Knighthoods (+ WW2)

[Harrysz]

[Piesnchess]

Arise Sir Nathan Buckley. !

[Damien]

Eddie has done more for this great nation than Phil the Greek. Give one to the Prez

[Wokko]

Eddie has done more for this great nation than Phil the Greek. Give one to the Prez

Eddie fought in WW2?

[David]

Good point. Give it to Stalin.

[regan is true fullback]

Eddie fought in WW2?

just be careful about the ww2 card - amongst the war heroes are Marshall Tito, Charles de Gaul, Stalin the biggest baddest bolshie of them all, MacArthur, Eisenhower and John Grey Gorton. While they are all war heroes, some of their other work, particularly that of Stalin, leaves a bit to be desired. There's also Ferdinand Marcos, a bit of a hero to some of Tony's friends, sadly it was discovered he made it all up.

[Member 7167]

My personal war hero was Sir George Jones. A great Australian who survived Gallipoli, was an air ace in a Sopwith Pup over the battlefields of France in WW1 He was Air Vice Marshall for the RAAF in WW2 when we had one of the biggest air forces in the world with some 90 squadrons. My other hero Is Sir John Monash who redefined modern warfare and saved many Aussie and allied lives by employing tactics designed to win but keep his troops alive as much as possible. Both men were great Aussies and contributed in meaningful ways after the war.

[RudeBoy]

Eddie fought in WW2?

just be careful about the ww2 card - amongst the war heroes are Marshall Tito, Charles de Gaul, Stalin the biggest baddest bolshie of them all, MacArthur, Eisenhower and John Grey Gorton. While they are all war heroes, some of their other work, particularly that of Stalin, leaves a bit to be desired. There's also Ferdinand Marcos, a bit of a hero to some of Tony's friends, sadly it was discovered he made it all up.

Speaking of Stalin, tonight's news mentioned that today was the 70th anniversary of the allies liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp/slaughterhouse. What they failed to mention was that it was our allies, the Soviet Red Army, who liberated Auschwitz.

PS. While I am not an admirer of Stalin, who was a brutal dictator, it's worth remembering that the Russians lost about 25 million people fighting and eventually defeating the Nazis. They were the first to defeat the Germans at Stalingrad, which was the turning point in the war, beginning the slow, German retreat all the way to their eventual defeat and surrender to the Russians in Berlin. Without that incredible and heroic sacrifice of the Russians, the Nazis would no doubt have won the war. Because the Soviets were communists, it seems we rarely, if ever, can bring our selves to acknowledge the debt we owe them for defeating the Nazis in WWII.

[CarringbushCigar]

Dont get me started on MacArthur FFS.

[Wokko]

Eddie fought in WW2?

just be careful about the ww2 card - amongst the war heroes are Marshall Tito, Charles de Gaul, Stalin the biggest baddest bolshie of them all, MacArthur, Eisenhower and John Grey Gorton. While they are all war heroes, some of their other work, particularly that of Stalin, leaves a bit to be desired. There's also Ferdinand Marcos, a bit of a hero to some of Tony's friends, sadly it was discovered he made it all up.

Speaking of Stalin, tonight's news mentioned that today was the 70th anniversary of the allies liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp/slaughterhouse. What they failed to mention was that it was our allies, the Soviet Red Army, who liberated Auschwitz.

PS. While I am not an admirer of Stalin, who was a brutal dictator, it's worth remembering that the Russians lost about 25 million people fighting and eventually defeating the Nazis. They were the first to defeat the Germans at Stalingrad, which was the turning point in the war, beginning the slow, German retreat all the way to their eventual defeat and surrender to the Russians in Berlin. Without that incredible and heroic sacrifice of the Russians, the Nazis would no doubt have won the war. Because the Soviets were communists, it seems we rarely, if ever, can bring our selves to acknowledge the debt we owe them for defeating the Nazis in WWII.

The Russian people who sacrificed so much and then had to live under the yoke of the vile ideology that 'won' the battle between Fascism and Communism I can thank, Stalin, Lenin, Trotsky, Marx can all go and eat a dick.

[HAL]

"Without your space helmet Dave, you're going to find that rather difficult" -- HAL.

[Harrysz]

We're debating history. This is great.
Would the Germans have been victorious in WW2 if the Russians had been defeated by them? Who knows. The Germans would've made use of all that Russian oil. Eventually though the atomic bombs just might've hit Berlin before Japan.
Anyway, The Russians swallowed up Poland, East Germany, Czecoslovakia
and Hungary so they didn't come out of it too badly.

[think positive]

Eddie fought in WW2?

just be careful about the ww2 card - amongst the war heroes are Marshall Tito, Charles de Gaul, Stalin the biggest baddest bolshie of them all, MacArthur, Eisenhower and John Grey Gorton. While they are all war heroes, some of their other work, particularly that of Stalin, leaves a bit to be desired. There's also Ferdinand Marcos, a bit of a hero to some of Tony's friends, sadly it was discovered he made it all up.

Speaking of Stalin, tonight's news mentioned that today was the 70th anniversary of the allies liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp/slaughterhouse. What they failed to mention was that it was our allies, the Soviet Red Army, who liberated Auschwitz.

PS. While I am not an admirer of Stalin, who was a brutal dictator, it's worth remembering that the Russians lost about 25 million people fighting and eventually defeating the Nazis. They were the first to defeat the Germans at Stalingrad, which was the turning point in the war, beginning the slow, German retreat all the way to their eventual defeat and surrender to the Russians in Berlin. Without that incredible and heroic sacrifice of the Russians, the Nazis would no doubt have won the war. Because the Soviets were communists, it seems we rarely, if ever, can bring our selves to acknowledge the debt we owe them for defeating the Nazis in WWII.

Well I didn't know that, interesting post, cheers

[regan is true fullback]

The Russian people who sacrificed so much and then had to live under the yoke of the vile ideology that 'won' the battle between Fascism and Communism I can thank, Stalin, Lenin, Trotsky, Marx can all go and eat a dick.

Sadly Fascism did not die after ww2 but was alive and thriving in Spain, where Franco and his mates in the Opus Dei cult murdered 3 hundred thousand people...and adopted their kids out to good Catholic families...

their work continues in the Philippines to this very day, thanks to the Bishop of Lipa and Jose "Sissy Boy" Sisson and his mates.

Our own B.A.Santamaria was a big fan of Mussolini and Franco.

[Mugwump]

Eddie fought in WW2?

just be careful about the ww2 card - amongst the war heroes are Marshall Tito, Charles de Gaul, Stalin the biggest baddest bolshie of them all, MacArthur, Eisenhower and John Grey Gorton. While they are all war heroes, some of their other work, particularly that of Stalin, leaves a bit to be desired. There's also Ferdinand Marcos, a bit of a hero to some of Tony's friends, sadly it was discovered he made it all up.

Speaking of Stalin, tonight's news mentioned that today was the 70th anniversary of the allies liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp/slaughterhouse. What they failed to mention was that it was our allies, the Soviet Red Army, who liberated Auschwitz.

PS. While I am not an admirer of Stalin, who was a brutal dictator, it's worth remembering that the Russians lost about 25 million people fighting and eventually defeating the Nazis. They were the first to defeat the Germans at Stalingrad, which was the turning point in the war, beginning the slow, German retreat all the way to their eventual defeat and surrender to the Russians in Berlin. Without that incredible and heroic sacrifice of the Russians, the Nazis would no doubt have won the war. Because the Soviets were communists, it seems we rarely, if ever, can bring our selves to acknowledge the debt we owe them for defeating the Nazis in WWII.

It's only fair that they played their part since they were Nazi Germany's allies until mid 1941, joining in the thuggery to carve up Poland and invade Finland n 1939-1940. They were, of course, utterly amoral and unprincipled as Russia has pretty much always been, historically. Right through the rape of Berlin and the transformation of entire Eastern Eu nations into colonized holding camps.