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  • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlReal
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    6 days ago

    This is how Wisława Szymborska, literature Nobel laureate for poetry, wrote about death of Stalin, of course now she is bashed for it:

    TEN DZIEŃ (THIS DAY)

    Jeszcze dzwonek, ostry dzwonek w uszach brzmi.
    Kto u progu? Z jaką wieścią, i tak wcześnie?
    Nie chcę wiedzieć. Może ciągle jestem we śnie.
    Nie podejdę, nie otworzę drzwi.

    Czy to ranek na oknami, mroźna skra
    tak oślepia, że dokoła patrzę łzami?
    Czy to zegar tak zadudnił sekundami.
    Czy to moje własne serce werbel gra?

    Póki nikt z was nie wypowie pierwszych słów,
    brak pewności jest nadzieją, towarzysze…
    Milczę. Wiedzą, że to czego nie chcę słyszeć -
    muszę czytać z pochylonych głów.

    Jaki rozkaz przekazuje nam
    na sztandarach rewolucji profil czwarty?
    Pod sztandarem rewolucji wzmacniać warty!
    Wzmocnić warty u wszystkich bram!

    Oto Partia - ludzkości wzrok.
    Oto Partia: siła ludów i sumienie.
    Nic nie pójdzie z jego życia w zapomnienie.
    Jego Partia rozgarnia mrok.

    Niewzruszony drukarski znak
    drżenia ręki mej piszącej nie przekaże,
    nie wykrzywi go ból, łza nie zmaże.
    A to słusznie. A to nawet lepiej tak."










  • The US only joined the war opportunistically and because Japan was stupid enough to drag them into it.

    Not to defend Japan, they had it coming, but that part of WW2 was provoked by US as 100% classic interimperialist war for at least West Pacific and maybe even entire East Asia (and in fact Lenin predicted it in 1918, although he predicted it way earlier than it really erupted). At the point US embargoed Japan, it was already fully invested in genocidal brutal war against China and had war materials for half year with zero possibility to disentangle itself.

    So they had only two choices: dismantling of their empire which was absolutely unacceptable to them and would probably end up with remnants being swallowed by US anyway or maybe even to face very angry China while having no supplies for armed forces, or take the resources by force which meant conquering Dutch colonies and in this case war with UK and USA was also certain, so their decision to go va banque was basically the rational option, and while it was noted back then by some like admiral Yamamoto to be suicidal, it proven to be less suicidal than alternative, especially that the Japanese nationalism was preserved by USA and is now surfacing itself in even stupider form.

    And fuck them, good riddance, but USA had only imperialist motivation for that war and indeed ended up gobbling basically entire Pacific and their own Mare Nostrum in the process, the only thing stopping them even a little was USSR and China.