When I woke up this morning, all seemed most happily auspicious--the temperatures moderate, a slight bit of snow, with promise of the sun bestowing its gace on the Sandhills of Nebraska later. At peace with the world and all in it, I made some coffee and went to read the cousin.
Which was probably a mistake; it backhoed the whole day.
nadinbrzezinski (129,857 posts) Wed Feb 19, 2014, 02:28 PM
13. There we are seeing a possible split
Between the army and the police, these are echoes of both the 1905 uprising and the Russian Revolution. (Ukraine was part of the Empire and it's bread basket)
In 1905 the Navy sided with the rebels. Why the Navy was never trusted by the Soviets. In 1917 the army broke for the people while the police was still breaking skulls. Army units formed the first Soviets, (people's councils). As the civil war broke the army did as well. It was between the white forces under Alexandr Kerensky and the Red Forces.
Piece of trivia US Forces landed in Sebastopol in support of White Forces. So yes, we technically invaded mother Russia. Oh and Kerensky died penniless in NYC in the 1920
Alexander Kerensky, leader of the short-lived provisional government in Russia--the one in between the tsar and Lenin, about six months in 1917--died a very old man in New York City in 1970, reasonably affluent.
<<<didn't even have to nadin this; knew it.
Geezuz, the cousin makes me weep in her abysmal knowledge about
anything.
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The cousin alleges herself to be a "trained historian"--whatever that is--but throughout the years of reading her, one gets the impression she's not even knowledgeable as a litter-picker-up.
The danger is that some might find her credible in such things, because after all, she has a "Russian-sounding" last name (actually, to those of us who know things, it's a Polish-sounding last name).
.....based on a Russian History course taken in graduate school.....
^^^appears to be the extent of her knowledge of Russian history.
<<<apparently took more college courses on the history of
Barbados, than the cousin ever took on the history of Russia.
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A digression with another piece of trivia, of which the cousin's probably not aware--Prince Yosupuffsky or whatever his name was (no, I'm not going to bother nadining it), the murderer of Gregory Rasputin in 1916, lived clear until 1976 or 1978 (again, no, I'm not going to bother nadining it)--it wasn't only the pals of Lenin and Stalin who lived to great ages.
And American forces seeking to preserve democracy in Russia (and of course, failing) landed
not in southern Ukraine but in the European Arctic. Those allied troops landing in Crimea were French, Polish, and Greek.....
<<<as an untrained historian, didn't have to nadin any of that stuff; it came right off the top of the head.
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The cousin makes me vomitous, alleging to know something about history.
It's like a case some years ago, where she alleged it was "obstructionist Republicans" who kept some New Deal measure from being enacted into law in 1937.
In 1937-1939, Republicans held 17 of 96 seats in the U.S. Senate and 89 of 435 seats in the House of Representatives; I don't think the Republicans could obstruct a damned thing.
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The cousin may get things right once in a while--such as the date of the Norman Invasion of England or the date of the Declaration of Independence--but it's always better to check with a second source.
^^^knows history ^^^don't know shit about history
