From TNR, “Putin Is Using WWII for Propaganda Because It’s the Best Memory That Russia Has” by Tikhon Dyadko, assistant editor at DozhdTV, an independent station. A joke is making the rounds among Vladimir Putin’s opponents in Moscow: His two … Continue reading →
6 Unexpected Things I Learned Resisting the Nazis in WWII Worth a few minutes. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. www.gormogons.com
Continue reading →That’s Estonian for “BEAR!” Remember, way back, say, two weeks ago, when I said this? “Force people to think about what our options would be in case of a Russian ‘intervention’ in a NATO ally to ‘protect’ a Russian minority.” … Continue reading →
Gentle Readers, Dr. J. saw this meme and had to post it, breaking radio silence 4 hours earlier than planned. It nicely summarizes The Czar’s excellent ~1021 word polemic in one picture and 21 words. Back to your regularly scheduled … Continue reading →
Remember the Leftˆs portrayal of George W. Bush as an intellectual dullard who skated through major schools by the grace of who he was, rather than what he knew? And how he was surrounded by corrupt scoundrels barely smarter than … Continue reading →
We received an interesting appendix on World War II by SW, who writes in with some historical sobriety—just how much we fought prior to Pearl Harbor: The US suffered combat casualties long before Pearl Harbor. The earliest was the USS … Continue reading →
Island Dweller writes in to reference our exploration of FDR’s military aims. As usual, ID has some very interesting information: Most dread and awful majesty: I have read with great interest of your find of the newspaper you uncovered during … Continue reading →
One of the largest conceits of American history is the mythology still surrounding Franklin Roosevelt. While it has become fashionable on the Right to implicate Roosevelt for all sorts of anti-American nastiness—and mind you, often with good reason—quite a lot … Continue reading →
Okay, see, this should have been posted yesterday, but the Czar only got around to it today. Sorry, ID. Most illustrious majesty: “An iconic photograph of ‘The Sandman’ taken during the height of the attack that illustrates the conditions under … Continue reading →
Island Dweller sent two odd pieces of fragmented writing on onion skin. It indeed occurred to us to lay one on top of the other, whereupon not one but two messages came out: the first message contained all curved symbols, … Continue reading →
‘Puter perused the Wall Street Journal this morning, as he whipped up a batch of lard-boiled narwhal pancreas for breakfast, as is his wont. Somewhere in the middle of the A Section, ‘Puter stumbled upon the photo, above, illustrating an … Continue reading →
The Harry Potter series was largely an allegory of the early to mid-20th century European conflicts personified in World War I and II. In crude terms the Voldemort and the Death Eaters were Germany and Hogwarts and the Order of … Continue reading →
Yes, the short answer, is that Captain America: The First Avenger is a pretty solid movie. There is plenty in it to anger homeland haters: the movie is accepts as a given that the Nazis are evil, that America is … Continue reading →
Sixty seven years ago at 0630 British Double Summer Time (GMT+2), the largest amphibious assualt began when over 155,000 Allied troops began to storm a 50-mile stretch of the beaches of Normandy, France (Utah and Omaha began at 0630 and Sword … Continue reading →
The last photo of Adm. Yamamoto, April 18th, 1943.He was dead by 10:00 a.m. Tokyo time. R.I.P. From the depths of interstellar space, the unusually pensive Klingon, Da’rod of Q’onos, writes in: Most Puissant and Beneficent Volgi, I have been … Continue reading →
On January 2, 2011, Major Richard Winters passed away in Palmyra, Pennsylvania. If you’re not familiar with Maj. “Dick” Winters then you probably didn’t watch the impressive “Band of Brothers” mini-series on HBO (later re-aired on a number of cable … Continue reading →
These attacks, orchestrated by Japan’s infamous Unit 731 between 1932 and 1945, are the only documented mass use of germ weapons in modern times. Scholars say that we will never know exactly how many were killed. Sheldon H. Harris, the … Continue reading →
On this day in 1945, the Soviet Army liberated the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz. This single death camp killed over 1 million Jews and other “undesirables” during the Nazi horror according to historic consensus. The Soviets estimated the Nazis … Continue reading →
Is the Pope Bavarian? Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. www.gormogons.com
Continue reading →Yesterday was the 70th anniversary of the start of World War II. In the early morning hours of September 1, 1939 Nazi Germany (shortly followed by the treacherous Soviets) commenced its blitzkrieg on Poland, which fell within the month. Poland, … Continue reading →
Because it’s not awesome and terrible (in the original senses) already? Dear God, though, if you can watch this without getting chills up your spine, your affairs had better be in order, because, you know, you’re dead. Via Warming Glow. … Continue reading →
“In August there will be such a yelling about the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, saying that that was the step that led to the Second World War, and that Germany and the Soviet Union were two equal, disgusting, totalitarian monsters.” And your … Continue reading →
More on the Ho 229. GorT reminded his Œc. Vol. that many references refer to the Air & Space Museum’s Ho 229 as an airframe. He’s right—and wrong, it turns out. According to this long article on its history (with … Continue reading →
Oops. I was correcting a typo in GorT’s post on the Ho 229, and I accidentally published it in advance of its scheduled time, below my long post about Gov. Sanford. Apologies to GorT. Everyone click here now. Let me … Continue reading →
Pictured is a rebuilt version of what was to be the Nazi German’s Horten 229 fighter-bomber. Look familiar? Northrop Grumman used plans and prototypes found in Germany and recreated it. It was tested against the equivalent radar systems of the … Continue reading →
The Gormogons wish to remember those who participated in D-Day 65 years ago. For our younger readers who may not know much about it, read below. Generally the survivors of WWII don’t talk about it much so quietly remember today. … Continue reading →
Happy V.E. Day to everyone, and a special thanks to the brave men who liberated Europe. V.E. Day is truly a celebration the heirs of the Allies and the Germans can share, given the spectacular success of the Federal Republic … Continue reading →
Man, sounds like we almost had the first Papal decampment since Avignon in World War Two. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. www.gormogons.com
Continue reading →The Telegraph, home of the world’s finest obituaries here memorializes John Fancy, a WWII RAF warrant officer who likely drove the German POW camp system batty with his sixteen different escape attempts. Alas, the Kommandanten proved more competent than the … Continue reading →
