Spent a very emotional afternoon visiting Gunnersbury Cemetery in London, to view the monument to the twenty-two thousand Polish officers and intellectuals murdered at the Katyn Forest near Smolensk on Stalin's order. When the Germans discovered the mass grave in 1942, Stalin of course attributed the murders to them, and the British and American governments to their shame went along with the hoax. Nor was the crime officially acknowledged until the Russians did so, in Gorbachev's time. Then and only then were the Poles permitted to add the year--1940--to the monument in Gunnesbury.
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“Before the supreme leader trained, financed and armed Hamas to go rape and torture Israeli women, his thugs had been raping and torturing Iranian women.” -- Mark Dubowitz
Monday, June 20, 2011
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- Name: Daniel Ford
- Location: New Hampshire USA
I started this blog because something of the sort was required of students at King's College London in its online M.A. program in War in the Modern World. Of course it proved to be addictive. So here I am, long since graduated (M.A. 2010) but still blogging. Blue skies! -- Dan Ford
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Stranger, go, tell the Spartans -- / No; simply say 'we obeyed'....
Make us sound laconic and all iron. / Well ... what are you waiting for[?]
Report only what you were bade; then find yourself
Some sweet wine or plump girl in that narrow city.
What truth soldiers would speak / None would hear, and none repeat.
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