(An artificial island in the middle of the Tokyo Bay)"No Prophet is Accepted in His Own Country"
(History vs. Hitler)
Was Napoleon destined to invade the Russian Empire toward Moscow in 1812?
But why did Hitler decide to invade the Soviet Union toward Moscow in 1941?
In September 1939, Hitler ordered the German Army to invade Poland so as to share the country with the USSR with whom Germany had concluded the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact in August 1939.
England and France had a treaty with Poland, so that the two powers declared war against Germany.
Then, Hitler defeated the French Army to occupy half of France in haste in 1940. Hitler also drove the English Army out of the continent from Dunkirk and started air raids on Great Britain only to abandon the attacks in less than a year, namely in May 1941.
In June 1941, Hitler ordered the German Army to invade the Soviet Union, mobilizing three million troops, 3,600 tanks, and 4,400 air crafts.
In December 1941, it turned out to be apparent that Hitler failed in this greatest military operation since the era of Napoleon.
Now, what do you think of this sequence of bloody incidents between 1939 and 1941?
Poland was poor; England and France were poorer; and Germany was rather crazy.
But, who was on the opposite side of the whole situation?
Yes, the Soviet Union and Stalin. They drove Germany and Hitler crazy from a war to another and to the fatal one.
But, there is a report with a proof that Stalin was about to launch invasion of Germany but a month later than the actual date of the attacks from Hitler's side.
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Icebreaker
by Viktor Suvorov (Author)
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Sound scholarship answers why Hitler attacked the USSR, 25 May 1999
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This review is from: Icebreaker (Paperback)
I've always liked Suvorov's books but I must say that Icebreaker is the book that most intrigued me. Suvorov's sound scholarship in this book and its sequels help answer one of the greatest question of WWII, why did Hitler attack the USSR?
Without shrinking into Nazi apologism and revisionism, Suvorov pieces together an answer to this question, quite simply, Hitler's attack on the USSR was a preemptive one. Suvorov shows the full power of the Soviet war machine, its amazing offensive capability (BT-7 tanks - designed for warfare in Western Europe, not for defensive warfare, massive paratroop corps - elite units trained only in attack, not in defense, powerful air armadas - designed for devastating preemptive attacks on enemy airfields) and then explains why this juggernaut was destroyed with such ease by the Wehrmacht.
Discussing the USSR's preparations for offensive warfare, Suvorov shows that perhaps only a few weeks or days seperated Europe from the a Red Blitzkrieg.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Icebreaker-Viktor-Suvorov/dp/0955274400
(http://www.somonken.jp/STN_News_main/book_icebreaker.htm)
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Strangely, it is said that Stalin laughed off an intelligence report that Hitler had just set a date for starting invasion of Russia.
But, it is also said that Hitler once confessed that he had decided to invade Russia when he had been informed of huge military buildup of the USSR, since it had been apparent that Stalin would invade Germany sooner or later.
The Nazi movement killed six million Judaists in and around Germany until the end of WWII.
The Soviet Communist Party killed two million non-Marxist Russians and Christian Russians in 1930's (or more than 10 million in some studies).
In general, if an evil leader was doing such atrocity inside his own nation, he could not carry out or even would not like to carry out any great war against a foreign power. In this sense, Napoleon and Hitler are the two totally different military leaders in terms of war with Russians.
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An answer to an enigma in a historic incident is usually found in the history itself. But, a personality aspect is often keenly discussed.
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Hitler, Lenin, and Stalin
A Study in Personality's Impact on History
[Excerpted from a draft of a book written with Renato Alarcon and Edward Foulks on Personality Disorders and Culture]
One of the features of Antisocial Personality Disorder is a brutally utilitarian logical system; Stalin's alliance with Hitler allowed him to seize the Baltics and the eastern half of Poland in September, 1939, giving him a geographical buffer against any possible attack from the West as well as direct control over millions of Eastern Europeans.
Yet his paranoia was so deep following the 1941 invasion that for several days he literally did not believe the German attack was taking place (Birt, 1993; Johnson, 1992; Medvedev, 1971).
Rancour-Laferriere (1988) posits that perhaps Stalin was identifying with the aggressor, in this case, Hitler, whom he recognized as a threat since the early 1930s, although as has been demonstrated, Hitler probably copied far more from Stalin than vice versa.
http://www.vakkur.com/hx/hit_len_stal.html
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No matter which Hitler's main target was, England or the Soviet Union, far beyond Hitler's individual decision making ability, the power of the history forced Hitler to venture into war with the Soviet Union, since Stalin was beefing up military power in parallel with German military expansion to the extent enough to launch preemptive attacks on, and invasion of, Germany.
The truth is, however, that Hitler just wanted to act like Holy Roman Emperor. Every enemy except the Pope could be his target...
Yet, for Stalin, the Pope was his enemy.
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Has anybody heard ever Jesus Christ mentioning Hitler and Stalin?
If not, their cases might be still pending.
The Pope should officially close the cases per se after hearing Jesus Christ mentioning Hitler.
As a precautionary measure, no one shall respect Hitler and Stalin.
(Qui correspond à qui? S'il n'est pas Hitler à Staline...though you must have many in your own country...
http://www.countrymidikaraoke.com/duocentury/On%20trouve%20l%27amour%202%20(Anne%20Renee).kar.mid
Source: http://www.countrymidikaraoke.com/duocentury/abc.htm)
Luk 4:21 And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.
Luk 4:22 And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph's son?
Luk 4:23 And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country.
Luk 4:24 And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.