Comments by "Ernst Wiltmann" (@ernstwiltmann6) on "USHANKA SHOW" channel.

  1. I build a lot of 1/72 scale plastic toy military vehicles and airplanes from FROG, in the early 70's, with toy soldiers. Mostly purchased them from a GDR Collector in Radevormwald in 1975. I still have them. In the 80's I handpainted them, together with the Revell, Airfix, Matchbox, and Atlantic Figurines, and build dioramas . The Soviet toys added a special flavor to it.
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  2. Our early Matchbox toy cares weren't any better.
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  3. That's what I'm preaching, thank you for your good elaboration.
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  4.  @joaoonda  I had a secret weapon to work around deficiencies, with Putty and a Nail Grinder. I appreciated the models as they were. That was more than 40 years ago, and I had a lot of patience, fixing things. You are right about Revell incorporating the FROG molds.
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  5.  @SamsRussianAdventures  The beautiful public places, like libraries, cultural buildings and communal workshops.
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  6. NATO also opened the door for the Military Industrial Complex to become as powerful as it is today, and with this absolute power, absolute corruption.
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  7.  @Mario_N64  He suffers under Russophobia, and caters to a crowd that loves to have their bias confirmed.
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  8.  @isleifoterogarcia4478  In my lifetime of 70 years I changed my views a view times, Sometimes they build up slowly, sometimes due to a dramatic event. Or in a combination of both. Anyway, History has been like a Puzzle, where I try to make pieces fit for the big picture. My toys played a part in that development. Most desirably where the toys that remained elusive. Unpacking and putting the final paint strokes on them, were times of greatest pleasure and also self reflection.
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  9. J River Perhaps we should learn a few things from China, that managed to lift 80% of their population out of poverty in just 40 years.
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  10. I like that analogy, good observation.
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  11. @Black Card You are doing pretty good, our students (my grandchildren) need my financial intervention , to have a decent flat to stay in, and healthy food, never mind a vehicle. Their 3 part time jobs are not enough to pay the bills.
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  12.  @jessemiller6318  You are right, I did not expect to run into someone here, who has studied the subject deeper. Americans and wester Europeans usually react superficially, so I replied likewise. I apologize.
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  13. Tim F Why can we no longer make it work, it had such a nice trickle down effect. It seems that this engine seized over 25 years ago.?
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  14. They where right, NATO is a bad deal.
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  15.  @ashcarrier6606  Finland used to be part of the Russian Empire until 1918.
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  16. Gordon Lumbert Your Quote: ## USSR conquered Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia... ## ...................................................... The Baltic countries where part of the Russian Empire until 1917, German occupation in 1917, helped creating their independence movements.
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  17. Gordon Lumbert : Your quote : ## Ate 1/2 of Poland ## ............................... Poland was contested ground for centuries, many countries invaded it, occupied it and administrated it. They only gained independence when their neighbors where busy fighting each other.
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  18. Gordon Lumbert Your quote: ## Left the Polish rebels unsupported ## ......................................................................... Polish rebels where split into 2 factions, one run by the government in exile from Britain, and the communist one.
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  19. Gordon Lumbert Your quote: ## they fought the NAZIs even though they were very near Warsaw. ## ................................................................................... The Soviet Army was after the conclusion of operation Bagration, in no shape to cross the Vistula. They where almost out of fuel and ammunition. Please take a look at this British historian site TIK https://www.youtube.com/user/TheImperatorKnight If you really interested in the smallest details to study the battles of WW2, this is the site to look into.
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  20. Gordon Lumbert Your quote : ## Then in the next 20 years when the people rebelled against the USSR ## So did the post war colonies still occupied by Europe, and the Latin Americans fighting US imperialism and regime changes. The democratically elected government of Iran und prime minister Mossadegh was regime changed by MI6 and the CIA, and replaced by a corrupt monarchy under Shah Reza Pavlevi for western access to oil, in 1953. The Soviet Union was seen as a Beacon in the fight against Colonialism, Imperialism and racism, the west was still engaged in, after WW2.
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  21.  @kris28-i3c  Your quote : ## British islands were conquered by Vikings and later by the French.## ...................................................................... The Vikings did raid the British islands but where not conquering them, they where beaten back by King Alfred. The Norman's where only partly French, and did not identify themselves as such, besides using an ancient dialect of French. I don't want to come across as a nitpicker, but we should aim to be more precise.
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  22.  @kris28-i3c  Your quote: ## The notion of nations as we understand it now is quite new in history, ## ..................................................... Please explain to me, of how we understand the notion.
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  23.  @kris28-i3c  Your quote: ## so many of those countries were multicultural and multilingual and actually had no fixes borders. ## .......................................................... The British and the French drew those borders, when they left.
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  24.  @kris28-i3c  Your quote: ## They were managed or owned by just big noble house that were be more like today’s corporations rather then some national governments ## .......................................................................... Today it is the corporate Military Industrial Complex dictating the narratives to "the league of nations " . Countries that do not share those narratives, will be Regime changed , droned, blackmailed or invaded, sometimes with proxy "moderate rebels". Just look what happening with Bolivia and Venezuela. Did you perhaps miss President Dwight D Eisenhowers speech 60 years ago , who sternly warned us, that this would happen : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg-jvHynP9Y
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  25. Gordon Lumbert Your quote: ## USSR conquered Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia...## ................................................................................................... Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia where Russian Empire provinces for centuries, you want to dispute that ?
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  26.  @kris28-i3c  That is the Metageography guy, please give me a break : "In 1969, Soviet geographers Gokhman, Gurevich and Saushkin wrote that "[m]etageography is concerned with study of the common basis of geographical regularities and the potentialities of geography as a science" and argued that many factors must be taken into account in order to define geographical entities, not simply spatial ones".
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  27.  @kris28-i3c  Hahhah, Sopot near Danzig, eh !
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  28.  @ashcarrier6606  By choice of what ?
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  29.  @ashcarrier6606  Don't you think your question is naïve ? Monarchy's at that period did not have the people's choice in their portfolio. There was only Switzerland, and it was only 50 years later , that the US joined, and shortly after France. Mind you that the US democracy included slavery as the people's choice, and France introduced democracy with a reign of terror. Just to get some perspective and the bigger picture.
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  30.  @ashcarrier6606  Your quote: ## Legitimacy is only derived by choice ## ..................................................... By that standard, the Third Reich enjoyed legitimacy. Remember what happened when Socrates was judged by a Democratic court ? So this is a matter that still is a domain of Philosophy.
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  31.  @ashcarrier6606  Your quote: ## The fact Russia militarily occupied Finland and imposed its will upon people who were NOT Russian prior to 1918 justifies nothing.## ......................................................................................................................... ....I did not say it does, all I'm saying, it was the usual politics of that period. To keep that in perspective, India was ruled with an Iron fist by the British Empire at that time, and the US supported all crimes against humanity conducted by the United Fruit Company, in Latin America at that period too. And trust me the list is a lot longer. I just do not like the hypocrisy conducted by our corporate Main Street Media. I guess when you fight, you fight hard, and when you fight with skill, you will have admirers.
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  32.  @kris28-i3c  Your quote: ## NATO just an alliance to protect its members and stop soviet expansion. And still remains. ## ............................................................................. NATO turned into a menace for world peace and is acting as a tool for corporate expansion, with no problems to ally themselves with an apartheid state and middle age Islamic despot states, further using jihadist's sold to our public as moderate rebels, to destabilize middle eastern secular states. Same applies with right wing Hispanic death squads sold to us as legitimized freedom fighters trying to regime chance South American countries with majority Native governments. See Bolivia, Venezuela, Equador, just to name a few. You remember when Columbia was proposed as a new NATO member ?
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  33.  @kris28-i3c  Your quote: ## If not for NATO all Baltic States (maybe Poland as well) ## ................................................................................... Those states are increasingly seen as a liability by Germany, France and perhaps a few more western European states. Poland is turning into a clerical fascist state, with it's LGBT free zones, and what not. The Baltic States are more loyal to the US and the UK, and a hindrance for normalization talks with Russia. i
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  34.  @gordonlumbert9861  That sounds like the fate of New Mexico, does it, and than there is Puerto Rico occupied for now 120 years. I'm sure you have another word for that, right ?
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  35.  @gordonlumbert9861  Your quote: ## USSR was trying to eliminate local society like in Ukraine ## ................................................................................................... How do you explain the Kiev'n Russ ? Was Kiev not once the capital of Russia ?
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  36.  @gordonlumbert9861  Your quote: ## Ukraine .......so I'm guessing not to popular with local people. ### ......................................................................... The cradle of Civil War lies within the former Austro Hungarian provinces of Galicia and the Transkarpathian Ukraine ( Carpatho-Ukraine). There is an excellent Polish Documentary about this topic called "The Silverlands " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ_FprMmjNs&t=649s So we don't have to rely on some former roommates testimony.
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  37.  @gordonlumbert9861  The Ukraine also fielded an elected chairman , Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was a Soviet politician who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War as the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and as chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964. He decided, that the Crimea should be part of the Ukraine.
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  38.  @gordonlumbert9861  Recently I watched a very interesting series on Amazon Prime, about Georgy Zhukov. Of what happened to him after he returned from Berlin in 1946. Many segments of this film tell the story of his interactions with Khrushchev and how they both survived a paranoid Stalin. Beria as the other very interesting character. The acting is superb. If you have Amazon Prime take a peek . You might be able to watch it on youtube too: Here is the first episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCvcnl67hnU
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  39.  @ashcarrier6606  There was a bloody civil war raging in Finland from 1917 -1919, and yes, there was also the "White Terror" raging against the left in Finland. Are you aware of that ? Finland made a lot of movies about it, like Raja 1918 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoMJf7CHLqA , Käsky (Tears of April) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK73Qzvx1nw Germany got involved on the sides of the Whites to turn the tide. Even after the war was over, German volunteers stayed for a few years for mob up operations after WW1. There where also Bolshevik sympathizers that survived, wanting retribution. The area is much more grey than you believe.
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  40. jhoncho4x4 Try the school of life series, it is very good and entertaining too: https://www.youtube.com/c/theschooloflifetv
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  41.  @stevemcgowen  Now they turned into monsters, how did that happen ?
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  42.  @stevemcgowen  Sometimes Customers get manipulated,
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  43.  @UshankaShow  Do you to believe, that it is the way we are heading ? Are you familiar with Rex Murphy and Jordan Peterson ?
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  44.  @stevemcgowen  Facebook fired because of my unacceptable views . I Did not like Justin Trudeau.
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  45. stevemcgowen Your quote: """ young people without a lot of life experience think socialism and or communism are ideal """"""""""" Our education system does not create history geniuses, they are being programmed that greed is good. It's more about manufacturing consent for our woke, progressive, perfect democratic state, that reached the pinnacle of civilization.
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  46. stevemcgowen Your quote: """" They seem to think they will get a free house or flat, paycheck, car, and everything else- free of charge """"""" is that not what our credit card advertisers promote, with "funny" promises ? Perhaps it explains that the average credit card debtors owe around $63 000.- not including mortgages.
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  47. stevemcgowan Your quote : ""if only their nation gave up on capitalism. """""" Corporatism the perverted form of capitalism does not need intelligent citizens, it needs consumers that will bankrupt themselves, so they can be used as slaves. That's why we have private jails, to back this new system up, to not let offenders get away with anything. Have you heard about jailpay ?
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  48. stevencgowen Your quote: """ The reality is these utopias they dream about never existed and never will...""""" I don't know, but if we don't use Philosophical skills, we might be added to the endangered species list.
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  49. Betty Swunghole We should not elevate Churchill, since Indian historians released evidence of Churchill committing colonial crimes + war crimes.
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  50.  @bettyswunghole3310  It is not important what I think Betty.
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