August 23 (Another Huge Day)
476 - Odoacer was elected 'King of Italy' by Germanic barbarians.
Odoacer, chief of the Heruli tribe, finally put an end to the Roman Empire by forcing the abdication of Emperor Romulus Augustus...He could have claimed the title himself, but knew it was a useless honor - and more of a death-sentence than anything else.
It’s important to note Odaocer was of Germanic origin (really he was half Hun, half Scirian), and not only ended the Roman Era in Western Europe, but also began the Germanic Era in Europe - which still exists.
1833 - Britain abolished slavery in its colonies, freeing 700,000 slaves.
It’s impossible to minimize the importance of Britain banning slavery, and the role it played in ending the African Slave Trade...As the world’s greatest sea-power, the Brits did much to keep the slave trade from prospering by policing the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Caribbean.
1939 - Joseph Stalin and German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop signed a non-aggression pact between the Soviet Union and Germany, freeing Hitler to invade Poland and Stalin to invade Finland: WWII.
Stalin sold what little soul he had to the Devil.
That said, there's no denying the importance of the Soviets extending their strategic depth west when the Germans came calling two years later...This depth forced the Germans to make mistakes and expend manpower, and more importantly slowed down their invasion long enough for Winter to set in - the only thing that may have stalled them at this point in time.
1942 - The Battle of Stalingrad began: WWII.
Note: Other dates are often listed as the start of the battle (as early as August 19), because battle lines and skirmishes happened before the 23rd, but this is the day the battle got hot.
The Germans were beginning the greatest, most brutal battle in world history, and it didn’t turn out well for the 12-Year Reich...In fact it became the great reversal of the Eastern Theatre, and one of the main turning points of the war.
Stalingrad wasn’t strategically necessary for the Germans, but Hitler insisted on destroying the city of Stalin’s name.
The Wehrmacht knew it would be a horrible battle, because its logistics would be a complete mess, but Luftwaffe chief (Goering) insisted he’d be able to supply the army from the sky...The Fat Field Marshal failed Hitler at Dunkirk, in the Battle of Britain, and again at Stalingrad as well.
The battle ended on February 2, 1943, and the statistics are amazing: The Germans lost over 850,000 troops. The Soviets lost between 750,000-1,500,000 troops and 40,000-150,000 civilians (the numbers vary, because the Soviets were notorious liars).
I can’t tell you how much I recommend you read about the Battle of Stalingrad...Click here to read more about this battle.
1991 - In the wake of a failed coup by hard-liners in the Soviet Union, President Mikhail Gorbachev and Russian President Boris Yeltsin acted to strip the Communist Party of its power and take control of the army and the KGB.
How do you spell the end of any dictatorship? When its marriage with the military and intelligence agencies are split...This was a very foresighted event.
Unfortunately, the KGB more or less reclaimed Russia when Vladimir Putin took charge.
1305 - William Wallace, Scottish patriot and a leader of the struggle against the English, was hanged, disemboweled, beheaded and quartered in London.
Such was justice in the Middle Ages...Or the modern-day Muslim world.
1927 - Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston for the murders of two men during a 1920 robbery. Both were vindicated in 1977 by Massachusetts Governor Michael S. Dukakis.
These two have become a favorite cause celeb for Liberal jackals, who claim the two were scapegoated as Communists, and wrongly executed...They may or may not have been Commies, but they were anarchist scum.
Sacco even admitted it at his trial: "I would not wish to a dog or a snake, to the most low and misfortunate creature of the earth - I would not wish to any of them what I have had to suffer for things that I am not guilty of. But my conviction is that I have suffered for things that I am guilty of. I am suffering because I am a radical, and indeed I am a radical."
That's good enough for me. And I love the judges remarks describing the two as "anarchist bastards" - Judge Webster Thayer.
1944 - Romania was liberated from Nazi occupation: WWII.
I must state the obvious, again: Beware when you read of any kind of 'liberation' by the Soviets...The Romanians may or may not have been better off under Soviet domination, but they surely weren’t 'liberated.'
Odoacer, chief of the Heruli tribe, finally put an end to the Roman Empire by forcing the abdication of Emperor Romulus Augustus...He could have claimed the title himself, but knew it was a useless honor - and more of a death-sentence than anything else.
It’s important to note Odaocer was of Germanic origin (really he was half Hun, half Scirian), and not only ended the Roman Era in Western Europe, but also began the Germanic Era in Europe - which still exists.
1833 - Britain abolished slavery in its colonies, freeing 700,000 slaves.
It’s impossible to minimize the importance of Britain banning slavery, and the role it played in ending the African Slave Trade...As the world’s greatest sea-power, the Brits did much to keep the slave trade from prospering by policing the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Caribbean.
1939 - Joseph Stalin and German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop signed a non-aggression pact between the Soviet Union and Germany, freeing Hitler to invade Poland and Stalin to invade Finland: WWII.
Stalin sold what little soul he had to the Devil.
That said, there's no denying the importance of the Soviets extending their strategic depth west when the Germans came calling two years later...This depth forced the Germans to make mistakes and expend manpower, and more importantly slowed down their invasion long enough for Winter to set in - the only thing that may have stalled them at this point in time.
1942 - The Battle of Stalingrad began: WWII.
Note: Other dates are often listed as the start of the battle (as early as August 19), because battle lines and skirmishes happened before the 23rd, but this is the day the battle got hot.
The Germans were beginning the greatest, most brutal battle in world history, and it didn’t turn out well for the 12-Year Reich...In fact it became the great reversal of the Eastern Theatre, and one of the main turning points of the war.
Stalingrad wasn’t strategically necessary for the Germans, but Hitler insisted on destroying the city of Stalin’s name.
The Wehrmacht knew it would be a horrible battle, because its logistics would be a complete mess, but Luftwaffe chief (Goering) insisted he’d be able to supply the army from the sky...The Fat Field Marshal failed Hitler at Dunkirk, in the Battle of Britain, and again at Stalingrad as well.
The battle ended on February 2, 1943, and the statistics are amazing: The Germans lost over 850,000 troops. The Soviets lost between 750,000-1,500,000 troops and 40,000-150,000 civilians (the numbers vary, because the Soviets were notorious liars).
I can’t tell you how much I recommend you read about the Battle of Stalingrad...Click here to read more about this battle.
1991 - In the wake of a failed coup by hard-liners in the Soviet Union, President Mikhail Gorbachev and Russian President Boris Yeltsin acted to strip the Communist Party of its power and take control of the army and the KGB.
How do you spell the end of any dictatorship? When its marriage with the military and intelligence agencies are split...This was a very foresighted event.
Unfortunately, the KGB more or less reclaimed Russia when Vladimir Putin took charge.
1305 - William Wallace, Scottish patriot and a leader of the struggle against the English, was hanged, disemboweled, beheaded and quartered in London.
Such was justice in the Middle Ages...Or the modern-day Muslim world.
1927 - Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston for the murders of two men during a 1920 robbery. Both were vindicated in 1977 by Massachusetts Governor Michael S. Dukakis.
These two have become a favorite cause celeb for Liberal jackals, who claim the two were scapegoated as Communists, and wrongly executed...They may or may not have been Commies, but they were anarchist scum.
Sacco even admitted it at his trial: "I would not wish to a dog or a snake, to the most low and misfortunate creature of the earth - I would not wish to any of them what I have had to suffer for things that I am not guilty of. But my conviction is that I have suffered for things that I am guilty of. I am suffering because I am a radical, and indeed I am a radical."
That's good enough for me. And I love the judges remarks describing the two as "anarchist bastards" - Judge Webster Thayer.
1944 - Romania was liberated from Nazi occupation: WWII.
I must state the obvious, again: Beware when you read of any kind of 'liberation' by the Soviets...The Romanians may or may not have been better off under Soviet domination, but they surely weren’t 'liberated.'
Labels: Civil Rights, Finland, Germany, Poland, Rome, Russia, Scotland, Stalin, UK, WWII
posted by Poison Pero @ Wednesday, August 22, 2018
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