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3 years 11 months ago - 3 years 11 months ago #578
by Nikita
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October 3, 1952
In the lagoon of Monte Bello islands, Western Australia, the first British nuclear bomb detonates, liberating an energy of 25 kilotons of TNT. With the success of Operation Hurricane and after the United States and the Soviet Union, Britain becomes the third nuclear power.
In the lagoon of Monte Bello islands, Western Australia, the first British nuclear bomb detonates, liberating an energy of 25 kilotons of TNT. With the success of Operation Hurricane and after the United States and the Soviet Union, Britain becomes the third nuclear power.
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3 years 11 months ago #579
by snowman
German submarine U-129 picked up 119 survivors of German supply ship Klara, sunken by British cruiser HMS Kenya on the previous day, 300 miles northeast of the Azores islands.
"Straight and narrow is the path."
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4 October 1941
German submarine U-129 picked up 119 survivors of German supply ship Klara, sunken by British cruiser HMS Kenya on the previous day, 300 miles northeast of the Azores islands.
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3 years 11 months ago - 3 years 11 months ago #581
by Nikita
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October 6, 1973
At 2 p.m., 250 Mig-17 and Mig-21 from the Egyptian Air Force enter Israel's airspace. They're going to strike three command centers, three air bases, several radar stations, artillery positions and MIM-23 Hawk surface-to-air missile batteries in the Hebrew state. Five minutes later, 2,000 pieces of artillery open fire on all the fortifications along the Bar-Lev line. This artillery preparation is one of the longest in history, it's going to last 53 minutes and, during the first minute, 10,500 shells are fired, i.e. about 175 shells per second. Among the 30 Israeli bunkers built over 200km along the Suez Canal, 29 are destroyed. Simultaneously, Syria, ally of Egypt, strikes on the Golan with five divisions, 1,400 T-62 tanks and 188 artillery batteries. Syrian helicopter-borne commandos immediately seize the most important Israeli surveillance stronghold on Mount Hermon.
The Yom Kippur War begins, it will last twenty days and, by its strategic, tactical, political, geopolitical, economic aspects, by its long-term consequences, the fourth Arab-Israeli conflict will have a considerable impact on the whole world and particularly the Western world. *
* See also :
Camp David Accords
1973 oil crisis
At 2 p.m., 250 Mig-17 and Mig-21 from the Egyptian Air Force enter Israel's airspace. They're going to strike three command centers, three air bases, several radar stations, artillery positions and MIM-23 Hawk surface-to-air missile batteries in the Hebrew state. Five minutes later, 2,000 pieces of artillery open fire on all the fortifications along the Bar-Lev line. This artillery preparation is one of the longest in history, it's going to last 53 minutes and, during the first minute, 10,500 shells are fired, i.e. about 175 shells per second. Among the 30 Israeli bunkers built over 200km along the Suez Canal, 29 are destroyed. Simultaneously, Syria, ally of Egypt, strikes on the Golan with five divisions, 1,400 T-62 tanks and 188 artillery batteries. Syrian helicopter-borne commandos immediately seize the most important Israeli surveillance stronghold on Mount Hermon.
The Yom Kippur War begins, it will last twenty days and, by its strategic, tactical, political, geopolitical, economic aspects, by its long-term consequences, the fourth Arab-Israeli conflict will have a considerable impact on the whole world and particularly the Western world. *
* See also :
Camp David Accords
1973 oil crisis
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3 years 11 months ago #582
by snowman
On Oct. 7, 1941, the socialist dictator of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, lifted a ban on religion in the empire in order to help boost morale both in the military (which was getting slaughtered by the German war machine) and the general populace (which was starving and getting slaughtered). The lifting of the ban on religion reversed just over two decades of state-sponsored oppression against religious believers and clergymen.
The reasons for the Soviet Union’s oppression of religious believers are many and varied, but the main one that stands out is that Lenin and other Bolsheviks, once they wrested power away from their political opponents, set out to remake a society that would be totally atheistic and secular. Without competition from gods, the socialist republics of the Soviet Union could then step in and replace the human need for something higher. Instead of a God, or gods, reverence would be directed towards the state, and the state would be responsible for providing its citizens with meaningful work and a standard of living that was not driven by crass consumerism.
The violence and starvation that accompanies socialist governments is by now well-known (though not well-acknowledged, thanks in large part to sympathies held by the Western intelligentsia for socialist programs), but the attacks on religious beliefs and organizations often slips by even the most astute enemies of socialism ...
"Straight and narrow is the path."
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7 October 1941
On Oct. 7, 1941, the socialist dictator of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, lifted a ban on religion in the empire in order to help boost morale both in the military (which was getting slaughtered by the German war machine) and the general populace (which was starving and getting slaughtered). The lifting of the ban on religion reversed just over two decades of state-sponsored oppression against religious believers and clergymen.
The reasons for the Soviet Union’s oppression of religious believers are many and varied, but the main one that stands out is that Lenin and other Bolsheviks, once they wrested power away from their political opponents, set out to remake a society that would be totally atheistic and secular. Without competition from gods, the socialist republics of the Soviet Union could then step in and replace the human need for something higher. Instead of a God, or gods, reverence would be directed towards the state, and the state would be responsible for providing its citizens with meaningful work and a standard of living that was not driven by crass consumerism.
The violence and starvation that accompanies socialist governments is by now well-known (though not well-acknowledged, thanks in large part to sympathies held by the Western intelligentsia for socialist programs), but the attacks on religious beliefs and organizations often slips by even the most astute enemies of socialism ...
"Straight and narrow is the path."
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