tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38893560.post6236607182849968026..comments2023-10-08T12:11:52.993+13:00Comments on New Zealand Conservative: Poland marks 75th anniversary of Soviet Invasion in 1939Lucia Mariahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10485990994973953860noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38893560.post-50083564854340822242014-09-19T14:19:24.746+12:002014-09-19T14:19:24.746+12:00Ditto.Ditto.Marianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38893560.post-75840529952328364582014-09-19T11:27:06.369+12:002014-09-19T11:27:06.369+12:00Thanks, Pmilt.Thanks, Pmilt.Lucia Mariahttp://nzconservative.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38893560.post-16208338699375487762014-09-19T11:04:30.766+12:002014-09-19T11:04:30.766+12:00Andrei,
I don't know what to say, but thank y...Andrei,<br /><br />I don't know what to say, but thank you for your comment.Lucia Mariahttp://nzconservative.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38893560.post-42266639968548876342014-09-19T11:03:06.594+12:002014-09-19T11:03:06.594+12:00Thanks, Tom.
I have been quite impressed as well ...Thanks, Tom.<br /><br />I have been quite impressed as well by the calibre of teachers at my sons' college, even though a number of them are full on communists (originally from Britain).<br /><br />The internet has definitely changed things, though for many, the sheer volume of information tends to hide stuff in plain sight. You have to know what you are looking for.Lucia Mariahttp://nzconservative.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38893560.post-64048916177775653292014-09-19T07:51:35.703+12:002014-09-19T07:51:35.703+12:00Don't be dismayed Lucia. In the age of the int...Don't be dismayed Lucia. In the age of the internet there's a better chance of spreading knowledge about history than ever before. <br /><br />A recent personal example that might make you feel a bit better - even if it relates to a different theatre of WWII - was my daughter's NCEA L1 history course, where they've been studying the war and finally reached the topic of Japan. The teacher kicked off the session by asking the students to raise their hands as to whether they'd heard of Hiroshima. Almost all did. Then she asked whether they were horrified by what had happened to the Japanese there. Again, most raised their hands. Then she asked how many had heard of The Rape on Nanking. Nobody raised their hands, at which point the teacher actually rubbed her hands together and said: <i>Oh boy, then are you in for a history treat</i>.<br /><br />As Simon Scharma once said, <i>"history ought never to be confused with nostalgia. It's written not to revere the dead, but to inspire the living."</i>Tom Hunternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38893560.post-52629389716140735162014-09-18T22:54:13.685+12:002014-09-18T22:54:13.685+12:00I haven't abandoned you Lucia Maria - you are ...I haven't abandoned you Lucia Maria - you are in my prayers.<br /><br />And I want Poland to thrive and prosper as a sovereign, independent Nation preserving at its heart its Catholic heritage<br /><br />I went to the Polish graveyard at Monte Cassino along time ago now, you know, to pay homage to the fallen Polish heroes of the Italian campaign and saw there a few Russian three bar crosses (not many but a few) along with the Latin ones.<br /><br />For our Friend Milt WW1 ended in 1918 but for our forbears it lasted many more years - Poland was born in a series of wars, the most famous the Polish/ Bolshevik war and there was war between Poland and Lithuania, all teh while the Russian Civil War raged and the Finnish war etc etc<br /><br />And then WW2 - our people suffered and died in their millions<br /><br />And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.<br /><br />I don't believe Russia has any interest in annexing Poland nor the Baltic Republics nor Ukraine - rather my sense is that Russia is interested developing Siberia which is very, very rich and building trade relationships and trade not based upon the US dollar (these things are all happening and as they progress the bellicosity toward Russia just increases)<br /><br />There are people from outside stirring up trouble in Eastern Europe for their own purposes and they are using historical and religious differences to do it - I think this is wickedness.<br /><br /><br />There is another coup coming to Ukraine, more human suffering, more bloodshed - it makes me want to cryAndreinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38893560.post-13858290825029873292014-09-18T21:10:35.756+12:002014-09-18T21:10:35.756+12:00Popularity is no measure of the value of an opinio...Popularity is no measure of the value of an opinion. I respect you, Andrei and Zen Tiger as people of integrity - the near-bottomless depth of disagreement we reach on particular issues isn't relevant to that.pmiltnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38893560.post-63178856549980956792014-09-18T19:28:45.555+12:002014-09-18T19:28:45.555+12:00Pmilt,
You're right, I shouldn't be amaz...Pmilt,<br /><br /><br />You're right, I shouldn't be amazed, and yet I am.<br /><br /><br />This has not been a popular post, btw. It's like few give damn.<br /><br /><br />I'm almost feeling like a complete outcast, many times putting forth the unpopular opinion, so that my "buds" end up abandoning me.<br /><br /><br />I sort of see you a bit like that as well, even though on the spectrum we are somewhat almost polar opposites.Lucia Mariahttp://nzconservative.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38893560.post-12526468277443024432014-09-18T18:33:52.853+12:002014-09-18T18:33:52.853+12:00Don't be amazed - how many people in the West ...Don't be amazed - how many people in the West even know that Poland, the Baltic republics and Finland were invaded by the Soviet Union in 1939? The Polish and Baltic leaders' nervousness about Russian intentions strike a lot of westerners as ridiculous paranoia, exactly because those westerners have no idea of the recent history of those countries.pmiltnoreply@blogger.com