— Why did you provoke the fight?
— I did not expect it to happen!
— Did you trade without a license?
— No. I gave beer free. There are many witnesses.
— Are you crazy?
— No, no! I am a good worker, a member of an union, have a wonderful family.
— Ok, Ivan. We let you go. Only tell us why did you spent your savings to give people free beer?
— You know, I am not a young man. I wanted to see how everything will be after the victory of communism!
Painting by JF
There are people in America today that are not proud of their country.
These people don’t know history or prefer to forget it.The post below reminds how America saved the world from the Nazi Germany.
During my lifetime America helped many countries to recover after the WW2, saved or freed many countries from Communism, helped and continues to help many countries to develop their economies, to fight diseases.
I was shocked today to find out that students of UCLA voted to ban the American flag in the student area.
“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
On June 22, 1941 without declaration of war Germany invaded the Soviet Union. At that time I was 7 years old.
In 73 years I wrote about that day and the Great Patriotic War in the post MY MOTHER’S BIRTHDAY.
Odessa was occupied during the war and my mother and I were fortunate to reach Sverdlovsk in the Ural Mountains and to rent a small room there. My mother was a nurse in a military hospital and she was able to come to our room only on Sundays for several hours
All other days I stayed in the room reading everything I could find. Our landlords, two mighty sisters about 65 years old, helped me daily to do the most important thing: to get my food ration.
During winter the situation in the city was especially bad. Food rations were tiny and there was impossible to get berries or…
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Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.
Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack.
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.
There is no substitute for victory.
The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.
Where there is unity there is always victory.
On June 22, 1941 without declaration of war Germany invaded the Soviet Union. At that time I was 7 years old.
In 73 years I wrote about that day and the Great Patriotic War in the post MY MOTHER’S BIRTHDAY.
Odessa was occupied during the war and my mother and I were fortunate to reach Sverdlovsk in the Ural Mountains and to rent a small room there. My mother was a nurse in a military hospital and she was able to come to our room only on Sundays for several hours
All other days I stayed in the room reading everything I could find. Our landlords, two mighty sisters about 65 years old, helped me daily to do the most important thing: to get my food ration.
During winter the situation in the city was especially bad. Food rations were tiny and there was impossible to get berries or mushrooms or fishes in the forests. People were starving and some tried to steal your food on the way from a food distribution center. However, I was safe, as both sisters had heavy sticks in their hands and used them effectively without hesitation.
One day we found out that the city received some food from America. Our rations increased. I still remember that we got containers with hot soup in it. One of my protectors gave me a spoon and said: “Eat it right here! I know how hungry you are!”
The soup was delicious. A woman who worked at the center explained that it was a turtle soup.
Several months later we received a big can with an egg powder (it was part of the monthly ration). It was also from America. On Sunday my mother made an omelette from it. It was incredible beautiful and tasteful. We ate it very slowly enjoying every bite.
I asked my Mom where America was and she showed me on a map. Then I asked: “Mom, why this country that is so far away, helps us?”
My mother answered: “America is a mighty and rich country! Today it helps our country and other countries to fight terrible enemy by providing military equipment, materials and food. We hope very much that soon it will fight Nazis together with us and we’ll win the war together!”
I was proud of America in 1941 and I love it since 1941!
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Several extracts from Wikipedia:
“The Lend-Lease policy, formally titled An Act to Further Promote the Defense of the United States, (Pub.L. 77–11, H.R. 1776, 55 Stat. 3034, enacted March 11, 1941)[1] was a program under which the United States supplied Great Britain, Free France, the Republic of China and later the USSR and other Allied nations with materiel between 1941 and August 1945…
Joseph Stalin, during the Tehran Conference in 1943, acknowledged publicly the. importance of American efforts: “Without American production the United Nations [the Allies] could never have won the war.”
On December 11, 1941, the United States Congress declared war upon Germany, in response to that nation’s declaration of war following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and only hours after Germany declared war on the United States.”
