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This chap is ethnically Orthodox.
“Next they’ll be referring to the Protestants of Northern Ireland as “ethnic Britons”.”
You mean Welsh.
Re: Pol Pot, Mao, etc. The Taipings were similar in their lethality. Mixing a semi-Christian fanaticism with their peasant ardour and the cult-like hero-worship we see in Maoist sects, they executed homosexuals and other minorities and deified their leaders.
Well said, Alan. Chinese Leninists are full of “national liberation”, unless you are Formosan, Vietnamese, Tibetan, Uighur, etc. That’s why they supported Pol Pot (liberate people from life!) Idi Amin, and, finally Nixon and Thatcher.
I cannot recommend enough the superb book, A TRAGIC LIBERATION, whose author I will give here in a moment.Lenin didn’t give a fig about his “national liberation” balderdash unless it suited him and the “Communist” Party.
He sent Trotsky to butcher the Ukrainian peasantry and the Makhnovists, even though it was Makhno who had crushed the Whites and had saved Moscow.
Lenin also sent his Red Army thugs to destroy the democratic Menshevik govt in Georgia and the Siberian Makhnovist soviets.60% of Japan’s military supplies came from the USA before America entered WW2, and while Japan was attacking China. Germany supplied China against its ally Japan, while Americans privately helped Chiang via the Burma airlift.
Hitler’s stand was also anti-imperialist. Like Putin, he proclaimed “Our patience is at an end”, referring to the stifling of Germany by the colonial powers Britain and France and the exclusion of Germany from markets.
In fact, in France the peasantry was mostly royalist. It was the nascent urban working class of the towns who joined the bourgeoisie and became its force.
Of course, a section of the bourgeoisie of France had married into the aristocracy and been ennobled. They emigrated. Sade refers to them as the upstarts ennobled since Louis XIV, whom they paid for titles. They were called the noblesse de robe.
