I wonder how many traitors New Zealand harboured during WW2, that actively aided and abetted the enemy ie, those New Zealand was at war with. For it seems to be in league with communists is not something that is really frowned on here. Even when they are supposedly at war with you.
In yesterday's Dominion Post, Bob Brockie, in his World of Science column (pg B5), calmly tells us that in 1940, the Russians asked his father for help. Their soldiers were having problems with dysentry and somehow they knew of his work with seeds. So, the Soviet Union asked him to send over some seeds from the plant Hebe salifocifolia, a plant that supposedly helps relieve or cure dysentry.
In 1940, the Soviet Union was not an ally of New Zealand. The Soviet Union was, however, an ally of Germany, whom we were at war with. And Bob Brockie sees nothing wrong with his father sending over some seeds to help the Soviets with their war effort, and in today's New Zealand is very happy to write about it, not feeling the slightest bit of shame or disquiet.
In yesterday's Dominion Post, Bob Brockie, in his World of Science column (pg B5), calmly tells us that in 1940, the Russians asked his father for help. Their soldiers were having problems with dysentry and somehow they knew of his work with seeds. So, the Soviet Union asked him to send over some seeds from the plant Hebe salifocifolia, a plant that supposedly helps relieve or cure dysentry.
In 1940, the Soviet Union was not an ally of New Zealand. The Soviet Union was, however, an ally of Germany, whom we were at war with. And Bob Brockie sees nothing wrong with his father sending over some seeds to help the Soviets with their war effort, and in today's New Zealand is very happy to write about it, not feeling the slightest bit of shame or disquiet.