/u/lightiggy's posts in /r/TheDeprogram
During the Russian Civil War, the Bolsheviks were surprised when some Tsarists, including General Aleksei Brusilov, collaborated with them. Lenin was reluctant to accept their help, but later said the Reds might've lost without them. Brusilov was one of Russia's best officers in the Great War.
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“ROBERT E. LEE - HIS BRUTALITY TO HIS SLAVES.” This statement by Wesley Norris was published by National Anti-Slavery Standard in 1866.
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Christopher Mayhew was a pioneer in anti-Zionism in Britain. When he met Israeli Foreign Minister Golda Meir in 1963, Mayhew said she had a "colonial settler's mindset" eerily similar to that of British settlers in Africa. Meir related to Palestinians only as "drivers, gardeners and houseboys."
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The 620th Engineer General Service Company was a U.S. Army company in World War II intentionally composed of soldiers who were suspected of pro-Nazi sympathies. The army dumped them at a remote base to perform menial tasks. The soldiers wore different uniforms and were not allowed to have weapons.
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Christopher Mayhew was a pioneer in anti-Zionism in Britain. When he met Israeli Foreign Minister Golda Meir in 1963, Mayhew said she had a "colonial settler's mindset" eerily similar to that of British settlers in Africa. Meir related to Palestinians only as "drivers, gardeners and houseboys."
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The 620th Engineer General Service Company was a U.S. Army company in World War II intentionally composed of soldiers who were suspected of pro-Nazi sympathies. The army dumped them at a remote base to perform menial tasks. The soldiers wore different uniforms and were not allowed to have weapons.
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