I wasn't talking about celebs. I was talking solely about Simmons.
Celebs line up on both sides of politics, Eastwood most notably.
The Trumps seem to be trying to fire celebs for laughing at them - so PC, after all!!!
Bartelby: Your "Connection to the Stars!"
What a dumb comment from Gene Simmons.
It would be laughable if it weren't so tragic. So much ignorance.
Gene Simmons should thank the Russians, they are mostly responsible for the nazis losing the war. 20 millions out of the 60 millions deaths during WW2 were Russian deaths. The number of American casualties in comparison is peanuts.
Also the russians were the first to liberate concentration/extermination camps (already in July 1944) and the biggest extermination camp of all, Auschwitz (responsible for 1 million jewish deaths out of 6 millions jews exterminated), was liberated in January 1945 by the russians, not by americans. Hitler and Goebbels both committed suicide in their bunker in Berlin when the russians were invading Berlin (not the americans).
Sure Americans participated in the WWII effort, but to claim they are somehow solely responsible for defeating n_azi Germany is a complete joke.
Oh, and the Americans certainly didn't go to war to be good Samaritans. They went, because Japan declared war on them and shortly after Germany also declared war on them. Of note also that US government and military officials knew about german extermination camps in 1942 already thanks to reports and photographic evidence of crematoriums from the polish resistance, but didn't do anything about it (like bombing the railways leading to the camps as the polish resistance was hoping).
I guess that in the end, Americans somehow like to think they are the unique saviors of the world.
It is not about attacking you. Is is about control of the Eurasian continent and having governments in that part of the world aligned with US interests. Whoever controls the Eurasian continent controls the world.
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Ah yes, Russia: the same champs who gave us Soviet Jewry.
REALITY:
Geo. Patton had been an outspoken critic of Stalin and a vocal proponent of liberating Berlin and the German people from certain communist aggression which (politically) triggered his sudden removal from the battlefield. In the aftermath of war, the Western powers sought to sideline the mercurial Patton and his incendiary views.
But Patton despised the politically driven circus and the media minions that carried out their dirty work. Still, he continued to speak out against the Russians as an American witness to their brutality during and after the war. As Stalin devoured Eastern Europe, Patton remarked,
“I have no particular desire to understand them except to ascertain how much lead or iron it takes to kill them… …the Russian has no regard for human life and they are all out sons-of-bitches, barbarians, and chronic drunks.”
In early May 1945, as the Allies shut down the Na
zi war machine, Patton stood with his massive 3rd Army on the outskirts of Prague in a potential face off with the Red Army. He pleaded for General Eisenhower’s green light to advance and capture the city for the Allies, which also would have meant containment of the Russians. British Prime Minister Churchill also thought the move a crucial and beneficial one for post-war Europe and insisted upon it, but to no avail. Eisenhower denied Patton’s request, and the Russians took the region, which would pay dearly for years to come. Earlier that year, at the February conference in Yalta, President Roosevelt, with Churchill at his side, extended the hand of friendship to “Uncle Joe” Stalin and signed his Faustian pact. In so doing, the destiny of millions was reduced to mass starvation, blood revenge, and distant gulags. At the time, Patton understood the tragedy of this event and wrote, “
We promised the Europeans freedom. It would be worse than dishonorable not to see that they have it. This might mean war with the Russians, but what of it?”
Berlin also was given to Stalin’s Army as red meat to feed the dictator’s appetite for killing Germans. To some, including Patton, this was an unnecessary and devastating concession. In late April 1945, Patton claimed he could take Berlin in just “two days,” an assessment shared by the commander of the 9th Army, General William H. Simpson. As with Prague, Patton’s request to secure Berlin was denied. Sadly, after Patton finally reached the ravaged city, he wrote his wife on July 21, 1945,
" for the first week after they took it (Berlin), all women who ran were shot and those who did not were *****. I could have taken it (instead of the Soviets) had I been allowed."
Conventional wisdom holds that Eisenhower’s choice not to capture the eastern capital cities was sober decision-making or that he was bound by the Yalta agreements, though he originally planned for Berlin and Prague. Many also noted that the Russians promised to join the fight in the Pacific war, though the Russians never fulfilled that promise. Yet, the “what ifs” of history echo in Patton’s words:
"The American Army as it now exists could beat the Russians with the greatest of ease, because, while the Russians have good infantry, they are lacking in artillery, air, tanks, and in the knowledge of the use of the combined arms, whereas we excel in all three of these.”
Moreover, Patton’s notion of meeting the enemy “now, rather than later” in retrospect seems not the mere wiles of a warmonger unable to embrace peacetime, but rather a worthy and prudent strategy of a seasoned tactician, even if a gamble. Stalin’s own records prove that he told his leaders to “play down” the Berlin invasion, aware that it was Europe’s crown jewel. Eisenhower, for all his discernment and skill at war management, did not see the Russians coming as did Patton and Churchill, who both recognized the wisdom of stopping Stalin in his tracks and perhaps offering Eastern Europe a chance at liberation.
