the cold Barents Sea, Murmansk serves today as the main northern gateway of Russia. One of the country’s largest ports, through which it conducts regular trade with the rest of the world, is located here.

Learning from History but Idiots never do

How true the advice of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821): ‘He who his first hits twice.’ Now the sweet irony: Russia has done precisely what Germany did in June 1941. Back then, to frustrate a Soviet attack on Germany and the Reich’s allies to the East, Germany pre-emptively struck the American-sponsored Soviet Union. The USSR had been given the go-ahead to overwhelm Europe by Roosevelt’s blank cheque (Lend-Lease Plan).

A MOST UNCIVILISED MEANS OF WARFARE

As the world laments the Carnage of Dresden (February 13/14 1945) one hears the mantra: ‘well they started it’ and ‘they did the same to us.’ In fairness, both refrains result from the truth of the Allied bombing of civilians being withheld or denied (Holocaust denial) spun to favour the Allied perpetrators.