{"id":1199,"date":"2018-06-01T08:39:21","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T12:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stockpicks4you.com\/?p=1199"},"modified":"2018-06-01T09:06:38","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T13:06:38","slug":"solzhenitsyn-on-the-great-man-of-wwii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockpicks4you.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/01\/solzhenitsyn-on-the-great-man-of-wwii\/","title":{"rendered":"Solzhenitsyn On the &#8220;Great Men&#8221; of WWII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Solzhenitsyn was not a fan of Roosevelt and Churchill. From <em>The Gulag Archipelago<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;In their own country, Roosevelt and Churchill are honored as embodiment&#8217;s of statesmanlike wisdom. To us, in our Russian prison conversations, their consistent shortsightedness and stupidity stood out as astonishingly obvious&#8230; what was the military or political sense in their surrendering to destruction at Stalin&#8217;s hands hundreds of thousands of armed Soviet citizens determined not to surrender.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On Churchill handing over of the Cossacks:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;He [Churchill] turned over the Soviet command the Cossack corps of 90,000 men. Along with them he also handed over many wagon loads of old people, women, and children&#8230;This great hero, monuments to whom will in time cover all England, ordered that they, too, be surrendered to their deaths.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Victors write the history books. Read <a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/library\/great-wars-and-great-leaders-libertarian-rebuttal\">this<\/a> for another view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solzhenitsyn was not a fan of Roosevelt and Churchill. From The Gulag Archipelago: &#8220;In their own country, Roosevelt and Churchill are honored as embodiment&#8217;s of statesmanlike wisdom. To us, in our Russian prison conversations, their consistent shortsightedness and stupidity stood out as astonishingly obvious&#8230; what was the military or political sense in their surrendering to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stockpicks4you.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/01\/solzhenitsyn-on-the-great-man-of-wwii\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Solzhenitsyn On the &#8220;Great Men&#8221; of WWII<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wXzO-jl","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockpicks4you.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockpicks4you.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockpicks4you.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockpicks4you.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockpicks4you.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stockpicks4you.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1203,"href":"https:\/\/stockpicks4you.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions\/1203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockpicks4you.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockpicks4you.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockpicks4you.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}