Anglo-Boer War impact in South Africa

[ListerG]

I feel vokol for the Russians. They were allied with Hitler and participated in the invasion and dismemberment of Poland before he decided to go full retard and Barbarossa them. Were it not for the staggeringly vast amounts of material they were gifted by the brits and yanks they wouldn't have stood a chance and I think they would have richly deserved to get eaten by their ex mate with the silly mustache.

I feel nothing for the leaders but can’t have been much fun being a citizen or soldier where 50:50 chance of being shot by Germans or NKVD.

I think I read in Anthony Beevor’s excellent book on WW2 that in Stalin’s quest to get to Berlin first, Russia were losing 50 000 troops a day in the last months of the world. Their dreadful behaviour along the way mirrored the Nazis dreadful atrocities in Russia. Truly ghastly stuff.

[oafpatroll]

I feel nothing for the leaders but can’t have been much fun being a citizen or soldier where 50:50 chance of being shot by Germans or NKVD.

I think I read in Anthony Beevor’s excellent book on WW2 that in Stalin’s quest to get to Berlin first, Russia were losing 50 000 troops a day in the last months of the world. Their dreadful behaviour along the way mirrored the Nazis dreadful atrocities in Russia. Truly ghastly stuff.

The Russians could have overthrown the Bolsheviks just as they did the tsar and as they could choose to boot young tsar Vlad now but don't. In his eagerness to take Berlin by some arbitrary date Zhukov ran thousands of largely unarmed men through minefields as it was the most expedient way to clear them. The nice Russians didn't make a big distinction between men and ammunition expenditure and they still don't. They also participated in the slaughter, starvation and working to death in the gulag system of tens of millions of their countrymen. Sometimes as much as 10 percent of the Soviet population were in slave labour camps and millions of Ukranians were intentionally starved to death in an artifially orchestrated famine. There's much wrong with them and I have buggerall sympathy.

[ListerG]

The Russians could have overthrown the Bolsheviks just as they did the tsar and as they could choose to boot young tsar Vlad now but don't. In his eagerness to take Berlin by some arbitrary date Zhukov ran thousands of largely unarmed men through minefields as it was the most expedient way to clear them. The nice Russians didn't make a big distinction between men and ammunition expenditure and they still don't. They also participated in the slaughter, starvation and working to death in the gulag system of tens of millions of their countrymen. Sometimes as much as 10 percent of the Soviet population were in slave labour camps and millions of Ukranians were intentionally starved to death in an artifially orchestrated famine. There's much wrong with them and I have buggerall sympathy.

It’s no wonder it’s such a depressing place with depressing literature. I’m mean …The Brothers Karamazov ….will drive you to vodka quickly.