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Today is the 100 th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party on July 1, 1921. Hold the confetti and balloons, please. That’s 100 years and an ocean of blood. It’s been a century of carnage: The Chinese Civil War (2.2 million dead), the Great Leap Forward (15 million to 55 million dead), the Cultural Revolution (upwards of 20 million dead), the conquest of Tibet, Tiananmen Square, the One-Child Policy (including forced abortions and sterilizations), the subjugation of Hong Kong, the Uyghurs in concentration camps (more than 1 million imprisoned since 2017), the leaky lab in Wuhan ( worldwide death toll, 3.94 million and climbing). Regarding the Peoples Barbed Wire Enclosure of China, a few things to consider: ....
BARBAROSSA How Hitler lost the war – By Jonathan Dimbleby Published Penguin Viking £25 (hbk) – Book review by Dave Wiltshire wrp.org.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wrp.org.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Stream or download audio For this article This article is also available in audio format. Listen now, download, or subscribe to “Hakai Magazine Audio Edition” through your favorite podcast app. Article body copy Egill Bjarnason has been Hakai Magazine ’s go-to writer on all things Iceland since 2017. Bjarnason, an Icelander, has introduced readers to the small island nation’s fixation on swimming lessons for all, its connection to the first moon landing, and its role in seasickness research. The following excerpt, “That Time Hitler’s Girlfriend Visited Iceland and the British Invaded,” is from Bjarnason’s first book, How Iceland Changed the World. ....
The Nation, check out our latest issue. Subscribe to Support Progressive Journalism The Nation is reader supported: Chip in $10 or more to help us continue to write about the issues that matter. Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? “The truth is,” wrote Lord Byron to his publisher in 1821, “that in these days the grand ‘primum mobile’ of England is cant; cant political, cant poetical, cant religious, cant moral; but always cant, multiplied through all the varieties of life.” In the United States in 2021, we have a great deal of cant, but the word itself isn’t well-known. Cant is the false coin of sincerity. ....
Perhaps it wasn’t Operation Overlord that defeated Hitler, but the failure of Operation Barbarossa 9 April 2021 • 5:00am Jonathan Dimbleby: Like many of my generation, I was brought up to assume that it was the British, supported by the Americans, who beat Hitler Credit: Getty Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941 was the biggest, bloodiest and most barbarous military enterprise in the history of warfare. The purpose of Operation Barbarossa, as the Führer codenamed it, was also the most decisive campaign of the Second World War. Had he achieved its objective – the annihilation of the Soviet Union – he would have been the master of Europe’s destiny. As it was, by the time his armies had reached the gates of Moscow less than six months later, any prospect he might once have had of realising his delusional vision of a Thousand Year Reich had already vanished. ....