I think that, along side the post-WW1 treatment of Germany and going a bit too far in some places in post WW2 Germany*, the West working with the USSR in WW2** and giving over Eastern Europe to them were our greatest mistakes. They were certainly our most stupid or naive ones.1947 - in the same year,soviets faked elections in Poland,and germans were no longer issue.
If USA cared,they would intervene.They have A bombs,Sralin have not.
What I took from that film are the parallels to today, where we have people attempting to slice us up into competing groups based on irrelevant factors in the hopes of riding the chaos and such into power.
That's been a theme throughout history: "Divide and conquer" and "Defeat in detail".What I took from that film are the parallels to today, where we have people attempting to slice us up into competing groups based on irrelevant factors in the hopes of riding the chaos and such into power.
That was also made while the Army was still segregated. It was probably made to prepare for de-segregation."but he met this girl at the bar, and she looked kind of cute... after a couple of drinks."
Nice qualifier.
It's interesting that, in 1947, they show a black kid playing base ball with white kids, and a black guy in a crowd of white people like that. Of course, this is probably supposed to be set in New England, so not exactly the Deep South, but there were still a lot of extant prejudices at the time. Not to mention, the foreign older man has aGermanHungarian accent only a few years after the war.
If the government was making films about combating prejudice in order to foil Communism that early, then that implies that the Soviet plans to use race and other identitarian politics to break apart the US started a lot earlier than most people recognize. Or, the US saw them using it in Eastern Europe to pacify their conquests and predicted that they would try to use it on the West as well.
Not terribly accurate in regards to the order or rationale of NSDAP actions, or those of the other factions in the country. But then again, it is actual propaganda... Accuracy was never the point.
Google says this is old slang for a Japanese person. Which would make sense, but then again, slang rarely makes sense, so I am suspicious of it.
The only traceable ancestors I have which were not born in the US were a pair of siblings who fled Japan in the 1850s. I have no traceable ancestors who aren't their descendants.Google says this is old slang for a Japanese person. Which would make sense, but then again, slang rarely makes sense, so I am suspicious of it.
Man, that sounds like a lot of incest.The only traceable ancestors I have which were not born in the US were a pair of siblings who fled Japan in the 1850s. I have no traceable ancestors who aren't their descendants.
My siblings and I are more inbred than an Ancient Egyptian Pharoah. Our children all have one mixed-race parent. Racisim sucks.Man, that sounds like a lot of incest.The family vine started with a pair of siblings over 170 years ago.
I'm dying over here. Seriously, phrasing dude.
More seriously though, your ancestor was an NCO? I doubt he would have been allowed to be an officer at the time, and even if he was he wouldn't have likely been given the power to command the number of troops an officer would have been expected to, even if they were French.