Ivan Betinov wrote:Eee-Eew! Dancing with Poles! How can you dance with people from a country that was never able to get Communism right?
Komissar al-Blogunov wrote:So that's why Danzig in Poland has always been a problem!
Hah! Now everything is illuminated!
This thread would be a nonentity, if there wasn't the Apollo 11 Moon landing...
But: no Apollo 11, if there wasn't the Saturn rocket.
But: no Saturn rocket, if there wasn't Dr. Wernher von Braun in Huntsville, AL.
But: no von Braun in Huntsville, if there wasn't Operation Paperclip.
But: no Operation Paperclip, if there wasn't WW2.
But: no WW2, if there wasn't* the Free City of Danzig, the Danziger Bay, the Westerplatte peninsulette in that bay, the Polish garrison stationed on Westerplatte, the German battleship (Schleswig-Holstein) visiting Danzig, and its - apparently out of nowhere, yet well pre-planned - salvo against the Westerplatte garrison.
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Mystery item No. 1 Danzig or not Danzig, the thing which - in hindsight - became WW2 was brewing up for years (indeed, decades), and was already around 1936 a near-inevitability. There was madness, fanatism, megalomania galore (there
always is madness, fanatism, megalomania galore - just look now out the window), and the near-inevitable started rolling.
September 1, 1939. Opening salvo, and barely 5 hours later Führer orated in Reichstag, the mickeymoused Parliament, blaming Polish provocations, and expounded:
Seit 5 Uhr 45 wird jetzt zuRRRückgeschossen! (
Since 5:45 there is shooting back!). While, in parallel, German troops rolled over Poland's western border.
Two weeks later (and the Western half of Poland already taken), Soviet troops roll in from the east. As outlined in the (secret part) of the Molotov-Ribbentrop cocktail, signed just a week before the Danzig-Westerplatte salvo.
(famous
Rendezvous by David Low, printed on 09/20/1939 in the London Evening Standard)
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So, WW2, spiraling madly.. soon of global implications.. Uncle Sam (thank goodness!) steps in..
... WW2 petering out, in a side-splinter micro-event of that hell, Wernher von Braun & Team - until then working in Peenemünde (island Usedom) on V1, V2, and further Wunderwaffen - is taken to Amiland, they land in Huntsville, AL.
Next: Hitler kaputt, East Prussia gone, West Prussia gone, Silesia gone, most of Pomerania gone, whole Eastern Europe - plus a third of (remaining) Germany - flooded by Soviet Paradise. Um, Paradise - yet the deplorables somehow (korrekt, Betinov!) don't get it.
Mystery item No. 2 GDR explodes in July 1953, squashed. June 1956 - Poland, squashed. October/November 1956 - Hungary, invaded. Spring 1968 - Czechoslovakia, invaded. December 1970 - Poland, squashed. September 1980 - Poland, not squashed, indeed: Eastern Bloc death rattle starts (and after 9-10 years, end).
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The Free City of Danzig goes to Poland.
Danzig becomes Gdańsk.
Betinov & Blogunov:
Problem solved. You
never seen anyone Gdańsking, let alone Gdańsking with a Pole, did you?
Yet
one thing remains... It peeves... Ah, yes -
Pomerania!
Look here, just look here: Danzig, Usedom/Peenemünde, Polish Corridor, East Prussia, West Prussia, WW2, all that tohuwabohu:
And now:
Who is constantly, historically unprecedentedly, behind
all this?
See this, see this, it's all here:
Hmm...
Pomerania-Mueller, after those recent hearings, totally like out of the game, so - who remains?
Why, of course -
Trumputler!
