Socialist Quotes for Sunday Reflection pt 121: Forgotten History, by Kristian Robert Carter

Forgotten History. One.

27th March 1999.

Kosovo. Federal Republic Of Yugoslavia.

The 250th Airborne Missile Defense Unit of the Yugoslavian Army shot down one of the most expensive and technologically advanced pieces  of military hardware then on the planet.

The F117-A Night Hawk stealth bomber of the US air force was shot down by a Pechora Soviet designed missile system built in 1961.

Unbeknownst to American generals the obsolete Soviet air defense was able to track and trace the Night Hawk plane.

It was knocked out of the sky during one of America's many  air strikes upon Yugoslavia during the illegal war against this sovereign European state.

Much like previous American military involvement of recent years the US government and its military was actively supporting and backing Islamist terrorism against a UN member state.

The wreckage of the plane is on display in the military museum in Belgrade. Serbia.


Forgotten History. Two.

8th June 1967.

USS Liberty.

For days into the Six Day War between the Arab States and Israel, the American observation ship the USS Liberty was drifting In international waters. Fourteen miles off of the Sinai peninsula the crew were relaxing and many were sunbathing. The ship was flying the American flag and it's name and naval ID were clearly visible.

America despite being an Israeli ally was not involved in the combat of the Six Day War. The vessel was in neutral territory where the Americans were monitoring a conflict that they had advised Israel not to participate in.

As the Liberty was drifting at five knots, three Israeli observation and scouting planes flew overhead. The planes made at least a dozen circles of the boat. Flying so low the American sailors and crew waved in greeting at the Israeli pilots who were clearly visible in their cockpits.

Shortly after the scout planes departed a group of Israeli fighter jets appeared and shockingly opened fire upon the USS Liberty. The boat received direct hits from missile, bomb and machine guns. Many sailors were killed in this first wave of attack.

The Liberty was only armed with light weaponry that was useless against the jet fighters. As the communications squad attempted to call for help they found all of their signals were blocked. Even those top secret communication channels that were used for direct contact with the US government.

As the battered vessel went into emergency shut down. Three Israeli torpedo boats engaged the vessel. Crippling damage was done to the Liberty and the decision was made to abandon ship.

As the crew began to abandon the Liberty the torpedo boats opened fire on the lifeboats and those who were attempting to flee the stricken vessel. This is an action that is classed as q war crime under the rules of war.

The Liberty managed to let off an SOS signal that was intercepted by a US aircraft carrier who scrambled fighter jets to aid the ailing boat.

At first US intelligence was led to believe that the Liberty had been attacked by the pro Soviet Egyptian military. When radar picked up that the jets had originated from Haifa in Israel they suddenly were ordered to return back to the aircraft carrier and not to help the Liberty or engage it's attackers in combat.

McNamara is on record as saying -

" Those are Israeli jets. Make damn sure our planes turn around and return to base "

With the SOS signal ignored and the American planes ordered to return to base the crew was left for 16 hours in liferafts. Many of them severely injured.

With the vessel aflame the Israelis withdrew leaving the crew to fend for themselves in the sea.

When rescue vessels arrived the casualties were  -

34 dead.

171 injured.

The Liberty was badly damaged and later investigation showed it had been hit over 3800 times by hostile fire.

Later investigations by US and Israeli governments put the incident down to mistaken identity and ' friendly fire '.

US Secretary of state Dean Rusk made the following blistering statement about the subsequent investigation -

" I was never satisfied with the Israeli explanation. Their sustained attack to disable and sink Liberty precluded an assault by accident or some trigger-happy local commander. Through diplomatic channels we refused to accept their explanations. I didn't believe them then, and I don't believe them to this day. The attack was outrageous. "

It is widely believed that Israel launched the attack in order to blame Egypt and draw the American government into the Six Day War. The communication blaming Egypt for the attack is believed to have originated from Mossad and the Israeli military.

The attack lasted two hours and during this period no American support was sent to the aid of the Liberty.

This marks the only time the American state has not gone to the aid of their fellow servicemen in distress.

It also was the highest naval losses ( at the time ) since the second world war.

Despite apologising for the ' mistake ' no body has ever been held to account and despite a pittance payment of damages paid to the families of the dead, many American survivors of this incident still refuse to let the case be put into the mist of time and forgotten about.


Forgotten History. Three.

Thatchers Terrorist Friends.

1980 - 1990.

Thatcher the iron lady that never negotiated with terrorists. A complete myth that the Tories seem to have forgotten about. The recent witch hunt against Jeremy Corbyn by the Conservative Party shows just how duplicitous with the truth the Tories actually are.

Thatcher had a long history of not just meeting Terrorist leaders but using UK taxpayers money to bankroll and arm them.

When the Afghan communists seized power In 1979 the Marxist government began a series of reforms in order to lift the Afghan population out of squalor and backwardness. Nurses and teachers were sent into isolated communities in order to vaccinate children and educate youngsters. The illiteracy rate among Afghan children was almost 90% and females were often denied education altogether. Land reform was bought in to break the tribal chieftains grip upon power.

These initiatives angered the Conservative clerics and chieftains who launched a guerrilla war against the Communist Government in Kabul. This uprising was supported by conservative and Islamist hardliners in Pakistan and the Gulf states.

Appealing to the Soviets for aid the USSR sent troops to help the Afghan government. This was not an invasion as mooted by the West but a direct appeal by the legitimate leadership of Afghanistan for help. The Soviets were invited in.

Thatcher realising that she could continue her crusade against communism went to Pakistan where she addressed the Islamists and famously called them " Freedom fighters struggling for democracy ".

The last thing on the minds of the assembled  throng was any kind of democracy. Thatcher knew this but saw them as friends in the war against Moscow.

Thatcher met many of these Islamist terrorists between 1981 - 1986. Pictured below is her shaking hands with Abdul Haj a terrorist that boasted of the massacre of students and children in bomb attacks on schools. She also met others including Gulbuddin Hekmatyar who she described as a " Fighter for Freedom " despite his love of torturing women by dousing their faces in acid.

It is unknown just how much cash the UK state channelled to the Islamist Mujahadeen who later would become Al Qeada. Vast amounts of military aid including arms and training was provided to them.

Most of the senior commanders of Al Qeada were trained and financed by the UK state on direct orders of Thatcher. Including Osama Bin Laden ( see photos below ).

Thatchers new friends were more interested at first in murdering the women nurses and the teachers who had been sent to alleviate illiteracy and poverty than they were killing Soviet soldiers.

Not only did Thatcher enjoy the company of Islamist terror groups she also enjoyed mixing with Zionist terrorists including Begin whose bomb killed almost thirty British soldiers and civilians at the David Hotel in Jerusalem.

Another example of the woman's nauseating double standards and rank hypocrisy is the Tories support of the Polish Trade Union Solidarity which was protesting against the then Communist Government in Poland. Thatcher authorised cash and other help to this union so that it could protest and organise against the Polish state. This was being done as she used the full force of the British state to smash the miners, attack workers rights and crush the power of the UK union movement. Thatcher was happy to throw our workers to the lions whilst she used tax payers money to bankroll unions in nations that were in struggle against politics she despised.

Iron Lady?

Hardly.

More like a tin metal harlot with morals resembling that of a corroded lump of scrap metal.


Forgotten History. Four.

Wired Fascists.

From 1919 to 1938 Germany went through a golden age of pharmaceutical production. By the year 1926 the German state was the biggest producer of diamorphine ( medical morphine ) on the planet. It's Heroin was the best in the world for quality and quantity, 41% of the total world production of synthesized Morphine originated in Germany. This amounted to a staggering 90,620 kg. A colossal amount. The majority produced by the pharmaceutical giant Merck.

The Nazi government also produced massive quantities of cocaine based medicines and methamphetamine. There was even a specialist government agency who were charged with implementing state policy and targets for the production of opiates and stimulants. This group were called Fachgruppe Opium und Cocain.

Dr Fritz Hauschild developed Benezedrine for the IG Farben company and it was trialled on a number of athletes in the 1936 Munich Olympics Games. Originally it was developed as a bronchial dialator for asthma sufferers. However interest in its fatigue busting properties was high and a very pure methamphetamine was synthesized and released onto the German market under the brand name Pervitin.

Pervitin was a huge success with the German public and was used by large swathes of society for a tonic, weight loss and fitness enhancer.

During wartime Pervitin had another efficient use as a stimulant that boosted aggression and removed fatigue. Nicknamed Stuka Pills they were given to dive bomber pilots to increase alertness and prevent them from blacking out from G force pressure whilst dive bombing.

The peak period of amphetamine use was during the blitz when the Wehrmacht issued 35 million 3mg tablets to its servicemen in three months.

Rumours are that Hitler was an amphetamine user, which wouldn't be surprising as vast swathes of the German population used the medicine.

On another note. North Korea manufactured it's own copy of Perivitin and it is believed to have been issued to industrial and agricultural workers during the famine. This was done in order to keep the hungry workforce motivated and productive.


Forgotten History. Five.

Operation Bagration.

June 23 1944 - 19 August 1944

Operation Bagration is not widely known or talked about in the West. It has become a part of military history that is criminally overlooked. The fact that the worst defeat in German military history is not as widely known as more famous battles such as Stalingrad, Normandy and the Desert Campaign is unusual.

Operation Bagration was the Wehrmacht largest loss of life, equipment and armour of the second world war. It was a hammer blow that the Nazi forces would never recover from. Huge numbers of expierenced troops, elite units, generals and military specialists were killed in the relatively short but very bloody campaign by the Soviet Red Army.

Germany had occupied Soviet Belorussia ( now Belarus ) and established Army Group Centre in the capital city of Minsk and the surrounding areas. German forces comprised of almost one million troops and personnel, two airforces with one thousand planes and close to five thousand tanks and artillery pieces. The entire Soviet city of Minsk was declared a fortified zone and heavily defended by dug in personal.

During the Nazi occupation of Belorussia the Wehrmacht forces had set about the systematic extermination of entire towns, villages and cities. Millions of Belorussian citizens were murdered by the occupiers including a literally the entire Jewish population  of the Soviet Republic. The occupiers harsh cruelty and mass murder resulted in large amounts of the countries citizens becoming Partisans who harassed and harried the occupying forces with a constant campaign of guerilla warfare.

As a reprisal for the partisan attacks it is believed the Germans murdered up to a million people. This brutality didn't dissuade the rebels though but increased the numbers as they flocked to the partisans to wage war against the German forces.

Using a mix of deception, Partisan sabotage and fast paced military strikes the Soviet Forces launched a multi pronged counter attack entitled Operation Bagration also known as The Minsk Offensive.

Partisan guerilla groups destroyed hundreds of radio transmitters which prevented the German units from communicating and caused mass confusion amongst the troops.

At the same time Soviet tank divisions smashed through the fortified defenses of Minsk allowing infantry to engage with the occupiers in close combat.

Bagration was the Soviets largest mobilisation of forces and armour, the strength of Soviet manpower is believed to be 2.3 million troops.

On July 3rd Minsk was liberated and the Red Army was able to press on to liberate vast swathes of Soviet soil and press on towards Poland.

Total Wehrmacht losses were 28 divisions out of 34, in Stalingrad Germany lost only 17 divisions of troops. Almost half a million Nazi troops were killed and 160,000 were captured. The upper echelons of the Wehrmacht army were decimated and at least a quarter of total German military capability was lost in Operation Bagration.

Soviet losses were exceedingly high and total dead is now believed to stand at quarter of a million.

Hitler's forces were on the back footing from this moment on and as the allied forces pushed through Normandy the second front that Josef Stalin had called for in the years preceding the war was suddenly in full fruition.

Operation Bagration was one of the decisive strikes to the Axis Forces and is a shining example of military planning and tactical operation.

Perhaps it doesn't fit in with the Western European and American narrative on who won the conflict but the simple fact is that the Soviets broke a major bone in the Nazi frame and with the other offensives in operation that frame began to splinter and disintegrate rapidly.

War historian Henrik Lunde -

" Operation Bagration, the largest operation of World War II, has never been adequately acknowledged in the West to the same extent as a number of smaller campaigns. A few very recent books may be an indication that its importance is finally beginning to be recognized.

While it dwarfed all other operations, it lacked a dramatic and popular focal point like Normandy, Stalingrad, or Leningrad––which have been written about more extensively. It took place at a time when the Western Allies were still engaged in Operation Overlord––the fighting in Normandy’s hedgerow country inland from the beaches––the landings in southern France, the dash across France, and the ongoing struggle in Italy. These have received the preponderance of attention while the near destruction of three German army groups on the Eastern Front has been relegated to a few paragraphs or pages in the more popular accounts of the war in the East. But Bagration was too large and important to ignore or minimize."