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Millions of Orientals saw Japan’s battle as their own, as a confrontation of race and color; they also saw in Japan’s victories their own liberation from Western domination.
“The accelerating Japanese success was unforeseen on both sides. A captured British Engineer officer told Colonel Tsuji he had expected the defenses in northern Malaya to hold out for at least three months. “As the Japanese Army had not beaten the weak Chinese Army after four years’ fighting in China we did not consider it a very formidable enemy.”
― The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945
― The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945
“When Communist Party chiefs in Russia went fishing, scuba divers plunged underwater and put fish on the hooks. When they went hunting, specially bred elk, stag, and deer were made to saunter across the field in point-blank range. Everyone had a wonderful time. When the king of Afghanistan visited the Tajik resort of Tiger Gorge, he blew away the last Turan tiger in the country.”
― Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
― Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
“Consequently, if one’s luck is bad, one is liable to be increasingly consumed by feelings of resentment toward the agent or agents that one holds responsible for one’s victimhood, and this twisting of one’s soul in bitterness is a form of damage that the acknowledgment of the real conditions of academic life could have helped one to avoid or, at the very least, mitigate.”
― The Vocation Lectures: Science as a Vocation & Politics as a Vocation
― The Vocation Lectures: Science as a Vocation & Politics as a Vocation
“The language’s two main advantages are its simplicity and flexibility. Its straightforward syntax and use of indented spaces make it easy to learn, read and share.”
― Uncommon Knowledge: the Economist Explains
― Uncommon Knowledge: the Economist Explains
“The Party justified its “dictatorship” through purity of faith. Their Scriptures were the teachings of Marxism-Leninism, regarded as a “scientific” truth. Since ideology was so important, every leader had to be—or seem to be—an expert on Marxism-Leninism, so that these ruffians spent their weary nights studying, to improve their esoteric credentials, dreary articles on dialectical materialism. It was so important that Molotov and Polina even discussed Marxism in their love letters: “Polichka my darling . . . reading Marxist classics is very necessary . . . You must read some more of Lenin’s works coming out soon and then a number of Stalin’s . . . I so want to see you.”
― Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
― Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
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