Andrei.Hicks wrote on Jul 30^th, 2013 at 2:21pm:


That wasn't even my point anyway. I was disputing what you said about Germany's "sustained bombing" campaign against Britain, which didn't last beyond 12 months. I can see how it seemed that I was saying that Germany never bombed Britain ever again, but that's mainly because after typing out a much longer post I decided to just cut it short and didn't check carefully what I was posting. In the context of talking about a "sustained bombing" campaign, however, the bombing did stop -- momentarily.

My mistake, however, doesn't excuse you from exaggerating and making an inaccurate statement. Contrary to what you said, Britain did not suffer from anywhere near "5 years" of "sustained, solid daily bombings."

Starting from June 1941, Germany started invading the Soviet Union and they took 4,000 aircraft over there as well, meaning that Britain was mostly off the hook. They lost most of it there. Operation Steinbock in 1944 was nowhere near as successful as the original "blitz" over Britain. They lost a staggering 329 out of 524 bombers in that campaign, a much higher proportion of losses than during the whole Battle of Britain campaign. That was due to the lack of experience of their bomber crews then and much better British defences.

The V2 rockets were a spectacular achievement, but they didn't get to enjoy them for very long.

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Jul 30^th, 2013 at 2:21pm:


We learnt Asian history when I was in secondary school, but there were plenty of books about WW2 in the school library covering both the Pacific and European theatres.

corporate_whitey wrote on Jul 30^th, 2013 at 4:21pm:



Like a bob hawke?

BigOl64 wrote on Jul 30^th, 2013 at 4:34pm:

Close enough that as free market capitalism collapses under the weight of its own corruption, those who have been involved in what is clearly economic crimes against the Australian people will be charged for their participation in organized crime and judged accordingly by the harshest of socialist measures...its a free market only in their minds...they will be made to be accountable for their actions and decisions that affect the socio economic entitlements of fellow citizens...

All you free market capitalists need to understand that when your organized crime networks collapse that private property and profit in all of its forms will be abolished...be ware of what sounds to you like a clever idea to punish someone you are exploiting...socialists view things very differently....we view property and crime very differently...

Verge wrote on Jul 30^th, 2013 at 4:36pm:



Because one is an interesting historical event and the other is just a policy pant load, never going to happen.

BigOl64 wrote on Jul 30^th, 2013 at 5:01pm:

If you are a right wing redneck, or just some corrupt sh1t feeding off the free market of corruption...stop it, when socialism comes in people involved in organized economic crimes against social property rights will be dealt with by the harshest of socialist measures which will include but is not limited to penal reeducation and rehabilitation...

Lobo wrote on Jul 30^th, 2013 at 4:49pm:


Yeah because I was in WW2 Pete.
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