Tag: leningrad
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Flash : annual tribute in Riga to the Latvian SS
On March 16, 2023, as every year since independence in 1992, a few hundred people commemorate in Riga, capital of Latvia, the Latvian legionnaires who died in the Second World War. These legionnaires were members of the lettischen SS-Freiwilligenlegion [Latvian SS volunteers legion], two SS divisions, 15. and 19. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS, which fought in Nazi ranks, against the Red Army, between 1942…
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Les “valeurs”, c’est comme la culture ou la confiture
les Français comprendront Les politiciens occidentaux parlent beaucoup, en particulier les oligarques non élus de l’administration européenne, de vraies pipelettes. Dans ce flot d’ardentes professions de foi, certaines tirades sont dignes d’intérêt. Ce 15 février 2023, l’Espagnol Josep Borrell, Haut représentant de l’Union [européenne] pour les affaires étrangères et la politique de sécurité, a ouvert…
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[Sharing] Holocaust Remembrance (21 January 2023) – Norman Finkelstein
Imagine the hysterical shrieks of outrage if, during one of Israel’s innumerable wars of aggression—mislabeled wars of “self-defense” or “necessity”[1]—Germany had supplied Israel’s enemy with tanks. The New York Times reports that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has been pressured to supply Ukraine with tanks. So far Scholz has hesitated because he does not believe the…
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History, on this day : 80 years ago, the blockade of Leningrad is broken
multimedia album The European Nazi invasion of Soviet Union has begun on June 22, 1941 On September 7, 1941, the Germans reach lake Ladoga, east of Leningrad, which is encircled by Finns to the north, on Karelian isthmus, Germans and Spaniards to the south and east Adolf Hitler’s ambition is to level the birthplace of…