{"id":8066,"date":"2015-05-13T06:04:47","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T11:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8066"},"modified":"2015-05-13T06:04:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T11:04:47","slug":"do-you-want-total-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8066","title":{"rendered":"Do You Want Total War?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"art-postheader\"><a title=\"Permanent Link to Do You Want Total War?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.acting-man.com\/?p=37329\" rel=\"bookmark\">Do You Want Total War?<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>70 Years Since the End of WW2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last week Russia celebrated the 70<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary of \u201cV Day\u201d over Nazi Germany with a traditional huge military parade in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-37332 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.acting-man.com\/blog\/media\/2015\/05\/resized_99265-russia-victory-parade_will_61-19595_t630.jpg\" alt=\"resized_99265-russia-victory-parade_will_61-19595_t630\" width=\"630\" height=\"418\" \/>Military parade in Moscow on May 9, celebrating the victory over Nazi Germany<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: RT<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, this year the celebrations were marred by the fact that many Western political leaders decided to stay away from Moscow in protest over the Ukraine situation. As\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/davidstockmanscontracorner.com\/the-grisly-truth-about-how-world-war-ii-was-won\/\">Eric Margolis remarks<\/a>, this snub seems quite churlish, especially if one considers that Russia made the biggest sacrifices by far in WW2 (Margolis\u2019 article has all the grisly details, the most striking of which is the fact roughly 27 million Russians lost their lives between 1941 and 1945. Russia accounted for nearly 80% of all allied war casualties). Moreover, without Russia\u2019s participation in the war, Hitler may well have ended up winning it. Eventually the political and economic system the Nazis had erected would have crashed and burned anyway, but without the expansion of the war to a second front, it would have been very difficult and costly to dislodge the Germans from the territories they had conquered.<\/p>\n<p>To be sure, Hitler and Stalin \u2013 the dictators leading two of the most bloodthirsty and murderous governments in the history of the world \u2013 were allies before Hitler decided to unilaterally call the alliance off by invading Russia. When Hitler\u2019s Wehrmacht began to attack Russia, Stalin at first simply couldn\u2019t believe it. He allegedly<em>literally<\/em>\u00a0denied that the reports of Hitler\u2019s invasion were true. Hitler\u2019s armies were already closing in on Moscow, when the other members of the Soviet Politburo arrived at Stalin\u2019s dacha one day, in which he had hidden himself away for two weeks, refusing to communicate with anyone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do You Want Total War? 70 Years Since the End of WW2 Last week Russia celebrated the 70th\u00a0anniversary of \u201cV Day\u201d over Nazi Germany with a traditional huge military parade in Moscow. &nbsp; Military parade in Moscow on May 9, celebrating the victory over Nazi Germany Photo credit: RT &nbsp; However, this year the celebrations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1458,542,5108,742,5383,862,3097,898],"class_list":["post-8066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-hitler","tag-moscow","tag-nazi-germany","tag-soviet-union","tag-total-war","tag-war","tag-world-war-ii","tag-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8067,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8066\/revisions\/8067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}