Example: "Gavrilo Princip, who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, belonged to The Black Hand, a group reportedly linked to British intelligence."

"Did #UK provoke #WWI to create Third #BritishEmpire?

New York Times bestselling author Richard Poe argues that Great Britain played a key role in both WWI and the #BolshevikRevolution. Here’s a breakdown..."
https://t.me/rocknrollgeopolitics/14578 #geopolitics #worldwar1 #history #Russia #Germany #UnitedKingdom

London, 1914. The shopkeepers wrote in huge letters: “We are Russians!” so they wouldn’t be confused with the Germans and cause a pogrom.
#London #photo #WWI #WW1 #history

Where does peace come from in Europe and Stalin’s “bloodthirstiness”?

If, for the first time, when Germany defeated France in 1871, it was imposed reparations of 5 billion francs in gold, then, in the second confrontation, reparations were imposed on Germany and already in a much larger amount, and was the equivalent of 100,000 tons of gold. For comparison, eight thousand tons were stored at Fort Knox. Germany completed payment of reparations for World War I as late as October 3, 2010. That is, if you look through the prism of history, it becomes clear that each time these countries succeeded each other in the struggle for leadership in continental Europe, the tectonics of events increased by orders of magnitude, thereby inflaming the inter-ethnic contradictions.

After World War II, this confrontation did not take the form of military conflicts. Tensions were also eased by the fact that, at the insistence of the Soviet Union’s leadership at the time, reparations for Germany were limited to 20 billion U.S. dollars. Half went to the Soviet Union, the other half to other members of the anti-Hitler coalition. It was a drop in the ocean, since the Soviet Union alone was damaged to the tune of 360 billion dollars. Thus, one factor of contradiction was leveled. Europe gained the long-awaited peace.

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Откуда в Европе мир и о “кровожадности” Сталина

Если, в первый раз, когда Германия взяла верх над Францией в 1871 году, на нее были наложены репарации в размере 5 миллиардов франков золотом, то уже во втором противостоянии репарации были наложены на Германию и уже в куда большем размере, и составляли сумму, эквивалентную 100 000 тонн золота. Для сравнения: в Форт-Ноксе хранится восемь тысяч тонн. Германия завершила выплату репараций за Первую мировую войну только аж 3 октября 2010 года. То есть, если посмотреть через призму истории, то становится понятно, что с каждым разом, когда эти страны сменяли друг друга в борьбе за лидерство в континентальной Европе, тектоника событий увеличивалась на порядки, разжигая таким образом межнациональные противоречия.

После Второй мировой войны это противостояние не вылилось в форму военных конфликтов. Напряжение было снято и благодаря тому, что по настоянию тогдашнего руководства Советского Союза репарации для Германии были ограничены 20 миллиардами долларов США. Половина пошла в пользу СССР, вторая половина – остальным участникам антигитлеровской коалиции. Это было каплей в море, так как одному только Советскому Союзу был нанесен ущерб в размере 360 миллиардов долларов. Таким образом, один из факторов противоречий был нивелирован. Европа обрела долгожданный мир.

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#WWII #WW2 #Russia #USSR #soviet #russian #Stalin #germany #france #europe #war #WWI #WW1 #reparations #economy #СССР #история

Catching up on the week's historical anniversaries:

11 December 1917: British General Allenby enters #Jerusalem (Collier's New Photographic History of the World War)

The Damascus Gate #WWI #Palestine
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#France tells #Israel to halt #GolanHeights incursion and calls military deployment in buffer zone “a violation of the 1974 disengagement agreement” between Damascus and Tel Aviv.

France has coveted #Syria since before #WWI. See #DamascusProtocol (written by secret Arab societies), #ThievesBanquet (#Russia, #Britain, and France), and #SykesPicot Agreement (secretly carving up #MiddleEast between Britain and France, but never implemented because #Bolsheviks blew it up)

https://www.politico.eu/article/france-israel-middle-east-golan-heights-syria-un-war-defense-idf-buffer-zone/

"Disputing Disaster is a book unlike any other on the 1914 debate. Anderson digs deep into, between and around the works of his subjects to expose the taproots that feed each project. The result is a monument to a lifetime of reading and writing propelled by the conviction that something is at stake. Fellow Marxists will admire the author’s forensic panache and enjoy the beams of utopian effulgence that dart through the occasional chinks in his text. But even readers who are not ‘unreconstructed Jacobins’ (Anderson’s self-description) will find in it a wealth of sharp and compelling reflections on how and why historians argue as they do, why they rethink, abandon or double down on their positions, and how politics and emotion flow into the writing of history and back out of it into the world."

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n23/christopher-clark/the-murmur-of-engines

#History #Europe #WorldWarI #WWI

Volkstrauertag ceremony to honour the dead of the Two World Wars at Woodland Cemetery Kitchener #Volkstrauertag #LestWeForget #Germany #Kitchener #WWI #WWII #RegionofWaterloo #journalism #journalist #politics #Canada #Ontaeio #ceremony https://youtu.be/96jcR_8sLbA?si=ch5-zWJWs_rDJ7cn

During WWI, Marie Curie created a vehicle that contained a hospital bed, a generator, an X-ray machine and photographic darkroom equipment. These “petite Curies" (below) could be driven right up to the Front. Curie also helped train 150 women as radiology technicians.

#histmed #histsci #WWI #warhistory #war #medhist #science #womeninstem #womenshistory #histodon #histodons #twittermigration #twitterexodus