" But he is a hero of yours, one of the "men of the gun" from 1916 "
I suppose somebody who refuses to back anything up with evidence can say what they please about anything so I won't bother erquesting yu to produce a single statement of mine praising Dev
The "men with the guns were the same ar those who took up arms against the various predatory Empires and eventually kicked their areses back to where they belonged" India, Cyprus, Kenya..... whichever till Britain had its grubby little hand
Dev was never one of those - he was always happy to let others do the dirty work - Collins being a cse in point.
"you were so proud about being photographed under? "
Same as point one - you
won't produce my sayin I was "proud" of any such thing - I stated the facts about the photograph to illustrate how Stalin was regarded by Britain as a whole
When did you become divorced from reality anf honesty, or where you never married to it?
"Think that we have shown that Salazar was NOT a fascist in any sense of the word."
Wki entry
After the Portuguese coup d'état of 28 May 1926, Salazar entered public life with the support of President Óscar Carmona, initially as finance minister and later as prime minister. Opposed to democracy, communism, socialism, anarchism and liberalism, the ideology of Portugal was conservative and nationalist in nature under his rule. Salazar also promoted Catholicism, but argued that the role of the Church was social, not political, and negotiated the Concordat of 1940. One of the mottos of the Salazar regime was "Deus, Pátria e Familia" (meaning "God, Fatherland, and Family").[1]
"What proof is there that Margaret Thatcher even knew Augusto Pinochet in 1973? "
Who on earth said she did ?
"By Julie Hyland
9 October 1999
The highlight of the past week's Conservative Party conference was a packed meeting on Wednesday evening addressed by former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, entitled "General Pinochet: the only political prisoner in Britain".
In a hall bedecked with Chilean flags, Thatcher was flanked by two Chilean senators, former chancellor Norman Lamont and Pinochet's son, Marco Antonio. Met by rapturous applause, she decried the extradition proceedings against the former dictator as "international lynch law", "judicial kidnap" and the equivalent of a "police state".
The case against Pinochet was a "Marxist" plot, Thatcher claimed. "The left can't forgive" Pinochet for defeating communism and successfully transforming Chile into a model free market economy, she continued, and were taking revenge on one of “Britain's greatest friends”.
Thatcher had not addressed a Tory Party conference for nine years. That she used the occasion to make such an outspoken defence of a fascist dictator epitomised the lurch to the right witnessed throughout the conference. On every front, Thatcher loyalists dominated proceedings and advanced policies that went further than those implemented by her government, prior to her fall from leadership in 1990."
That's my good deef for the day
I'm off
Jim Carroll