Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The joy of actual numbers, was Democracy Date: 14 Nov 2024 00:30:41 GMT Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <60e3e4df-01a8-0694-d5e4-5fe355b9c7f5@example.net> <1eafaa8b-4f90-6b2a-a08b-9a10931eef31@example.net> <6733c013@news.ausics.net> <87wmh6n21a.fsf@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net oTN8RlQkosc/oDAaaAsbHApf/JvSCbJhAOvsYEOeqgl+urMSZK Cancel-Lock: sha1:ahXupSZL3G9+pVsy0bf//JEV7W8= sha256:xPXTS5arNCRNciMQPsHQjN858OhNd6K88PAFwrDDR5E= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:228898 comp.os.linux.misc:60972 On Wed, 13 Nov 2024 13:32:01 -1000, Lynn Wheeler wrote: > US assistant SECTREAS Harry Dexter White was operating on behalf of the > Soviet Union and Stalin sends White a draft of demands for US to present > to Japan that would provoke Japan into attacking US and drawing US into > the war, Soviets were already fighting Germany nearly alone and wanted > to preclude an attack by Japan. https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/lady-death-red-army- lyudmila-pavlichenko Pavlichenko did her best and even with her BFF Eleanor Roosevelt couldn't get the machinery to move any faster. It wasn't that FDR wasn't trolling but Hitler wasn't biting on his stinky old bait. Japan finally went for the shashimi.