great moments in irony
Watching The Alyona Show on Russia Today, Russia's English language news service.
A guest called Jacques Pauwels told the interviewer: "The British and Americans bombed Cologne into ashes during World War Two when there was absolutely no military justification for doing so. The reason they did this was to show Russia how powerful their airforce was."
Ah yes.
That old gag.
There's been a lot of talk like this on Russia Today lately.
The ancient and soulful Russian people are being mercilessly propagandised by President Putin for a new war with the free world.
Phrases such as "the era of Soviet greatness" are slipped into news programmes with a straight face.
It all amounts to a most unfortunate historical wrong turn.
Unfortunate for all of us.
But back to The Alyona Show twit.
Here is the news.
The reason Bomber Harris, the British head of Bomber Command, decided to level the centre of Cologne was two fold.
Firstly by levelling German cities, the Nazis' capacity to function administratively and the Nazi capacity to motivate their subject populace to fight on were seriously impeded.
Cities are where it's at.
If Nazis were able to run cities without bombs falling on them, then it would be reasonable for German people to assume, that maybe the Nazis were not doing so badly in this war.
Secondly the British wished to let the Germans know that from now on any attempt to inflict another war on the world would have serious consequences for everyone in Germany.
More precisely, the British were contemplating the ruins of their own cities and had made the decision that, no, this time the Germans were not entitled to a get out of consequences free card.
There was a feeling that the Germans had certainly earned the chance to contemplate a few ruins of their own.
It can't be all one way.
As President Bush once said to Osama.
Of course there were some militarily unnecessary excesses during World War Two on the Allied Side.
I mean atrocities.
I mean violations of humanity with absolutely no shadow of a possible justification.
Namely when the Russian army entered defeated Berlin and began systematically raping and exterminating the populace.
Looking forward to hearing about that one on The Alyona Show.
A guest called Jacques Pauwels told the interviewer: "The British and Americans bombed Cologne into ashes during World War Two when there was absolutely no military justification for doing so. The reason they did this was to show Russia how powerful their airforce was."
Ah yes.
That old gag.
There's been a lot of talk like this on Russia Today lately.
The ancient and soulful Russian people are being mercilessly propagandised by President Putin for a new war with the free world.
Phrases such as "the era of Soviet greatness" are slipped into news programmes with a straight face.
It all amounts to a most unfortunate historical wrong turn.
Unfortunate for all of us.
But back to The Alyona Show twit.
Here is the news.
The reason Bomber Harris, the British head of Bomber Command, decided to level the centre of Cologne was two fold.
Firstly by levelling German cities, the Nazis' capacity to function administratively and the Nazi capacity to motivate their subject populace to fight on were seriously impeded.
Cities are where it's at.
If Nazis were able to run cities without bombs falling on them, then it would be reasonable for German people to assume, that maybe the Nazis were not doing so badly in this war.
Secondly the British wished to let the Germans know that from now on any attempt to inflict another war on the world would have serious consequences for everyone in Germany.
More precisely, the British were contemplating the ruins of their own cities and had made the decision that, no, this time the Germans were not entitled to a get out of consequences free card.
There was a feeling that the Germans had certainly earned the chance to contemplate a few ruins of their own.
It can't be all one way.
As President Bush once said to Osama.
Of course there were some militarily unnecessary excesses during World War Two on the Allied Side.
I mean atrocities.
I mean violations of humanity with absolutely no shadow of a possible justification.
Namely when the Russian army entered defeated Berlin and began systematically raping and exterminating the populace.
Looking forward to hearing about that one on The Alyona Show.
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