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Great to read of men who have the nerves to take responisibility and not hiding behind each other

Yes why not, Eendracht, Zeven Provincien and De Ruyter. Nice names for a cruiser class, refering to the 17th century. The first two were 17th century warships and De Ruyter was commanding the Zeven Provincien.

Eendracht class large light cruisers with 10 x 150 mm maingun armament Ever since the cancelation of the light cruiser Celebes, part of the Java Class light cruisers the Royal Netherlands Navy desired a third light cruiser. During the cabinet term of Ruys de Beerenbroekc III (1929-193) ...

Lysenkoism is indeed upper level lunacy. Never the less I am very, very sceptical of the communist system. It is inherent in disregarding the indiviual and value for life. Trotsky showed this in the civil war. Further power, specially absolute power combined with an extremist ideology will...

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You never know, Stalin started this purges on a large scale in the thirties after he was some year in power. If officers in the Red Amry could be become a danger to his poewer, real or imagined he will start killing, like every despot

He might not target minorities, make him than better? I wonder if there is no Holodomor, there might be even a much larger famine in the Sovjet Union due to extremist agriculture experiments. Milions perrished in China as well due to the policies of Mao and his communist.

Trotski was a communist, that alone is extreme enough. Defenitly he would sent milions in the slavery Gullag system , his ''buddy'' Lenin started the system. Trosky led the Red Army during the civil war and was sucsesfull manly due to his extrmism and ruthlesness. It would be naive to think that...

Trotsky became the leader of the Sovjet Union in stead of Stalin, and then what? There will be milions sent to the Gullag, hundred of thousand people will disappear, and the economy will be just the same commando economy as under Stalin. They are both extremist, the difference is, Stalin had a...

The last bit is, I think, spot on. Combined with, probably, the correct intrepetation by the Japanese why Lord Gort and Park ended up in Malaya. Most likely the Japanese will disregard the information of the improvements and reinforcements and see it as ''pathetic panic play of the Europeans''...

Were the infamous ''Einsatz truppen'' not the occupation force in the East, or were this deathsquads rooming around? I understood the National Socialist industry politics were not efficient, but a ( partly) demobed Whermacht and German laborers would mean less dependency on foreign workers. I...

Interesting time line, nice to read. So the Whermacht is largely demobisied, and the men returning back to the farms and factories or in the reconstruction of buildings and infrastructure in Germany and the ocupied lands. This increase in German production workers should improve production or...

Hmm, that is a very odd history and agree this make it more likely that the ship will be hit. An other way is that the mutuny never happens. As I understand the reason for the mutiny was the drastic cutback on the salary of the sailors.

Well a aricraft bomb can easily miss a ship....as was intended according to the records. it is a very elite club, probably the liking of Furstner, but on the otherhand a smart man could see that this was nothing more than but a club of men who where , want to return to the 19th century...

😄 you are really not a fan of him😄