Comments by "Bruce Tucker" (@brucetucker4847) on "The Far Right French Revolution - The 6 February Crisis | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1934 Part 4 of 4" video.

  1. It lacked the panache of the Revolution, though - no tumbrels, no National Razor, no heads on pikes. And the cavalry didn't even charge with drawn sabres!
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  2. That figure included the wounded. Of course many of them were horribly maimed and disabled. About 1,400,000 French soldiers died in the war out of a total population of a bit over 40 million.
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  3. He should have looked at Gamelin and Huntziger instead.
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  4.  @chrisd8866  Political shrewdness is rare before middle age - younger people tend more to be firebrands.
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  5. I don't think the Church has the same influence. Also monarchism is less of a real possibility.
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  6. They're auto-generated and apparently the program tries to interpret everything as English.
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  7. It's getting like that again in Europe and to a lesser extent in America as well.
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  8. It's something I think people fail to appreciate when evaluating the red scares of the 1930s and 1950s. It wasn't just radical leftists people feared, it was a radical left that had completely sold its soul to a devious, paranoid, murderous and utterly ruthless, and downright evil Stalin regime.
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  9.  @jacksonlarson6099  What makes you say that? There's plenty of right-wing violence in the PNW and I imagine he's including that. The coast itself is mostly liberal but away from the coast the PNW is chock full of neonazis and other white supremacists.
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  10.  @jacksonlarson6099  Understandable, but I prefer to assume that people aren't ignorant until they show otherwise, and the OP said nothing to indicate he meant to blame leftists alone and not, e.g., the Proud Boys who are behind so much of the violence.
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  11. I think that depends on the context. If your political goal is, say, to free your country from a military occupation that is itself established through violence, sometimes violence is the only means to accomplish that. This is something that I think Gandhi and King were wrong about - they both had the luxury of having opponents that, however brutal they could be in their systems of control, had to operate in the larger context of more or less liberal democracies. They were wrong in thinking the policeman will always tire of beating his victim - what happened with both of their movements is that the people back home were repelled by the policeman's brutality and eventually refused to countenance it any longer. The SS and NKVD are perfect examples of how, with the backing of a like-minded (usually totalitarian) government, it is sadly very easy to build a police force that will never tire of beating its victims, or indeed of murdering them, until it runs out of victims to murder. Ireland probably could have been freed without violence, but as pointed out above, the disproportionate violence of the British response to Irish nationalism convinced many Irish people who had previously not supported the IRA that the British would never give up control of Ireland unless they were forced to, and violence was the only means of forcing them. The execution of the leaders of the Easter Rising was probably the most important British action in this context, but bringing in heavy artillery to level downtown Dublin in response to a few hundred ragtag, badly-armed, an largely unsupported rebels didn't help much with public opinion either.
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  12.  @mariakelly5  Bill C was also a frequent flier on RapeAir, aka the "Lolita Express". And Epstein was a big financial supporter of candidates from both parties.
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  13.  Chas Maravel  Still, a better approach than the Soviet alternative, looting its puppet states and sending tanks in to machine-gun anyone who complained, wouldn't you say?
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  14.  @TimeGhost  Given the theme of this series and this video in particular it really should be the center bulb going out while the right and left blaze away!
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  15. It did in the US in the 1930s.
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  16.  @JBlackjackp  I'd say it did. Fascist and communist movements never got any real traction and the country wasn't paralyzed by ideological warfare the way France was.
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