In the photo, French Prime Minister Edouard Daladier shakes hands with Benito Mussolini, with German Chancellor Adolf Hitler and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in the background. At the same time , throughout 1938, right-wing and nationalist deputies in France demanded a ban on the French Communist Party. And more than 400 newspapers, picking up on the theses of Mein Kampf, spoke of communists as conductors of foreign influence in the country and a conspiracy of world Jewry.

British intelligence MI6 worked with the US CIA to commit this atrocity. Mohammad Mossadegh was a prominent figure in Iran’s secular democracy and resistance to colonialism. He nationalized the oil industry and implemented radical measures like land reform, social security and wealth redistribution. His popular policies directly threatened Western interests, and the response of the US and British intelligence to Mossadegh in “Operation Ajax” is a manual that has been repeated against anti-colonial and anti-imperialist leaders of the Global South many times since.     

Not a new revelation, but the article pulls from good sources and it's nice to see this myth repudiated in a mainstream outlet.

[Article with the original image source and more explanation about it](https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2022/08/forget-they-are-an-animal)

https://www.foreignexchanges.news/p/a-future-of-walls-or-liberation

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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2667284 > Shocking news, I know, but a good historical overview

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> The Bengal famine of 1943 killed more than three million people in eastern India. It was one of the worst losses of civilian life on the Allied side in World War Two. > > There is no memorial, museum, or even a plaque, anywhere in the world to the people who died. However, a few survivors remain, and one man is determined to gather their stories before it is too late. > > 'Hunger stalked us' > > "Many people sold their boys and girls for a little rice. Many wives and young women ran off, hand-in-hand with men they knew or didn't know." > > Bijoykrishna Tripathi is describing the desperate measures people took to find food during the Bengal famine. > > He is not sure of his exact age, but his voter card says he is 112. Bijoykrishna is one of the last people to remember the disaster. > > He talks faintly and slowly about growing up in Midnapore, a district in Bengal. Rice was the staple food, and he remembers its price rising "by leaps and bounds" in the summer of 1942. read more: https://www.lemkininstitute.com/single-post/bengal-famine-tracking-down-the-last-survivors-of-ww2-s-forgotten-tragedy

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I'm from the global South, so I don't know minute details in the western history that well. Yes, this post should have gone under a political community, but since I'm interested in the history, I believe that this is the right place to post them. I am interested in this part of the article: >According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, this town’s population was 80 percent Jewish at the start of the twentieth century. In contrast, at the start of World War II, only 26 percent of the town was Jewish, after Jews fled or were imprisoned and killed in gulags. Devastatingly, the remainder of the Jewish population was killed in one mass slaughter by the Nazis in 1942. However, from [this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Russia) Wikipedia page: >...in the 1930s the Jews were underrepresented in the Gulag population Not just that, but according to [this page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogroms_during_the_Russian_Civil_War) mentions how most of the pogroms were carried out by the ASFR army and UNA, although the Green and Red army were also complicit to some extent. Anything else I should be looking out for?

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PBS Documentary Titled - Egalite for All: Toussaint Louverture & The Haitian Revolution

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Avi Shlaim is an eminent historian. He is an Emeritus Professor of International Relations at Oxford University and the author of The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World (2014) and Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations (2009). Professor Shlaim is a dual Israeli British citizen who lived in the country as a child. His family originated from Iraq and migrated to the newly founded state in 1950.

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/3415556 > Pictured: The Zionist in question. > > Quoting Faris Yahya’s [*Zionist relations with Nazi Germany*](https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=965D0938C8441DE06561BCB5D5857C08), pages 57–8: > > >The agreements between the Zionist movement and [the Third Reich] were a well‐kept secret for many years. But once the scandal known as the Kastner case broke in 1953, the details began to come to light gradually. > > > >The first secret agreement to be fully revealed was the one reached between Dr. Rudolf Kastner of the Jewish Agency Rescue Committee in Budapest and Colonel Adolf Eichmann (who had signed the 1938 emigration agreement with Moshe Bar‐Gilad), the official responsible for settling the “Jewish question” in Hungary, in 1944. The Kastner–Eichmann agreement concerned the fate of some 800,000 Jews in Hungary. > > > >“The great bulk of Hungary’s Jews were without organisation. They belonged neither to Zionism nor the Jewish Agency. They belonged only to Hungary, its homes, streets, workshops, sports fields, cafés. Who could speak for these assimilated Jews, these Jews without chairmen? […] The organised Jews took over the entire rescue work for the whole 800,000 doomed.”^75^ > > > >The organised Jews were the Zionists, who set up the Jewish Agency Rescue Committee. Kastner and the other officials of this Committee, like Ginsberg and Bar‐Gilad, were officially recognised by the [Third Reich] as negotiators and representatives of the Zionist movement. > > > >The truth about the activities of this so‐called “Rescue Committee” did not begin to come out until [a Jewish] writer named Malchiel Greenwald publicly denounced Kastner as a collaborator with [Fascism], maintaining that “Kastner’s deeds in Budapest cost us the lives of hundreds of thousands of Jews.”^76^ **Greenwald was sued for libel not by Kastner but by [Zionism’s] Government, whose leaders had been Kastner’s superiors and had drawn up the policy he had implemented.** > > > >The trial did not go well for the [neocolonial] Government. Greenwald was cleared of the charge of libel, indicating that **there was a firm basis for his accusation that Kastner’s Rescue Committee had collaborated with the [Fascists] and helped them to exterminate the bulk of Hungarian Jewry in exchange for being allowed to save more than 600 prominent Zionists and take them to Palestine.** > > :::spoiler (Emphasis added. Click here for more details.) > Pages 58–60: > > >According to the Judge in the Kastner case, Benjamin Halevi: “The Jews of the ghettoes would not have trusted the [Axis] rulers. But they had trust in their Jewish [but Zionist] leaders. Eichmann and others used this known fact as part of their calculated plan to mislead the Jews. They were able to deport the Jews to their extermination by the help of [Zionist] leaders… Those of the Jews who tried to warn their friends of the truth were persecuted by the Jewish leaders in charge of the local ‘rescue work’. The trust of the Jews in the misleading information and their lack of knowledge that their wives, children and themselves were about to be deported to the gas chambers of Auschwitz led the victims to remain quiescent in their ghettoes… **The [Fascists’] patronage of Kastner, and their agreement to let him save 600 prominent Jews, were part of the plan to exterminate the Jews**… The opportunity of rescuing prominent people appealed to him greatly. **He considered the rescue of the most important Jews as a great personal success and a success for Zionism…** > > > >“The sacrifice of the vital interests of the majority of the Jews, in order to rescue the prominents, was the basic element in the agreement between Kastner and the [Axis]. This agreement fixed the division of the nation into two unequal camps, a small fragment or prominents, whom the [Axis] promised Kastner to save, on the one hand, and the great majority of Hungarian Jews whom the [Axis] designated for death, on the other hand. **An imperative condition for the rescue of the first camp by the [Axis] was that Kastner will not interfere in the action of the [Axis] against the other camp and will not hamper them in its extermination. Kastner fulfilled that condition**… Collaboration between the Jewish Agency Rescue Committee and the exterminators of the Jews was solidified in Budapest and Vienna. Kastner’s duties were part and parcel of the SS. In addition to its Extermination Department and Looting Department, the […] SS opened a Rescue Department headed by Kastner.”^77^ > > > >Greenwald’s lawyer Shmuel Tamir (who as a member of the Herut party was hoping to topple the government of the Mapai party to which Kastner belonged) next sought to bring Kastner to trial for collaboration with [Fascism]. For this, Tamir collected “a suitcase full of new evidence against Dr. Kastner, and God knew whom else.” > > > >Before this second trial could be held, however, Kastner was assassinated by Zeev Eckstein, formerly “a paid undercover agent of the [neocolonial] government’s Intelligence Service”, thereby putting an end to the danger that his appearance in court might reveal more embarrassing details.^78^ > > > >At the same time that Kastner was carrying through his deal with the [Axis], Rabbi Weissmandel wrote to the Zionist movement: “We send you this special message to inform you that yesterday the [Axis] began the deportation of Jews from Hungary… The deported ones go to Auschwitz to be put to death by cyanide gas… This is the schedule of Auschwitz. from yesterday to the end: 12,000 Jews—men, women and children, old men, infants, healthy and sick ones — are to be suffocated daily… > > > >“And you, our brothers in Palestine, in all the countries of freedom, and you, ministers of all the Kingdom, how do you keep silent in the face of this great murder? Silent while thousands on thousands, reaching now to 6 million Jews, were murdered. And silent now while tens of thousands are still being murdered and waiting to be murdered? Their destroyed hearts cry out to you for help as they bewail your cruelty. Brutal you are and murderers too you are, because of the cold‐bloodedness of the silent in which you watch. Because you sit with folded arms and you do nothing, although you could stop or delay the murder of Jews at this very hour… You, our brothers, sons of Israel, are you insane? Don’t you know the hell around us? For whom are you saving your money ? Murderers. Madmen. Who is it that gives charity? You who toss a few pennies from your safe homes ? Or we who give our blood in the depths of hell?”^79^ > > (Emphasis added.) > ::: > > --- > :::spoiler Click here for events that happened today (January 23). > [**1937**](https://ww2db.com/event/today/1/23/1937): Heinrich Himmler disclosed that about eight thousand prisoners were in concentration camps across the Third Reich for protective custody. Coincidentally, Orso Mario Corbino, Fascist Italy’s Minister of National Economy in 1923–24, expired. > [**1940**](https://ww2db.com/event/today/1/23/1940): Fascist submarine *U‐19* discovered a group of twenty unescorted steamers off Northumberland. With one torpedo each, she sank Norwegian ship *Pluto* at 0843 hours and British ship *Baltanglia* at 0855 hours. > [**1941**](https://ww2db.com/event/today/1/23/1941): Charles Lindbergh testified before the US Congress, recommending that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with the Third Reich. Although the Axis lost Tobruk, Libya, fighting would continue at outposts outside the city for another day. In Europe, six hundred Polish prisoners arrived at Flossenbürg Concentration Camp from Auschwitz Concentration Camp, and Rome made Commander Vittorio Moccagatta the head of the Special Weapons Section of 1a Flottiglia MAS at La Spezia. Likewise, Axis Fw 200 aircraft bombed British ship *Lurigethan* west of Ireland, leaving sixteen dead, and the Kingdom of Romania’s Capital Military Command mopped up the last pockets of Legionary resistance, but the pogrom still officially left 118 dead (with unofficial estimates counting 630 dead and 400 missing). > [**1942**](https://ww2db.com/event/today/1/23/1942): The Battle of Rabaul commenced the Eastern Axis’s invasion of Australia’s Territory of New Guinea, and Imperial bombers attacked Palembang, Sumatra for the first time. In Yugoslavia, Western Axis troops massacred 2,462 Serbs and 700 Jews over six days in retaliation for partisan activity. > [**1943**](https://ww2db.com/event/today/1/23/1943): The Axis lost Tripoli, Libya; Armavir, Russia; and the Gumrak Airfield on the western side of Stalingrad to the Allies. The Axis submarine facilities at Lorient, France also suffered an Allied bombing raid. > [**1944**](https://ww2db.com/event/today/1/23/1944): The Axis executed 180 prisoners deemed ‘invalid’ by gunfire at Majdanek Concentration Camp in occupied Poland. > [**1945**](https://ww2db.com/event/today/1/23/1945): Axis admiral Karl Dönitz launched Operation Hannibal; Kriegsmarine units began the evacuation of German civilians from Ostpreußen (East Prussia) and Danzig. The Axis lost the Oder River in the Silesia region of Poland, and the last Japanese survivors of Myinmu, Burma drowned themselves in the Irrawaddy River to avoid capture while the Axis lost a patrol boat off the Bonin Islands. > [**1946**](https://ww2db.com/event/today/1/23/1946): The hearing against Hans Fritzsche began in Nürnberg. > :::

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/3869214 > **Institution:** Yale > **Lecturer:** Prof. Donald Kagan > **University Course Code:** CLCV 205 > **Subject:** #history #ancientgreece > **Description:** > This is an introductory course in Greek history tracing the development of Greek civilization as manifested in political, intellectual, and creative achievements from the Bronze Age to the end of the classical period. Students read original sources in translation as well as the works of modern scholars. More at !opencourselectures@slrpnk.net

I'm trying to recall some of my earliest memories of world events. The further back I go, the more vague things get as you'd expect. I think I recall seeing on tv over the course of several days in the 90s a tragic and mostly unsuccessful rescue operation to try and dig out kids who were buried in rubble and mud from a giant landslide that occurred after an earthquake. I think it was in a part of the world you might have called 3rd world at the time and this featured in the media coverage in respect to the inadequacy of the rescue operation and the infrastructure allowing access to the site of the disaster. What sticks in my mind is footage, almost always from the same angle, a very wide shot from far away of the school on a very steep hillside just about completely buried in mud. I think the buildings nearby that still stood looked kind of tropical, I think I recall tin roofs but the memory is a bit too vague to say that for sure. I think the angle all the news coverage seemed to be using over the several days must have been one of the only cameras near the scene and in a fixed spot since it was hard to see much of what was going on and it was the same angle throughout the reporting. While researching this I came across photos of the [Aberfan disaster](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberfan_disaster) in Wales and thought that might have been it until I saw it was from the 60s, and also the hillside wasn't really tall enough and the obviously the location, UK doesn't match my memory. I also found stuff about the [same thing](https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1054089/18-children-buried-landslide-hits-school) happening in Yunan Province in China. But that was in 2012. The photo in that article is basically exactly my memory in terms of hillside and type of region I'm thinking except that I recall it being a bit more cropped in and much more blurry SD-analogue TV-ish looking as it was actually footage not a photo.