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nika_815 июня 2024 г.Reeducation was also seen as an extension of psychological warfare, the military use of propaganda.
17107- nika_85 июня 2024 г.Читать далее
During the so-called wild purge (l’épuration sauvage) in France, which took place in 1944, before the war was even over, about six thousand people were killed as German collaborators and traitors by various armed bands with links to the resistance, often communists. Double that number of women were paraded around, stripped naked, their heads shaven, swastikas daubed on various parts of their anatomy. They were jeered at, spat on, and otherwise tormented. Some were locked up in improvised jails, and raped by their jailers. More than two thousand women were killed. Similar scenes, though not nearly on the same scale, took place in Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, and other countries liberated from German occupation. Sometimes, the naked women were tarred and feathered in the traditional manner of vengeful mobs.
1673 - nika_815 июня 2024 г.Читать далее
And so the Korean People’s Republic was doomed. What followed was a tragedy. The country would effectively be split into two, with Kim Il-sung in charge of the provisional Communist Party government in North Korea, and Rhee controlling the South. Keene’s Korean friends in Tsingtao soon proved to be more correct than even they could possibly have anticipated. The ghastly Korean War, started by an invasion from the North in 1950, ended in a stalemate after more than two million civilian deaths. Seoul, having survived World War II more or less intact, lay in ruins, as did Pyongyang in the North. The North continued to be ruled by a tyrannical quasi-imperial dynasty, and the South endured decades of military rule.
1596 - nika_815 июня 2024 г.
When the U.S. troops finally landed in the southern port city of Inchon several weeks after the Japanese surrender, they had no clue about the country or the aspirations of its people. Lieutenant General John R. Hodge had been chosen to be the man in charge just because he happened to be in the neighborhood—on the Japanese island of Okinawa. His political advisers hardly knew any more about Korea than he did. None spoke a word of Korean.
1575 - nika_815 июня 2024 г.
Churchill himself was a little dazed by it all, but took his defeat in relatively good humor. His wife, Clementine, perhaps hoping to see more of her husband at home, had told him it may well turn out to be a blessing in disguise. To which Churchill responded: “At the moment it seems quite effectively disguised.”
1540 - nika_86 июня 2024 г.
Another specialty of Unit 731 was to infect large numbers of rats with deadly bacteria and drop them over Chinese cities together with thousands of fleas in porcelain bombs suspended from little parachutes.
1575 - nika_86 июня 2024 г.
Ending the cycle of vengeance is still the best reason for conducting trials.
1555 - nika_86 июня 2024 г.
De Gaulle mended France in the same way Japan was “mended,” or Italy, or Belgium, or even Germany: by keeping damage to the prewar elites to a minimum. He could not afford to polarize his nation further. The expertise of businessmen, financiers, lawyers, professors, doctors, and bureaucrats was needed. They had the right contacts.
1545 - nika_85 июня 2024 г.Читать далее
The fact is, Jewish survivors were an embarrassment. They did not fit the heroic narrative that was being hastily constructed in the wreckage of the war, in the Netherlands, in France, or indeed in any country where people sought to forget inconvenient, painful truths about the past. Men and women who had survived the humiliations of wartime occupation as best they could, by keeping their heads down and looking the other way when bad things happened to others, pretended to have been heroes all along.
1578 - nika_85 июня 2024 г.
The surest way to repay humiliation with humiliation is to rape the women, in public, in front of the men, who are helpless to do anything about it.
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