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    NEW QUESTION

    Due to the fact, that Simon's photograph can be found at the cover of the book about Marshall Shaposhnikov, I will be so free to post a new question for our quiz.

    WHO AM I :unsure: ?

    I knew Stalin personally.

    I had something to do with "Honi soit qui mal y pense".

    I - or a famous speech of me - had something to do with that person, who invented the submarine-boat and the naval steam-ship and who you can see at that picture:

    Best regards :beer:

    Christian

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    NEW QUESTION

    Due to the fact, that Simon's photograph can be found at the cover of the book about Marshall Shaposhnikov, I will be so free to post a new question for our quiz.

    WHO AM I :unsure: ?

    I knew Stalin personally.

    I had something to do with "Honi soit qui mal y pense".

    I - or a famous speech of me - had something to do with that person, who invented the submarine-boat and the naval steam-ship and who you can see at that picture:

    Best regards :beer:

    Christian

    Gentlemen,

    no one has an idea, who that very famous person in question might be :rolleyes: ?

    "Honi soit qui mal y pense."

    These strange words in (very old) French language have something to do with an (extraordinary!) high order our old fellow received in his late years.

    The "Steamship-Guy" is from the USA ;) .

    Best regards :beer:

    Christian

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    Christian:

    I googled in on the answer. It was a clever question. :beer:

    Simon

    P.S. Just like most events recently brought up on this thread, this one took place close to where I live. I must be living next to centers of Soviet military and political history :)

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    But he never received any Soviet awards did he? (Though his wife did. :P )

    Dear Ed,

    I think, that there had been an agreement among the "Big 3" - Churchill, Roosevelt & Stalin - NOT to exchange decorations among themselves. But the next level of hierarchy got the "full load" ;) :

    Montgomery & Eisenhower got their "Victories", Zhukov his GCB http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Bath , etc., etc.

    But Churchill got his Order of the Garter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Garter , which he probably liked more, than a "Victory" ;) .

    Best regards :beer:

    Christian

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    Churchill's Fulton-Speech

    Gentlemen,

    Churchill's famous speech at the 5th of march 1946 had been a reaction to Stalin's statement, he gave at a speech in Moscow in february 1946, that "world capitalism proceeds through crisis and the catastrophes of war". Well, who would say, that this statement is sooooo wrong ;) .

    O.K., Stalin's pragmatic statement was nothing new for educated economists & historians - similar statements you found already in the writings of Marx, Engels, Lenin, etc. -, but it seemed approbriate to start the new "Cold War" officially.

    Churchill's "Iron-Curtain-Speech" http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/churchill-iron.html had been the introduction of the "Cold War"-concept in the public.

    Actually the "Cold War" started with the death of President Roosevelt almost one year before Fulton, in my opinion.

    The "Cold War" ended in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the victory of the USA. Due to that historic fact, we are able to collect Soviet Orders & Medals :D .

    Best regards :beer:

    Christian

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    New question - from Christophe?

    I've been quite busy lately and I'm sorry for not saying anything. Also I have a great lack of inspiration at the moment an it would be a great relief if somebody would post a question instead of me.

    Ivan

    Gentlemen,

    I would suggest, that in this case, the founder of our quiz, Christophe from Paris, might post a new question.

    Best regards :beer:

    Christian

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    Thanks Christian for your support!!!! :P:beer:

    I'll do it with pleasure... but not tonight, unfortunately. So, if you think you can wait, its OK :rolleyes: . Otherwise, any candidate or volunteer for the next one will have my gratitude... :blush:

    Cheers.

    Ch.

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    Thanks Christian for your support!!!! :P:beer:

    I'll do it with pleasure... but not tonight, unfortunately. So, if you think you can wait, its OK :rolleyes: . Otherwise, any candidate or volunteer for the next one will have my gratitude... :blush:

    Cheers.

    Ch.

    Dear Christophe,

    it's "your" quiz - so we well wait for your appreciated question :beer:

    Best regards

    Christian

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    Dont forget though all property is theft :rolleyes:

    Comrade Vic

    Not collectively owned property, comrade, for it is now owned by the immoral misappropriation if the labor of others. This is no simple bourgeois property!

    (Yes, I have been re-reading the Manifesto!)

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    Socialism vs. Reality

    Dear Christophe,

    but it is your intellectual property :beer: .

    Best regards

    Christian

    Gentlemen,

    the owner of GMIC is citizen of the UK. So the UK-laws apply to our forum.

    So according to UK-laws the "quiz" is the intellectual property of Christophe, despite the scientific fact, that property is theft!

    The fact is, that the recent UK is NOT the former CCCP - maybe the UK will convert to the first true Socialist socitey in Europe ;) .

    BTW: 26 years ago, I wrote an article in an Austrian political magazine about the (very) left wing of the British Labour Party after a meeting with their politicians in London :D .

    "Ein Gespenst geht um in Europa - das Gespenst des Kommunismus. Alle M?chte des alten Europa haben sich zu einer heiligen Hetzjagd gegen dies Gespenst verb?ndet, der Papst und der Zar, Metternich und Guizot, franz?sische Radikale und deutsche Polizisten. Wo ist die Oppositionspartei, die nicht von ihren regierenden Gegnern als kommunistisch verschrien worden w?re, wo die Oppositionspartei, die den fortgeschritteneren Oppositionsleuten sowohl wie ihren reaktion?ren Gegnern den brandmarkenden Vorwurf des Kommunismus nicht zur?ckgeschleudert h?tte? Zweierlei geht aus dieser Tatsache hervor. Der Kommunismus wird bereits von allen europ?ischen M?chten als eine Macht anerkannt. Es ist hohe Zeit, da? die Kommunisten ihre Anschauungsweise, ihre Zwecke, ihre Tendenzen vor der ganzen Welt offen darlegen und dem M?rchen vom Gespenst des Kommunismus ein Manifest der Partei selbst entgegenstellen." (Karl Marx / Friedrich Engels - 1848)

    Best regards :beer:

    Christian

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