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Om jag inte minns fel står det även i Bibeln att under The Last Days – Den yttersta tiden – florerar rykten om krig och även utan Bibeln ska man vara medveten om att det alltid sprids rykten, och i dessa videobloggartider är det lätt. Men om detta är sant har vi ww3 på halsen.

Nu spelar det väl egentligen ingen roll om USA har hjälpt till handfast, de vräker in vapen och pengar, och ryssarna har sagt att om det fortsätter attackearar man västländer som stöttar nazisterna, och med kärnvapen.

Det hotet ser jag främst som ett meddelande att det kommer absolut inte bli några markstrider. Man tänker inte låta sig utnyttjas av nazisters önskan att få förfina rasen i sitt hemland.

Trots det tar jag hotet på allvar, så långt att de har faktiskt inget som helst val därför att de får en invasion, som ett brev på posten, på rysk mark och förra gången kostade det 13 600 000 soldater, sex miljoner civila och en miljon judars liv.

För-fattaren Snyder har helt rätt; ww1+2+3 är samma krig, bara pauser emellan, men får vi tro energifolk lugnar det ner sig i slutet av maj, och om jag minns rätt tar Bibeln upp även det. Alla vrålar att det är fred. Men det är det inte alls.

Vi bör också notera att för-fattare Snyder har släppt ut sin bok ”Bloodlands” (Den blodiga jorden) som ljusbok gratis, se nedan.

Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens—and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was finally defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and nearly as many other Europeans. At war’s end, both the German and the Soviet killing sites fell behind the iron curtain, leaving the history of mass killing in darkness.

Bloodlands is a new kind of European history, presenting the mass murders committed by the Nazi and Stalinist regimes as two aspects of a single history, in the time and place where they occurred: between Germany and Russia, when Hitler and Stalin both held power. Assiduously researched, deeply humane, and utterly definitive, Bloodlands will be required reading for anyone seeking to understand the central tragedy of modern history.

If there is an explanation for the political killing perpetrated in eastern Europe in the 1930s and 1940s, historian Snyder roots it in agriculture. Stalin wanted to collectivize farmers; Hitler wanted to eliminate them so Germans could colonize the land. The dictators wielded frightening power to advance such fantasies toward reality, and the despots toted up about 14 million corpses between them, so stupefying a figure that Snyder sets himself three goals here: to break down the number into the various actions of murder that comprise it, from liquidation of the kulaks to the final solution; to restore humanity to the victims via surviving testimony to their fates; and to deny Hitler and Stalin any historical justification for their policies, which at the time had legions of supporters and have some even today. Such scope may render Snyder’s project too imposing to casual readers, but it would engage those exposed to the period’s chronology and major interpretive issues, such as the extent to which the Nazi and Soviet systems may be compared. Solid and judicious scholarship for large WWII collections.