[FoxNews] Gen. Sherman born in Ohio, lost father at age 9, patron of theater, 'Uncle Billy' to his men.
Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman lives on as a larger-than-life figure in the oft-told annals of American military history.
The most intimate and unknown details of the man behind the legend are uncovered at the Sherman House Museum in Lancaster, Ohio.
It opens for the season today, Wednesday, April 10.
"Sometimes we turn these heroes, like we’ve done with George Washington, almost into gods. I think that does a disservice to them," Michael Johnson, director of the Sherman House Museum, told Fox News Digital.
"I think it needs to be presented that these were ordinary people who did extraordinary things when the moment came, and that’s what set them apart."
Sherman was born in the home in 1820 and lived there until his father died when the future West Point cadet and U.S. Army legend, one of 11 children, was just 9 years old.
The general has long been remembered as a fearsome military commander, which included a notorious reputation in the American south.
But the legend of the warrior overshadows the thoughtful artist discovered at the Sherman House Museum: patron of the theater, Renaissance man and beloved old commander called "Uncle Billy" by his men long after the war.
The museum displays a copy of Sherman's brilliant illustration, "Death of Centaur," which he drew while a cadet at the United States Military Academy.
Quoting the words of my Southern side Grandfather.
"Nothing honoriable about the man."
Looking what he pack of animal did, one can easily see Sherman was the leader of an pack of Terrorists and should have been put on trial for war crimes.
His group killed 1000's of non-combatants / civilians during his march through GA.
His pack of animals stole food, straved civilians, conducted summary executions w/o a trial. Raped females of any age, color, free or slave.
Even at the Officer rank levels
His pack of Terrorists locked people in the barns and burned them alive.
Plus many of the slaves his pack of Terrorists claimed to have "freed", where then used by his own troops as slave labor to move supplies and then fed little and abandoned when they could no longer do the job. Yes many died.
BTW: Read the "Ghost Amendment" aka the "Corwin Amendement"
Then as yourself was the war really about slavery or Tax Revenues, supplies and Federal control over state rights?
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I'm sure Southerners look upon Sherman like Japanese look upon Curtis LaMay. Lesson here is don't bombard a federal military installation.
As for tax revenue, seems the national government keep rolling without collecting that revenue from 1861 on. As for slavery, the simple fact that the 13th Amendment could never pass in 1860 but did in 1865 says it all.
The problem for the south was that they had a ruling class much like that which we have today. They were not going to give up the power they had which was largely dependent upon that way of doing business. They were able to exploit local tribalism to sacrifice way too many of their brethren to keep that power. Sounds way too familiar to us from this perspective.
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People who are still milking their grievances from the Civil War make New Orleans denizens still blaming their current problems on Katrina look reasonable.
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Amen & amen at #4. And.....the same middle class and poor did the majority of dying. Strange how that works.
US House and Senate plus President Buchanan approved it.
Purposed by Northerns, mainly NORTHERN STATES voted to and accept the amendment BEFORE the Civil War started. Then ONLY after the Union Army finally started winning some battles did a number vote to recind it?
Incoming Linclon even verbally stated his supported it.
Corwin Amendment Text "No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State."
Yes, you read it right, OK to keep slaves and indetured servants.
Why was it purposed by the Northern Politicians,?
Northern Elite & Businesses had a lot of indetured servants and several NORTHERN States allowed Slavery.
Summary: The Corwin Amendment is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution that has never finally adopted. However, owing to the absence of a ratification deadline, could still be adopted by the state legislatures.
Wondering Outloud
Could DC renew it maybe it for others reasons?
BTW: My Fathers side of the family (Mass) were indentures servants to a Northern Cotton Mill owners famly for a number of years
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Sherman said that if the U.S. had lost the war he would be prosecuted for war crimes. Union artillery had barely gotten into range of Atlanta when, on July 19, 1864, Sherman ordered a bombardment of the city's buildings: "No consideration must be paid to the fact they are occupied by families, but the place must be cannonaded." The Yankee guns fired their first shells on July 20, and within a few days, Confederate newspapers began reporting casualties.
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...My current residence is almost within sight of where Sherman oversaw the bombardment of Columbia, and the hits on the State House are commemorated by bronze stars set into the structure (NOTE: Sherman had lousy gunners by that point of the war; they were firing over open sights from just over a mile away and barely nicked it.)
Had Sherman not taken Atlanta and began his march to the sea, the Civil War wouldn't have ended for at least another 18 months past when it did - October of 1866. The March tore out the heart of the Confederacy, and destroyed literal years worth of supplies and food, as well as the means to transport them to the troops. Had those supplies and support still been available, even Robert Lee might not have been able to convince his men not to melt into the hills and fight a guerilla war.
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Civil Wars are always ugly, NN2N1. They’re fought like two cats in a sack.
And who knows what the CSA would have done had they managed to drive the war into Union territory. Do you think they would have outlawed slaveholding as a matter of philosophy had they won the war? Or the North indentured servitude? States’ Rights or no, making people legally chattel is an abomination.
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The town of Lawrence, Kansas, was a center of anti-slavery sentiment. In August 1863, Quantrill led an attack on the town, killing more than 180 civilians.
The Confederate government, which had granted Quantrill a field commission under the Partisan Ranger Act, was outraged and withdrew support for such irregular forces. By 1864 Quantrill had lost control of the group, which split up into small bands.
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And as for the "If this, it that, if this not that, the South might have won (or at least not lost)" follow that to its conclusion with the USA never involved in WW I or WW II. And all the ramifications of that.
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War is cruelty. You cannot refine it. Humanitarian catastrophe is not a recent invention of the Juice.
I can understand how some people might regard Sherman as a monster. He did harsh things but some insight into the man's character can be found in his letter to the Mayor of Atlanta where he lays out his case for making war. It is blunt, but the conclusion reads as follows:
I want peace, and believe it (can) only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect and early success.
But my dear sirs when Peace does come, you may call on me for any thing-Then I will share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
Now you must go, and take with you the old and feeble, feed and nurse them, and build for them, in more quiet places, proper habitations to shield them against the (wea)ther until the mad passions of men cool down, and allow the Union and (pe)ace once more to settle over your old homes at Atlanta. Yrs., in haste,
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I have been biased against carbines since Vietnam. I was issued and carried a CAR-15 so-called 'commando', aka XM177(maybe E1, I forget). Basically a single shot, sometimes two-shot LOUD short barreled almost-M16. Highly unreliable. No forward assist. Did I say LOUD? After a few months I was able to swap it out for an XM16, a huge improvement while not perfect, was good enough. I really ought to get over it and look at the current carbines.
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[REGNUM] In April, officials at the Brussels headquarters of the North Atlantic Alliance have many reasons for corporate events and mutual congratulations. One after another follows the anniversary of the founding of NATO's European Command and the return of France to the military structure of the bloc, the fifteenth anniversary of the fourth expansion to the east (with the admission of Croatia and Albania to the alliance). But the main, “semicircular” date in Brussels and NATO capitals from Washington to Skopje was celebrated at the beginning of the month. 75 years ago, the North Atlantic Treaty was signed in Washington, marking the beginning of what current NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg called “the strongest, most resilient and most successful” military bloc in history.
The treaty for which the organization is named was signed on April 4, 1949, in the giant neoclassical hall of Washington's Departmental Auditorium on Constitution Avenue (now the building bears the name of billionaire Andrew Mellon ) in front of a large crowd of elite guests and in the presence of President Harry Truman.
Conspiracy theorists like to point out the symbolic significance of the site of the Atlantic Pact. When the building was laid in 1932, the cornerstone was presented to then-President Herbert Hoover by the Masters of the Masonic Lodge. But in fact, if the 1949 treaty symbolized anything, it was another milestone in the unfolding Cold War.
The pact of 12 Atlantic powers became a logical continuation of Winston Churchill’s Fulton speech about the Iron Curtain from the Baltic to the Adriatic, the refusal to include the USSR and Eastern Europe in the “Marshall Plan”, the thermonuclear and hydrogen race, plans for war with the USSR (the American “Totality” and the British “Unthinkable” plan "), the first Berlin crisis and the first proxy clash between the Western and Soviet blocs - the Greek Civil War.
The document was signed by Secretary of State Dean Acheson (soon to be one of the “fathers” of the Korean War) and eleven of his colleagues - the foreign ministers of Canada and a dozen Western European states, from pacifist Iceland without an army to semi-fascist Portugal.
The main allies of the United States in the recent anti-Hitler coalition were represented by politicians with a positive “background”: an opponent of the Munich agreement, a man from Churchill’s team, Ernest Bevin, and the chief of French diplomacy, Robert Schumann - who, however, managed to vote for the dictatorial powers of Marshal Philippe Petain, but miraculously avoided being sent to Dachau for connections with the Resistance.
Truman, presenting the text of the treaty, poured out peace-loving rhetoric: “This treaty is a simple document. The nations that signed it undertake to comply with the peace-loving principles of the UN and maintain friendly relations.”
But, as Joseph Stalin noted a little later (responding to the head of the British Foreign Office on the pages of Pravda ), if “the North Atlantic Pact is a defensive pact” and is directed against aggression, then “why didn’t the initiators of this pact invite the Soviet Union to take part in this pact?”
So adorably disingenuous.
The rhetorical question of the Soviet Secretary General was essentially answered by the first Secretary General of NATO, Baron Hastings Lionel Ismay (this British representative headed the alliance until 1957): the goal of the bloc is “to prevent the USSR from entering Europe, to ensure an American presence in it and to contain Germany.”
The “containment” of the Germans, we note, was expressed in the admission of West Germany to the alliance in 1955. This was already the second expansion to the East after the inclusion of Greece and Turkey bordering the USSR (in 1952).
Moreover, a year after Stalin’s death, in March 1954, the Soviet government sent an unexpected note to the United States, Great Britain and France with a request... for the admission of the Soviet Union to NATO.
Still disingenuous. And still aggressive.
This application, submitted on behalf of three UN members - the USSR, the Ukrainian SSR and the Byelorussian SSR, however, could hardly be considered a consequence of the beginning “de-Stalinization”.
At the beginning of 1949, the head of the Soviet Foreign Ministry, Andrei Vyshinsky, through the leadership of the British Communist Party, sent a proposal to the cabinet of Labor member Clement Attlee to discuss Moscow’s participation in NATO’s predecessor, the Western European Union. London's expected refusal gave Stalin a reason to call the Atlantic blocs a “undermining of the UN.”
It seems that the same Vyshinsky (or rather Nikita Khrushchev and Vyacheslav Molotov ) pursued the same goal in 1954. The USSR's gesture demonstrated to the whole world that behind the talk and construction of a security architecture, a military machine is actually being built, in which there is only room for supporters of redividing the world according to their vision.
The point of no return was the inclusion of Germany in the alliance - which crossed out the provision of the Potsdam Treaty on a non-aligned post-war Germany. Already in response to this, the Warsaw Pact Organization was created, and the bipolar split of the world finally took shape.
Formally, the first military action of the alliance was Operation Maritime Monitor in 1992 - the deployment of a NATO naval group led by the American aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt to the Adriatic to enforce the blockade of Yugoslavia.
But in fact, the participation of the European allies and Canada in the Korean War (formally a military action of the UN), and the support that Britain, France, Germany and Italy provided to the United States during the Vietnam War - all this was due, among other things, to obligations under the alliance.
What an attempt to bring the country out of strict subordination to the alliance (theoretically, this is possible thanks to Article 13 of the North Atlantic Treaty) may turn out to be can be clearly seen in France. Charles de Gaulle, who had long sought the same powers that the United States and Great Britain had, became disillusioned and in 1966 announced the withdrawal of the Fifth Republic from the military organization of the alliance, retaining membership only in the political structures of NATO.
De Gaulle lost his post two years later - after ultra-left protests (ironically, many of the leaders of “Red May 1968” would later become systemic Atlanticist politicians and ideologists), and France began to drift back to the alliance. In 1995, Socialist President François Mitterrand returned the country to participation in the development of NATO military plans. In 1997, Gaullist Jacques Chirac made an attempt to bring France back into the military organization of the alliance - but could not agree with Bill Clinton on the division of powers on the southern flank of NATO.
And in 1999, France already fully participated in the aggression against Yugoslavia unleashed by the same Clinton : NATO planes that attacked the defenseless European country took off from both the American aircraft carrier Enterprise and the French Foch.
“Without any resolution of the UN Security Council, they directly began military operations, a war, in fact, in the center of Europe,” noted Russian President Vladimir Putin on the 25th anniversary of the NATO strike on Yugoslavia.
Only in 2009, another Gaullist, Nicolas Sarkozy, de jure approved the return of France to NATO military structures. But to join the “action”, which claimed the lives of 2.5 thousand peaceful Serbs and Montenegrins, no formal decision was required.
Just like Romania - which, without waiting for formal inclusion in the alliance, provided its territory for NATO attacks on Yugoslavia.
Such a development would hardly have been possible if it had not been for the end of the Cold War on Western terms. Let us recall that in 1990, an agreement was concluded between representatives of the USSR, the USA and the Federal Republic of Germany (without the participation of representatives of the GDR) on the unification of Germany under the leadership of the Federal Republic of Germany - that is, in fact, on the annexation of the GDR by West Germany.
Led by Mikhail Gorbachev, the USSR pledged to withdraw troops from East Germany in exchange for a verbal promise from NATO representatives not to expand the alliance’s borders further to the east.
For a long time, the leadership of the alliance completely denied the fact of oral agreements with the head of the USSR. Only in 2018 were documents declassified that contained information that there was an agreement. “We deceived him,” as the theorist of Western geopolitics Zbigniew Brzezinski said about Gorbachev.
As a result, first in 1990, the NATO border moved east to the Oder-Neisse line, the former border of the GDR. And then the alliance began to pick up the legacy of the Warsaw Pact dissolved in July 1991.
To all Russia’s attempts (its applications to join NATO were rejected in 1993 and 2000) to come to an agreement on security issues, the alliance responds with hysterical cries about Russian aggression (exactly repeating NATO’s rhetoric towards the USSR).
In 1999, after the required transition procedures, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic joined NATO, and in 2004 seven more countries, including three former Soviet republics - Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. The Kaliningrad region became an enclave surrounded by NATO countries; the border of the alliance with Russia ran along the Narva River, 130 km from St. Petersburg.
Throughout the 90s, zeros and tens, the alliance “digested” the Balkans. In 1995, NATO countries carried out the “Considerate Force” action - aerial bombing of the Bosnian Serbs (152 civilians were killed, 273 were injured). Four years later, the above-mentioned aggression against Yugoslavia followed - Operation Allied Force.
Let us add that during this “action to protect Kosovo Albanians,” which had no military-strategic significance, NATO used prohibited weapons, including shells with depleted uranium.
At the same time, the alliance absorbed the loyal republics of the former Yugoslavia - in 2004, the process of admitting Slovenia ended, in 2009, Croatia was included in NATO (along with Albania, a former neighbor and mortal enemy of Yugoslavia), in 2017, the “master” of Montenegro, Milo Djukanovic, for his accommodation were rewarded with the inclusion of the republic in the alliance. And finally, in 2020, North Macedonia was admitted to NATO.
Now almost all fragments of dismembered Yugoslavia have the opportunity, as junior partners, to participate in actions to introduce democracy in third world countries. Three such actions can be distinguished since the beginning of the century.
Firstly, this is the Afghan campaign. If we do not count the assistance of NATO countries to the “freedom fighters” - the Mujahideen during the war of 1979–1989 (thanks to which the military-political career of Osama bin Laden was successfully launched ), then October 2001 should be considered the starting point.
During the American Operation Enduring Freedom (2001–2021) and the “work” of NATO members of the International Security Assistance Force, 46,300 civilians were killed. The production of methamphetamine in democratized Afghanistan increased 10-fold in 2017–2021 alone, and by 2018 the share of the Afghan “product” in the global heroin market was 92%.
The ending of the American and NATO operation in Afghanistan is well known. The world will long remember people falling from great heights, trying to cling to taking off planes and service dogs, who were several positions higher on the American evacuation lists than even the British allies.
If NATO entered Afghanistan under the guise of a UN Security Council resolution (adopted, however, only two months after the invasion), then the Americans and their alliance colleagues began the war in Iraq of 2003–2011 without any regard for international law.
Iraq’s “punishment” for the mythical development of weapons of mass destruction (remember Secretary of State Colin Powell ’s test tube that became a meme ) turned into a humanitarian disaster. According to a report from the Iraqi Ministry of Health to WHO alone, up to 203 thousand civilians died during the first stage of “democratization” (2003–2006). According to the non-governmental project Iraq Body Count, by 2011, 1 million 620 thousand people were killed, died from wounds and diseases caused by the war, of which 72% were civilians.
After the bombing, more than 750 hospitals, 3,970 clinics and 5,700 educational institutions were destroyed.
If not all NATO partners took part in the aggression against Iraq (Britain, Turkey, Italy distinguished themselves, including the “newcomer” Poland), then the intervention in Libya of March - October 2011 was already a joint action of the majority of the alliance members. Except perhaps for Germany, which allowed itself to abstain. One of the main initiators of the aggression was Nicolas Sarkozy, who returned France to the NATO military structure.
The Ministry of Health of the then-not-yet-destroyed Libyan Jamahiriya managed to report 700 civilians who died in March–May 2011 after attacks on Tripoli, Benghazi and other cities. If we believe the latest estimates from Iranian sources, up to 40 thousand Libyans became victims of the NATO intervention.
The main thing is that NATO’s assistance to the Libyan “democratic opposition” in “liberation from the tyranny of Muammar Gaddafi ” led to the complete destruction of Libyan statehood and two civil wars (2011–2014 and 2014–2020), which also claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people, in particular 14, 2 thousand people during the last conflict. One of the most stable and socially prosperous countries of the former third world has turned into another “failed state” and a supplier of migrants to Europe.
From February 2022 to the present day, the Kiev regime has been the next object of NATO’s special care.
The alliance is close to the geopolitical goal identified at the end of the Cold War. With the admission of former “neutrals” - Finland and Sweden - to NATO, an anti-Russian sanitary cordon has practically been built from the Barents Sea to the Black Sea, the links of which are intended to be post-Soviet countries from Estonia to Moldova and Ukraine. The plans were disrupted first by the failure of the pro-Western “color revolution” in Belarus in 2020, and then by the beginning of the Northern Military District.
Today, NATO continues its aggressive policy, sponsoring the Ukrainian regime with weapons that are used to attack peaceful Russian cities.
Residents of Belgorod, as well as residents of Belgrade, are unlikely to agree with the compliment that Jens Stoltenberg gave on the 75th anniversary: “We are doing something right! We helped spread peace, democracy and prosperity throughout Europe."
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] The FSB in the Smolensk region released an archive about the executions of Poles by the Nazis and the falsification of the Katyn case. Copies of unique historical documents were transferred to the OGKU "State Archive of Contemporary History of the Smolensk Region" as part of the project "Without a Statute of Limitations"
Start. Part 1.
This declassified archive includes working documents from 1944-1945 of the Smersh counterintelligence departments - certificates, interrogation reports, intelligence data, special messages to the Center.
The most interesting part of the declassified archive is the protocol of interrogations of Poles🇵🇱 who served in the Wehrmacht in auxiliary and construction military units of Smolensk and the Smolensk region.
For example, a native of Poland, ethnic Pole Eduard Potkansky, who served at the Krasny Bor station in the Smolensk region, in a separate labor battalion, testified as follows during interrogations.
“In the summer of 1943, the Germans decided to show the participants of the working battalion the graves of Polish officers in the Katyn Forest. According to the Germans, up to 12 thousand executed Polish officers lay in these graves, and up to 3 thousand more people are in another place, and these graves have not yet been opened “
What struck him,” Potkansky recalled, was that near the graves lay officer belongings, personal letters and documents of officers, as well as Polish cash. Moreover, what most struck those who examined these “evidence” was that the cash was brand new, absolutely not from everyday circulation. And even more so - not after being in the ground for 4 years, since 1939, when, according to the Germans, the NKVD officers shot Polish officers.
Another prisoner of war, Roman Kowalski, who also inspected this mass grave in the Katyn forest, testified that “from the majority of the corpses of those executed [it was] clear that these were very recent victims. In the published lists of executed Polish officers in Katyn, many of our working battalion found their own among the names of the dead acquaintances arrested even earlier by the Gestapo and sent to concentration camps in Germany."
The administrator of Russian workers at the Focke-Wulf plant, a certain Smektal, testified that in April 1943 he was appointed as a delegate of the commission to investigate the massacre of Polish soldiers and officers in Katyn forest.
“One of the leaders of the Pozno SD (security service of the Reichsführer SS - TASS note), Sturmbannführer Gepner, had a conversation with the commission in which he warned that their trip to Katyn had propaganda purposes and that upon returning from there they should declare that they had personally seen 12 thousand corpses of Polish officers. <...> [After returning] the SD obliged the members of the commission to speak before meetings of Polish workers with propaganda reports about the trip to Katyn. The abstracts of the reports were previously edited by the SD"
Also, from Smektal's testimony:
"As a former judicial worker, I was it is clear from the behavior of these “witnesses” that they were specially prepared by the SD... The corpses shown to the commission did not look as if they had lain in the ground for several years... The clothes had not decayed, but on the corpse [of the Polish military leader,General of the Brigade Bronislav] Bogatyrevich, the lower part of his face with a mustache and goatee has been preserved"
The truth is slowly but surely making its way.
More from regnum.ru FSB declassifies the archive on the Nazi falsification of the Katyn Affair
The Directorate of the Federal Security Service for the Smolensk Region has declassified archival documents about crimes committed by the Nazis in the region during the Great Patriotic War, including materials about the executions of Poles and the falsification of the Katyn Affair by the secret services of the Third Reich.
The documents were transferred to the OGKU “State Archive of Contemporary History of the Smolensk Region” as part of the project “Without a Statute of Limitations,” TASS reports.
The archive includes certificates, intelligence data and special messages from the Smersh counterintelligence agency, which date back to 1944–1945. Most of the documents consist of protocols of interrogations of Poles who served with the Nazis in the Smolensk region, as well as forensic expert of the Budapest City Royal Court Imre Sechodi and a member of the commission investigating the murder of Polish officers in the Katyn Forest Boleslav Smektal and other involved.
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As reported by IA Regnum, the FSB regularly publishes archival documents about the events of the Great Patriotic War. Thus, in February, materials about the brutal execution of underground members of the Young Guard by the Nazis in the winter of 1943 were declassified. In particular, copies of interrogation protocols of participants in the execution of Oleg Koshevoy, Lyubov Shevtsova and other Young Guards were made public.
On April 11, the FSB declassified documents according to which the German punitive detachments, which the Nazis formed after the occupation of the Smolensk region during the Great Patriotic War, massacred civilians. In particular, more than 1 thousand people were shot in Smolensk, as follows from declassified archival documents.
On January 19, the Russian FSB directorate for the Arkhangelsk region declassified the archival file against a participant in Nazi punitive operations, a native of the Kherson region, Edgard Zeel. He and his accomplices spent them during the Great Patriotic War in the Kamenets-Podolsk region of Ukraine.
According to documents, in January 1944, policeman Seel, together with an SS detachment, took part in a punitive operation against Soviet partisans and civilians in the village of Konevka.
On October 4, 2023, the FSB declassified an archive about the cooperation of the Poles with the Germans in the Stalag-1A concentration camp. According to the documents, the Poles in the Nazi concentration camp earned the right from the Germans to occupy the best places. They were appointed to manage areas - the dining room, bathhouse, warehouse. By currying favor, the Poles received good positions.
Related from regnum.ru FSB declassified documents on mass executions of residents of the Smolensk region by the Nazis
The German punitive detachments that the Nazis formed after the occupation of the Smolensk region during the Great Patriotic War massacred civilians. In particular, more than 1 thousand people were shot in Smolensk, as follows from declassified archival documents.
The regional FSB department declassified the materials and transferred them to the State Archive of Contemporary History of the Smolensk Region as part of the project “Without a Statute of Limitations.” Among them there are testimonies of German tankman Karl Schneider and prisoner of war Heinz Winkler.
“In 1941, our regiment gathered more than one thousand local residents on the outskirts of Smolensk <...> [They] were stripped and took off their shoes, then shot with automatic weapons. Among those shot were women and children,” TASS quotes Schneider as saying.
According to Winkler's testimony, the Wehrmacht military massacred the inhabitants after occupying Smolensk. Gestapo officials and SS troops passing through the city were especially atrocious. At the slightest suspicion, they took entire families out of town and shot them, as stated in a special message from the counterintelligence agency SMERSH.
Several thousand prisoners of war died in the winter of 1941–1942 in the Smolensk camp from cold and hunger.
Captured corporal Hans Farber, who served in a punitive company, spoke about the massacre of residents of one of the villages near Yelnya. In March 1942, partisans settled in the village. The Nazis boarded up houses and set them on fire, resulting in the deaths of residents and 15 partisans who did not have time to hide in the forest. Farber admitted that he was unable to name the number of Soviet citizens killed by the “firing squad,” since “it is significant.”
German units entered Smolensk on July 16, 1941. Soviet troops liberated the region in early October 1943.
As Regnum reported, the FSB regularly publishes archival documents about the events of the Great Patriotic War. In February, materials about the brutal execution of underground members of the Young Guard by the Nazis in the winter of 1943 were declassified. In particular, copies of interrogation protocols of participants in the execution of Oleg Koshevoy, Lyubov Shevtsova and other Young Guards were made public.
[Federalist] Any news outlet supposedly taking it seriously that President Biden is "examining" his authority to protect U.S. territory from foreign invaders is immediately identifiable as a White House accomplice to buy Biden more time before the election. That’s all they’re doing for him, and it’s not up for debate.
Biden said in an interview this week that he’s "examining whether or not I have that power" to prevent migrants from illegally forcing themselves across the Southern border, a calamity he is directly responsible for and which he has done nothing of substance to mitigate.
During a 2020 Democrat primary debate, Biden said the United States "should immediately have the capacity to absorb" hordes of migrants making their way north from Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East. In another debate, he said, "We’re a nation that says if you want to flee and you’re fleeing oppression, you should come."
They heard him. They came. Thus began Biden’s reign of border terror. In February 2021, the first full month of his presidency, there were just more than 100,000 illegal migrants apprehended at the border. By December last year, that number had tripled.
The public has gone from concerned to outraged, with immigration surpassing even the economy as Americans’ top concern. Biden hasn’t felt the urgency. To date, his most notable action has been to ask that Congress legalize up to 5,000 illegal border crossers per day. Before that, he asked his ever-competent vice president Kamala Harris to investigate the "root causes" of migration from Central America. (Her staff and activist allies reacted by running to the media complaining the job was too hard.)
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He’s not examining gun control. Joe’s implementing gun control. Joe’s actions reveal his priorities. Does he visit East Palestine right away? Does he visit Key bridge right away? Priorities revealed.
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^His priority is "will there be ice cream for dinner?".
[American Greatness] Donald Trump has locked up the necessary delegates for the Republican presidential nomination, which means it’s time for every political junkie’s favorite quadrennial game: Veepstakes!
Every four years, commentators, political consultants, and elected officials all chime in with their takes on who a presidential candidate’s running mate should be. Perhaps the candidate ought to select a veep from a swing state. Perhaps the candidate ought to select someone who fits a certain demographic box. Maybe the candidate ought to pick someone with a very similar political philosophy—or perhaps someone whose ideological bona fides assuage any lingering concerns that party loyalists might harbor about the man at the top of the ticket. Or maybe it’s really as easy as picking someone who the presidential nominee simply likes and vibes with on a personal level.
There is no shortage of factors to consider. In 2024, the conversation really only pertains to former (and perhaps future) President Donald Trump; Democrats and their doddering Delawarean dolt at the top of the ticket, President Joe Biden, are stuck with cackler-in-chief Kamala Harris. Democrats are hemorrhaging minority voter support at breakneck pace, and they cannot afford to risk a greater exodus of Black voters by unceremoniously dumping a Black woman from their ticket.
Ultimately, the vice presidential pick should be selected by paying some consideration to the above factors, but above all, it is imperative to assess the contenders a little less robotically. We’re talking about human beings, after all. As dumbed down as it may seem, it is actually crucial to select someone who has the right "vibe"—or, to put it a little more technically, best captures the prevailing zeitgeist.
All of that is why Trump should select as his running mate the precocious freshman U.S. senator from Ohio, J.D. Vance. That lovable little scamp
Congressman Vance was born in 1984 — he is only precocious politically.
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Presidents have changed VP picks between elections. FDR switched to Harry Truman in 1944, luckily. In my opinion Harry was the last good Democrat president.
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From a ticket-balancing perspective and to attract Dem voters, Trump needs a fat, stupid black woman as VP. He can lock her in the White House basement for four years or make her ambassador to Chicago.
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I'd argue the last good Democrat president was Grover Cleveland. I think he would put modern-day GOPers to utter shame. Cleveland got a little weird towards the end with his Spain-Cuba policy, but overall, he was pretty good.
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