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2021-06-06 -Great Cultural Revolution

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Posted by Besoeker 2021-06-06 09:45|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Stalin had 'woke' seminars* in the Red Army in the 30s. One of the reasons the Germans got within kilometers of Red Square in 1941.

* Although the senior ranks experienced the most severe losses in terms of percentages (11 of 13 army commanders were shot, as were 57 of the 85 corps commanders and 110 of the 195 division commanders), the numerical bulk of the victims came from subordinates unfortunate enough to be on the wrong staff or performing the wrong mission. Estimates of the total losses created by this mass bloodletting range from 15,000 to 30,000 officers, depending upon the dates used and the figures available. - cite

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-06-06 11:37|| 2021-06-06 11:37|| Front Page Top

#2 a priority for the military "to look like America and not only in the ranks, but our leadership should look like America.

WTF does that even mean?

Posted by Dron66046 2021-06-06 12:13|| 2021-06-06 12:13|| Front Page Top

#3 our leadership should look like America

Divided into semi-autonomous regions with no integrated command?

Posted by Skidmark 2021-06-06 12:25|| 2021-06-06 12:25|| Front Page Top

#4 a priority for the military "to look like America

How about trying it on NBA first?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-06-06 14:25|| 2021-06-06 14:25|| Front Page Top

#5 priority for the military "to look like America

No, priority for the military should be to have the attitude and ability to kill people and break things - not what we want as a priority for Americans in general.

Posted by Glenmore 2021-06-06 15:05|| 2021-06-06 15:05|| Front Page Top

#6 #1, Stalin must have felt like he had good reason to be as paranoid as he was. In fact, his Communist Party's expropriations and murders may well have adversely affected many of those officers and their families and so they had good reason to want him dead. The question then becomes: Are Biden and his handlers planning to give today's American middle class and thereby the officers in today's military the same motivations that Soviet communists did to their military in the 1920's and 1930's?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-06-06 15:23|| 2021-06-06 15:23|| Front Page Top

#7 Will there be a Katyn Forest here?

Posted by Clem 2021-06-06 15:26|| 2021-06-06 15:26|| Front Page Top

Posted by Angunter Whusonter9583 2021-06-06 15:43|| 2021-06-06 15:43|| Front Page Top

#9 "The" implies only one problem. I can think of lots.

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2021-06-06 18:11|| 2021-06-06 18:11|| Front Page Top

#10 ^ This was my 1st thought - followed by: It won't be the military that suffers, and that is the desired design.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2021-06-06 18:38|| 2021-06-06 18:38|| Front Page Top

#11 Malfeasance in office, or official misconduct, is the commission of an unlawful act, done in an official capacity, that affects the performance of official duties. Malfeasance in office is often grounds for a just cause removal of an elected official by statute or recall election.

By subjugation of merit promotion, EEO employment, the SecDef and subordinates have breached the law

Posted by Lionel Spiger2296 2021-06-06 23:18|| 2021-06-06 23:18|| Front Page Top

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