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The Spartakus League

Spartakists street fighting / walkingbutterfly.com

Spartakists street fighting / walkingbutterfly.com

Spartacus (with a ‘c’) was a slave and gladiator from Thracia whom we know was crucified around 71 B.C. This intelligent and athletic man led a slaves’ revolt against mighty Rome. He started the rebellion with seventy fellow gladiators at his side, but rapidly gathered an army of several thousand willing volunteers, mostly escaping slaves. The slave army achieved a great deal before being crushed in battle by the legions of Crassus. All survivors were nailed to crosses on both sides of the Appian Way leading into Rome, pour encourager les autres. (more…)

By | 2013-08-23T10:04:09+00:00 August 23rd, 2013|German History, World History|0 Comments
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The International Brigade(s)

A Brigade section training; note the extreme youth of many of the volunteers / iwm.org.uk

A Brigade section training; note the extreme youth of many of the volunteers / iwm.org.uk

Volunteers from countries foreign to Spain rushed from around the world to aid the republican cause during the Spanish Civil War (1936 – 1938). Contrary to popular literature’s view, the Brigades were not packed full of European and American playwrights, intellectuals and novelists. Most volunteers came from the working classes. Ernest Hemingway came, but as a war correspondent. Stephen Spender and George Orwell came, but were kept as far away from the front as possible, because the propaganda value of their possible capture to the Nationalist forces would have been great. Poets W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood watched from a safe distance, as indeed they did again, this time from California, during the Second World War. (more…)

By | 2013-08-22T11:36:13+00:00 August 22nd, 2013|British History, Dutch History, English History, French History, German History, History of Portugal, Italian History, Philosophy, Russian history, Scandinavian history, Spanish History, US History, World History|0 Comments
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Coup de Shanghai

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In 1927, Jiang Jieshi a.k.a. Chiang Kai-shek (q.v.) tried very hard to eliminate the Chinese Communist Party, which we will call the CCP. This is hard to understand because in his expedition to unite China, he was an ally of the CCP in the United Front. The majority of his conservative supporters were frightened of communist influences in the Nationalist Party, and wanted to get rid of it. (more…)

By | 2013-08-21T18:38:15+00:00 August 21st, 2013|History of China, History of Japan, History of the Far East, World History|0 Comments
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Who was Richard Sorge?

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/ russianspectrum.com

He was a German-born spy who served in the trenches during the Great War. Like many others who survived this hell on earth, he admired Communist efforts in Russia to change the world’s ideologies, and joined the Communist Party, for which he worked as an agent for the Comintern in Shanghai. His cover job was as editor at a German news agency. (more…)

By | 2013-08-21T08:56:14+00:00 August 21st, 2013|A History of North America, Asian History, German History, History of Japan, History of the Far East, World History|0 Comments
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The sailors rise at Kronstadt!

The Red Army crossing the sea ice on the way to Kronstadt / thecommune.co.uk

The Red Army crossing the sea ice on the way to Kronstadt / thecommune.co.uk

Russian sailors at Petrograd (which had been St. Petersburg) were among the first of their countrymen to become revolutionaries, when they set up their own soviet in 1905. They played an important part in the seizure of power by the Bolsheviks in the October Revolution. (more…)

By | 2013-08-20T10:16:54+00:00 August 20th, 2013|Russian history, World History|0 Comments
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Alfred von Tirpitz

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/ globalsecurity.org

German admiral, Secretary of State for the Navy, philosopher, organiser and devoted enemy of Britain, Alfred was born in 1849 and lived to the age of eighty. All his adult life he was a supporter of Weltpolitik, which depended on the acquisition of colonies, and the construction of a navy big enough and strong enough to protect them. Disliking the size of the British Navy, he proposed huge fleets precisely to prevent Britain from blocking Germany’s entry into world markets. (more…)

By | 2013-08-19T09:26:44+00:00 August 19th, 2013|British History, French History, German History, Russian history, World History|0 Comments
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Pope Pius the Twelfth

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Eugenio Pacelli was born in 1876, and was elected Pope in 1939. He came from a familyprominent for its loyal service to the Vatican. He was ordained priest in 1899 at twenty-three. By 1901 he was already entrenched in the Vatican administration. (more…)

By | 2013-08-18T11:59:51+00:00 August 18th, 2013|Church history, German History, History of Rome, Italian History, Jewish History, Philosophy, South American History, Spanish History, World History|0 Comments
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The Thirty Years War

The death in battle of Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden / lookandlearn.com

The death in battle of Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden / lookandlearn.com

The British were involved in this nasty episode, though only on the margins. All wars are horribly wasting, but this one could be taken as the best example. It was about religion, which hardly comes as a surprise. It is amazing that most human conflict since the death of Christ has come about because of differences of opinion and dogma, when Christ taught that all men should love each other. How humans have reacted during the centuries after His death is hardly His fault. (more…)

By | 2013-08-12T09:03:04+00:00 August 12th, 2013|Austrian history, Church history, Czech History, Dutch History, English History, French History, German History, History of Czechoslovakia, History of the Low Countries, Spanish History, World History|0 Comments
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