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The three chimneys of Badalona
#badalona#catalunya#catalonia#spain#three chimneys#tres xemeneies#chimney#power station#tower#urban landscape#2024
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Meanwhile in American zionist clownland….
Ben Shapiro is a smooth-brained conservative pundit who sounds like Kermit the Frog and has spent his entire life trying to achieve peak stupidity. He's also a fanatical zionist, and justifies his unquestioning support for Israel with profound statements like: "Settlements rock! Israelis like to build - Arabs like to bomb crap and live in open sewage"….
In January 2024, after a high profile visit to the Auschwitz Memorial Museum with Elon Musk, he posted a video in which he said that Jews, Roma, Russian soldiers and homosexuals were killed there, but failed to mention the Polish victims.
Although Auschwitz-Birkenau eventually became an extermination centre in which nearly a million Jews were murdered, the Germans created the camp in 1940 initially for the purpose of interning Polish slavic prisoners, who made up the majority of the inmates until 1942.
According to the Auschwitz Memorial Museum, at least 1.1 million of the 1.3 million people who were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau died there.
900,000 Jews were murdered in the gas chambers immediately on arrival at the camp.
Of the 400,000 people who were registered as inmates, more than 50% did not survive.
They included 100,000 Jews, 70,000 Polish slavs, 21,000 Roma, 14,000 Soviet POWs and more than 10,000 prisoners of other nationalities, who died as a result of executions, medical experiments, starvation, brutality and disease.
Nobody knows how many LGBT people were deported to Auschwitz or died there, but only a tiny number were sent to the camp specifically for being gay. It's known that at least 77 men with pink triangles were imprisoned in Auschwitz and some scholars speak of up to 140 prisoners persecuted for their sexual orientation.
During their visit, Musk and Shapiro laid a wreath at the reconstructed "wall of death" next to Block 11, where SS men shot several thousand people, nearly all of whom were ethnically Polish - both Auschwitz prisoners and people who had been sent to the camp specifically to be executed, mainly for resistance activities.
It's amazing how often the camp's second largest victim group get erased from Western historical memory, but at least Shapiro didn't refer to Auschwitz as a "Polish concentration camp"….
#ben shapiro#american idiot#elon musk#history#auschwitz#auschwitz-birkenau#concentration camp#german concentration camp#second world war#world war 2#germany#poland#polska#israel#palestine#historical revisionism#bad history takes#bad history take
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Happy birthday Natalia Hiszpańska (born on 16th April 1904, died on 14th February 1944)….
Natalia Hiszpańska was born in Warsaw, Poland.
She became involved in scouting while in high school and later became a scoutmaster and commander of the 3rd Women's Troop in Warsaw. After leaving school she studied architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology.
Hiszpańska took part in the defence of Warsaw in September 1939 and joined the Polish resistance after the Nazi-Soviet occupation of Poland, working mainly as an intelligence agent. In 1943 she was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant and awarded the Cross of Valour ("Krzyż Walecznych") for her resistance activities. On 8th May 1943, Hiszpańska was arrested by the Gestapo and detained in the Pawiak prison. Despite being subjected to months of brutal interrogation and torture, she didn't give up any information to the Germans.
On 24th August 1943, Hiszpańska was deported to Auschwitz and registered in the camp as prisoner number 55813. She immediately joined the camp's resistance movement. However, weakened by her ordeal at the hands of the Gestapo and exhausted by the backbreaking work she was forced to do at Auschwitz, her health quickly deteriorated and she died in the camp hospital on 14th February 1944.
She has a symbolic grave in Warsaw's Powązki Cemetery.
#Natalia Hiszpańska#Natalia Hiszpanska#poland#polska#history#second world war#world war 2#happy birthday#RIP
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Finally re-united with my long lost twin brother in Badalona….
#badalona#beach#catalunya#catalonia#spain#monkey#badalona monkey#sculpture#Anís del Mono#Anis del Mono#Susana Ruiz Blanch#dirty leeds#separated at birth#2024
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The matchday programme - Leeds United v Blackburn Rovers 13/4/2024
#leeds united#lufc#elland road#football#soccer#stuart dallas#leeds legend#programme#matchday programme#efl#championship#2024
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Leeds United: Meslier, Firpo (Anthony 88), Ampadu, Piroe, Summerville, Rodon, Gray, Georginio (James 67), Gnonto (Joseph 80), Roberts (Byram 67), Gruev (Bamford 67).
Subs not used: Darlow, Cooper, Kamara, Gelhardt.
What a time to suffer our first home defeat of the season….
The shock news before the game was that Stuart Dallas has reluctantly given up his fight to resume his playing career and will retire at the end of the season. It's sad that another Leeds legend, who blossomed under Marcelo Bielsa, will never pull on the white shirt again, and the highlight of this disappointing encounter with Blackburn was hearing the Leeds fans chanting his name over and over again throughout the game. Dallas also got a great reception during the half time interval….
Unlike on Tuesday night when we were dreadful, Leeds actually played reasonably well against Blackburn - we just lacked quality with the final ball and were persistently ineffective from set pieces - I lost count of the number of free kicks in the final third and corners Leeds had, but we never looked like scoring from any of them.
Blackburn had two decent chances, both of which fell to Samuel Szmodics. Illan Meslier tipped his first effort wide of the post at full stretch, but in the 82nd minute, a quick break by the away team ended with Szmodics clipping the ball over Meslier and into the back of the net.
Despite continuing to throw everything at the Blackburn goal, Leeds couldn’t find a way back into the game and Rovers left with all three points.
Ipswich drew and Leicester also lost, but they remain favourites for automatic promotion.
If we in our last three games and Ipswich fail to win one of theirs we could still finish above them. Similarly, Leicester would have to drop points in two of their remaining four games for us to finish above them. However, after getting just five points from a possible 15 from our last five games, and the way Leeds have played, it's hard to imagine us winning another game, let alone getting promoted….
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The History Channel rewrites history by erasing Polish victims of Nazi Germany and claiming they were Jews….
SOURCE: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/gardelegen-massacre-nazi-fire-wwii
The massacre that took place in the German town of Gardelegen on 13th April 1945 was perpetrated by local Germans of the Volkssturm, Hitlerjugend and some of the town's firefighters under the direction of the Nazi SS. The perpetrators forced over 1000 slave labourers (who had been evacuated from the Mittelbau-Dora and Hannover-Stöcken concentration camps) into a large brick barn, which was then set on fire. Most were burned alive or shot while trying to escape.
The next day, the SS and their collaborators returned to the scene of the crime to dispose of the evidence. However, the swift advance of the 102nd Infantry Division of the US Army prevented them from carrying out this plan. After capturing Gardelegen on 14th April 1945 the Americans soon discovered the still-smouldering barn with hundreds of corpses inside, and nearby trenches where the Germans had begun to bury the charred remains of the victims.
The Americans also discovered a few survivors of the massacre, most of whom were Polish slavs.
The victims were of several nationalities, but the majority of those who it was possible to identify were also ethnically Polish.
The so-called History Channel's claim that they were all Jews is completely false.
The testimonies of the survivors were later collected by Polish writer Melchior Wańkowicz and published in his book "From Stołpców To Cairo", in 1969. According to one Polish survivor, Romuald Bąk, who managed to escape from the burning barn, it was full of fresh straw that smelled of gasoline. After herding their prisoners into the barn the SS threw incendiary grenades into it. Fire broke out in several places and was fought by the prisoners. The interior was soon filled with smoke and people were dying all around. Bąk had a knife and began digging a hole next to the barn door. A grenade explosion helped to create a gap that was large enough for him to squeeze through….
US Army Signal Corps photographers soon arrived to document the crime and within a few days the story of the Gardelegen massacre began appearing in the Western press.
On 21st April 1945, the Americans ordered men from Gardelegen to give the victims a proper burial. Over the next few days, the German civilians exhumed 586 bodies from the trenches and recovered 430 bodies from the barn, placing each in an individual grave.
Only one of the perpetrators was officially prosecuted for the Gardelegen massacre: SS-Untersturmführer Erhard Brauny. He appeared before the Dachau Military Tribunal in 1947, and was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. He died of leukemia in 1950.
#gardelegen#gardelegen massacre#history#history channel#historical revisionism#germany#war crime#second world war#world war 2#bad history take#bad history takes
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A photo from 1991 showing Zdzisław Peszkowski, chaplain for the Katyń Families Association, praying over the newly exhumed skulls of Polish officers who were murdered by the Soviet NKVD in Miednoje (Mednoye) in 1940….
The Katyń massacre (“zbrodnia katyńska” in Polish) was the mass murder of approximately 22000 Polish nationals carried out by the Soviet secret police (NKVD) in April and May 1940. The massacre was prompted by a proposal (dated 5th March 1940) from Lavrentiy Beria, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union, to execute all members of the Polish Officer Corps who had been captured and imprisoned by the USSR during the Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939. This official document was approved and signed by the Soviet Politburo, including its leader Joseph Stalin.
As well as approximately 8000 officers of the Polish army, the victims of the Katyń massacre included 6000 police officers and thousands of university lecturers, teachers, doctors, lawyers, civic leaders, politicians, government officials, priests and other members of the “bourgeoisie” who had been targeted for arrest following the Soviet occupation of eastern Poland.
By physically eliminating Poland’s military and civilian elites, Stalin wanted to decapitate the Polish nation and ensure it was less able to resist the enforced Sovietisation of the occupied Polish territories.
The victims were all citizens of Poland, but not all were ethnically Polish - for example, the murdered army officers included Ukrainians, Belarusians and several hundred Jews, among them Baruch Steinberg, the Chief Rabbi of the Polish army. The majority were interned at three Soviet camps (Kozielsk, Starobielsk and Ostaszków) before being taken to NKVD mass murder sites, where they were executed and buried in mass graves.
Although the killings took place at several different locations in Soviet Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, the massacre is named after the Katyń forest in the Smolensk oblast of western Russia where the graves of the Kozielsk prisoners were discovered in 1943. The exact fate of the other victims and the location of their graves was not confirmed until five decades later. After the discovery of the Katyń burial site the USSR denied responsibility for the massacre and tried to blame it on the Germans, and continued to lie about the killings for 50 years until finally admitting Soviet guilt in 1990 and revealing where the remaining victims were buried.
It eventually became possible to exhume and identify the bodies from the mass murder sites at Charków (Kharkiv), where the NKVD murdered the prisoners who were interned at Starobielsk, and Miednoje (Mednoye), where the NKVD murdered the prisoners who were interned at Ostaszków - as well as other locations such as Bykownia (Bykivnia).
Most of the Ostaszków prisoners were killed by Beria’s chief executioner Vasily Blokhin, who was awarded the Order of the Red Banner by Stalin at the end of April 1940 for demonstrating “skill and organisation in the effective carrying out of special tasks”.
Although several other ex-members of the NKVD eventually confessed to participating in the Katyń massacre, none of the perpetrators were ever brought to justice, and neither the Soviet government nor successive governments of Russia have ever permitted a full investigation of this war crime.
There are also plenty of vatniks, tankies and other useful idiots out there who are still in denial about it, even though claims that the murders were carried out by the Germans have zero credibility and have been comprehensively debunked (it’s actually impossible for the Polish prisoners interned at Ostaszków - who disappeared without trace in 1940 and whose bodies were found in Miednoje in 1991 - to have been captured, killed and buried by the Germans, who never reached either of these locations in Russia at any time during World War 2)….
#zdzisław peszkowski#katyń families association#history#katyń#katyn#katyń massacre#katyn massacre#polska#poland#ussr#soviet union#nkvd#second world war#world war 2#1940
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Jacek Kaczmarski - Katyń (1990)
#Spotify#jacek kaczmarski#katyn#katyń#history#katyn massacre#katyń massacre#poland#polska#soviet union#ussr#1940
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Barcelona street art
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Guardians
#barcelona#poblenou#catalunya#spain#street photography#xavier mascaro#guardians#art#public art#contemporary art
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The matchday programme - Leeds United v Sunderland 9/4/2024
#leeds united#lufc#elland road#football#soccer#joe gelhardt#programme#matchday programme#efl#championship#2024
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Leeds United: Meslier, Firpo, Ampadu, Kamara (Gnonto 71), Bamford (Piroe 82), Summerville, Rodon, James (Joseph 82), Gray (Roberts 82), Rutter, Gruev.
Subs not used: Darlow, Cresswell, Cooper, Anthony, Byram.
This was the fourth game in a row in which Leeds were nowhere near our best. The team still looks knackered and at times they seemed to be playing in slow motion.
Our attempts to get the ball forward were not just slow, but also too repetitive and predictable.
Time after time, Joe Rodon, Ethan Ampadu and Illan Meslier would pass the ball around amongst themselves for a while, before trying to get it to Crysencio Summerville or Georginio Rutter, who would inevitably try to take on several Sunderland players and end up losing the ball….
It was frustrating to watch us keep doing this, even when we got an opportunity to break forward quickly.
Leeds had more than 70% of the possession, but in terms of chances created the game was about even.
Daniel Farke also left his substitutions until very late in the game, which was difficult to understand, given the strength of his bench.
Leeds should have had a penalty for a blatant handball in the Sunderland box, which was not given, but we didn't really deserve to win the match….
After closing the gap on Ipswich and Leicester prior to the international break, we could have overtaken them over the last four games, because they've also dropped points. But the momentum we had built up has disappeared completely, and with only four games to go we're one point behind them both - and Leicester still have a game in hand.
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Salvador Dalí's house in Port lligat
#salvador dali#dali#Port lligat#cadaques#Cadaqués#catalunya#catalonia#spain#art#artwork#public art#2024
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Feeding the birds in Cadaqués....
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A little bit of Leeds in Cadaqués....
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