Re: The U.S. War on Journalists

On May 15, 4:23 pm, "William Black" <william.bl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
> "Andrew Swallow" <am.swal...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > William Black wrote:
> >> "Andrew Swallow" <am.swal...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>news:qMmdnfNJra8I47HVnZ2dnUVZ8t7inZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [snip]
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> >>> The USSR did not respect the Geneva Convention and was punished by
> >>> getting its soldiers killed.
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> >> Saying the Germans murdered large numbers of Soviet soldiers because
the
> >> USSR wasn't a signatory is a hell of a stretch.
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> > I said the USSR did not repect the Geneva Convention i.e. the Russians
> > killed German POWS.
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> Unlike the Germans they did not just shoot captured combatants out of
hand
> or murder them later in prison camps,  neither were captured Nazi Party
> members murdered as a matter of course as German territories were
occupied.
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> Of course many died because of overwork,  but that was because the
Russians
> were,  as a matter of policy, a brutal and unfeeling bunch rather than a
> murderous gang.
>
> --
> William Black
>
> I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
> Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
> I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
> All these moments will be lost in time,  like icecream on the beach
> Time for tea.

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