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Hee!
I've always thought history was a fascinating subject, but it can also be quite hilarious at times. Check this out for example (quotes from Norman Davies' "Europe"):
(on the general disarray towards the end of the First World War): In their very last throw, German military intelligence released their most dangerous prisoner, Joseph Piłsudski, and put him on a train to Warsaw. He arrived on the morning of the 11th, supervised the disarming of the German garrison, and, to the chagrin of the Western Allies, took over the reins of an independent Poland.
(on the absurdity of perceiving the Russian civil war as a binary conflict of Reds and Whites): In Ukraine, for example, which constituted one of the most valuable prizes, eleven armies took to the field. [...] The Ukrainian capital, Kiev, changed hands fifteen times in two years.
The advent of communism excited many Western intellectuals, for who the defiant utopian stance of the Bolsheviks in Russia proved unusually fascinating. [...] The long stream of Moscow-bound pilgrims, for whom the most murderous regime in European history could do no wrong, offers one of the stranger spectacles of mass delusion on record.
LOL!
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petulans!
(on the general disarray towards the end of the First World War): In their very last throw, German military intelligence released their most dangerous prisoner, Joseph Piłsudski, and put him on a train to Warsaw. He arrived on the morning of the 11th, supervised the disarming of the German garrison, and, to the chagrin of the Western Allies, took over the reins of an independent Poland.
(on the absurdity of perceiving the Russian civil war as a binary conflict of Reds and Whites): In Ukraine, for example, which constituted one of the most valuable prizes, eleven armies took to the field. [...] The Ukrainian capital, Kiev, changed hands fifteen times in two years.
The advent of communism excited many Western intellectuals, for who the defiant utopian stance of the Bolsheviks in Russia proved unusually fascinating. [...] The long stream of Moscow-bound pilgrims, for whom the most murderous regime in European history could do no wrong, offers one of the stranger spectacles of mass delusion on record.
LOL!
Oh, and Happy Birthday
petulans!