Atlee had a somewhat brutal effectiveness. Some say it came from the trenches in WWI. (View Post)

Both Sweden and Finland are very heavily armed and always have been. Their neutrality was a bit of a Cold War fiction. The Soviet plan for invading Europe included attacking both at the start of a wa… (View Post)

When GWB was president, a Canada anti-nuclear activist was screaming about the fact that American anti-missile defence would draw in Canada. This was on a Canadian radio show. An American general, on… (View Post)

A distant relative got out of the camps, with his sister. Teenagers. Somehow made it back to the family home in Poland. The NKVD put them on a cattle car train for being “ruling class” - like the Ger… (View Post)

{other narrator : Liberalism and Socialism have always been different things. You get Liberal Socialists, but you tend to find more Authoritarian Socialists} (View Post)