In the    last week of April, 1944, in the 244 th  week of World War II, when a fierce and determined Soviet Army was preparing to attack Nazi Germany, from the Arctic to the Black Sea; when across the English Channel, the Allies were amassing the greatest amphibious invasion force in History, to breach his Fortress Europe; Adolf Hitler, the Fuehrer, the Head of the Nazi Party, the Head of the German Government and the Head of the German State, made a pronouncement to German    generals. He told them, in no uncertain terms, that there was only one way to victory, a true, sincere  belief in the reigning Ideology. He told  them, that competence on the battlefield no longer mattered; he told them that Competence could no longer ensure victory; only blind devotion to Nazism could win the day. In military matters, in existential matters, in life and death  matters, placing ideological devotion over competence is madness. Hitler placed ideological ...

November 2017 is the 100 th  Anniversary of the RED OCTOBER 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. How can an event be commemorated in  November as the 100 th  Anniversary of an event which occurred in October? Czarist Russia used a Julian Calendar to mark the passing of the days, so events which occurred in October for Russians, happened in November for everyone else. In the New York City, in the Brooklyn of his youth, there were many defeated Russians, White Russians(monarchists) Old Bolsheviks, Trotskyites, followers of Zinoviev and Kamenev, Old Believers, Cadets, and Social Revolutionaries. Many peoples rend their societies over religious conflict; the Russians tore their society apart over a specific religious conflict, how to make the sign of the cross correctly, ah the Russians. This Blogger has an affinity for understanding Russian thought, apparent ever since he read THE LAY OF IGOR’S CAMPAIGN. The first thing one must consider about the...