He moved into a political vacuum. Before the Great Depression, Hitler's popularity was in the single digits. A lost war, a depression, inflation, and then an even worse depression... would have broken a lot of peoples.
I've lived up and down the coast, from Vancouver to Los Angeles, never more than 75 miles from the Pacific Ocean. Minnesota, Manitoba ... they get way too cold in the winter for me.
Clowns??? No, actually NHL players are the best in the world. Langley is right, highly unlikely Russia would beat Canada if they played. So, thanks to them, they didn't come...
NHL is a closed tournament which is run as a financial enterprise. These guys are really getting the most money and I would agree that NHL has the most expensive players in the world. But sport is something completely different. Sport is competition. Today the best sportsman is one guy, tomorrow - the other. You can only evaluate the quality of players and teams according to their results. European hockey is organized as tournament and countries are constantly playing with each other. So my view is that german players are sportsmen and NHL players are part of the money-making show. Whether they are the best players or not - you never know. To check that they need to make a team and come to the tournament. They surely have a great chance to win. But I wouldn't bet that Canada or the USA would have easily won their game against Germany. NHL is another overcomplicating pin in the body of international sport. It is a great show. Indeed.
I bet Canada with NHL players would easily beat Germany. And sorry I can't accept that logic. Doesn't matter what you are part of, a result in a box matters only.
Germany's an economic powerhouse for being subservient to Washington, while it in turn manipulates other EU nations for its own benefit. The Russians unlike you people, have pride and a sense of justice, something you could never understand. So continue your economic progress, because it's all you have.
I would like to see the Olympics ended until politics are removed from it. It has turned into a tension creating political circus. IMO, if germany had been able to get a deal with Churchhill, where germany could have concentrated on defeating russia, instead of fighting on the west and east that war may have turned out differently. Glad it did not of course, just talking history here. The down side of the win for americans is that some of our elites like the Dulles brothers copied the nazis, with their dream of a one world order. The CIA was formed with this in mind, an effort that used gov't and big business/banking to get hegemony and a one world order. Or a new world order with america and her vassal states. Germany has been a vassal state since post ww2. Not that I like it or agree with it, for I do not. I hate any empire.
In this video, you can hear the Russians drown out the non anthem of the American corporate financed Olympics, with the anthem of the Russian Federation. Sounds like the Russians brought a few opera singers with them. Good for them!
My German friends tell me that, surprisingly, ice hockey is not all that popular there. In Russia, I understand that the popularity of the sport rivals that of soccer in places like Spain and Italy.... . "Oh, HELL yes!"
??? The only time Russia ever became a superpower was under bolchevism. Before and after that, Russia always been a large, poor country.
Being a superpower didn't do the people any good. Their lives were miserable, no rights, no prosperity, millions dying in the gulags or starving to death.
Because of the Marshall Plan. Generosity and helping nations get on their feet was habitual at the time. How about Germany, was it ever generous to the other EU nation? I don't think so, otherwise Britain wouldn't be leaving. As Nigel Farage said, the only nation that has gained from the EU is Germany.
Actually under Tsar Nicholas II the Russian Empire was the fastest growing economy in the world. Bolshevism threw its progress back 10 years. The Tsar also had a plan on distributing his estates among the peasants, but had to wait until after the war - this is why Lenin and the Bolshevik propaganda machines were working overtime. If you're thinking of poverty in the sense of how many people are living in substandard conditions, then I have news for you. Andrew Carnegie the great beneficiary had his men work 12 hours a day, with only one day off a year - the 4th of July. When he showed a Scotch visitor his city of Pittsburgh, the man said now I have seen hell. The same could be said about farmers in the dust belt, Britain in the 19th and even 20th century, etc. If you're thinking of wealth in terms of the elite, one only has to compare Imperial Russia to other European nations. As the Tsarina Alesandra said when visiting her grandmother Victoria: "Everything is so small." .........
