I waited to post this until after the DDay celebrations because I did not want some low life trying to equate this with my personal beliefs…..I post it as a historic thingy and the opinions of others.
I read a piece where the Russians are pushing the info that the DDay celebrations are nothing more than “fake news” ………
Ahead of the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of France, Russia’s foreign minister has written an article arguing that the commemorations of the event are part of a “false” history that belittles the contributions of the Soviet Union toward defeating Nazi Germany.
Sergey Lavrov chastised Western powers in an article published in Russia’s International Affairs magazine on Tuesday, ahead of events in Europe to mark the D-Day landings on the Nazi-occupied Normandy coast.
“False interpretations of history are being introduced into the Western education system with mystifications and pseudo-historical theories designed to belittle the feat of our ancestors,” Lavrov wrote.
Geez! The Russian Federation is sounding a lot like the USSR these days.
I can see their “anger” if you will, that they had wanted a 2nd front for a couple of years to give the Red Army some relief which at the time was ass deep in fighting the Nazis back…..but to attack the celebration of DDay as fake news is a pail too far. Keep in mind that about 30 million Soviets died during WW2 (a fact that the West seems to overlook)
My uncle use to get miffed when this day came around for he felt slighted….he had fought across North Africa then up Italy and then into Southern France….Operation Dragoon……he felt that America had forgotten their contributions in blood and treasure……
So in his honor I give this in tribute……
The Allied invasion of southern France in the late summer of 1944, an operation first code-named ANVIL and later DRAGOON, marked the beginning of one of the most successful but controversial campaigns of World War II. However, because it fell both geographically and chronologically between two much larger Allied efforts in northern France and Italy, both its conduct and its contributions have been largely ignored. Planned originally as a simultaneous complement to OVERLORD, the cross-Channel attack on Normandy, ANVIL actually took place over two months later, on 15 August 1944, making it appear almost an afterthought to the main Allied offensive in northern Europe. Yet the success of ANVIL and the ensuing capture of the great southern French ports of Toulon and Marseilles, together with the subsequent drive north up the Rhone River valley to Lyon and Dijon, were ultimately to provide critical support to the Normandy-based armies finally moving east toward the German border.
https://history.army.mil/brochures/sfrance/sfrance.htm
Least We Forget!
Many contributions get overlooked on ‘specific days’. Like the fact that the war in The Pacific dragged on much longer, or that we were unlikely to have won that war without the sacrifice of the Soviet Union. But it is not fake news to celebrate one special day, and anyone who has ever really studied that war is well aware of the efforts of all the allies.
Best wishes, Pete.
Sad but true…and if logic were employed then the US should have concentrated on the aggressor…the Pacific. chuq
So true! Thank you for posting this Chuq! Have a beautiful weekend! Michael
You as well….chuq
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FAKE NEWS cries … from Russia! … ‘Ahead of the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of France, Russia’s foreign minister has written an article arguing that the commemorations of the event are part of a “false” history that belittles the contributions of the Soviet Union toward defeating Nazi Germany.’
TY…wink wink…HUGZ chuq
Most welcome!! Peace … and hugs!!
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“Geez”(?)…do you all know how cognitively dissonant this all is? Does it matter? In the slightest? Dear Al, Don’t EVER say you “care enormously about what happens to (me)” again, K? If the demon psychopath from the darkest pits of hell is not what I think, then you better inform me before I hire an assassin as my last act on earth. Seriously, I feel so incredibly abandoned…Are you all trying to precipitate an even more profound crisis, like my heart attack or my cat’s death?… I truly think you are all deluded, and reinforcing each others denial, if you think this is anything but an atrocity you’re allowing to grow by the day. It’s like its actually a source of humor??? You’d like me to be sarcastic-funny to cope? But I’m funny dying instead. Who is being served by this all, and how much more do you think I can take? What IS it I’m supposed to do, hang myself?? From a psych persepective how do you justify this mind fuck on me?
I think you are doing your own mind fuck chuq
Is that comment on the wrong post?
I.m not sure where it should be…….left field sounds about right chuq
I feel sorry for his cat.