harllatham: Британский "Потемкин"

harllatham
2024-05-22 15:37 (ссылка)

In the Soviet Union, Wincott was given the status of a hero and received VIP treatment. Soviet propaganda elevated him to a symbol of the British working class, struggling for their rights. He settled in Leningrad where he joined the Anglo-American section of the International Seamen's Club. His job here was to indoctrinate Western crew members on shore leave into the virtues of Communism. During the Second World War he survived through the nearly 900 days Siege of Leningrad, but shortly after the war his luck ran out.
In 1946, he was accused of being a British spy and duly arrested by the NKVD. After a show trial he was sentenced to a long term in the Gulag. At one time he was in the same labour camp as Victor Louis.[6] After spending nearly eleven years in labour camps he was only rehabilitated during the onset of Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinisation campaign in 1956. After his release, he became a friend of Donald Maclean and contributed articles for the Anglo-Soviet Friendship Society magazine.
Apart from a visit to England in 1974 Wincott spent the rest of his life in the Soviet Union. He met and married his fourth wife in the Gulag and he died in Moscow in January 1983. According to his last wishes, his ashes were scattered over Devonport Harbour.

(Ответить)

	harllatham 2024-05-22 15:59 (ссылка)
	Ленин умер 21 января 1924, а на следующий день Макдональдс стал премьер-министром. Савпадение7 (Ответить) (Ветвь дискуссии)

harllatham
2024-05-22 16:00 (ссылка)

At the 1923 election, the Conservatives had lost their majority, and when they lost a vote of confidence in the House in January 1924, King George V called on MacDonald to form a minority Labour government, with the tacit support of the Liberals under Asquith from the corner benches. On 22 January 1924, he took office as the first Labour Prime Minister

(Ответить) (Уровень выше) (Ветвь дискуссии)

Ненавидел жидов и комуняк: норм социалист

harllatham
2024-05-22 16:01 (ссылка)

At the 1922 election, Labour replaced the Liberals as the main opposition party to the Conservative government of Stanley Baldwin, making MacDonald Leader of the Opposition. By now, he had moved away from the Labour left and abandoned the socialism of his youth: he strongly opposed the wave of radicalism that swept through the labour movement in the wake of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and became a determined enemy of Communism

(Ответить) (Уровень выше)

harllatham
2024-05-22 16:03 (ссылка)

In 1922, MacDonald visited Palestine. In a later account of his visit, he contrasted Zionist pioneers with 'the rich plutocratic Jew'. MacDonald believed the latter "was the true economic materialist. He is the person whose views upon life make one anti-Semitic. He has no country, no kindred. Whether as a sweater or a financier, he is an exploiter of everything he can squeeze. He is behind every evil that Governments do, and his political authority, always exercised in the dark, is greater than that of Parliamentary majorities. He is the keenest of brains and the bluntest of consciences. He detests Zionism because it revives the idealism of his race, and has political implications which threaten his economic interests"

(Ответить) (Уровень выше)

	harllatham 2024-05-22 16:13 (ссылка)
	Устроил Освальда Мосли на работу в кабинет министров (Ответить) (Уровень выше)

	harllatham 2024-05-22 16:23 (ссылка)
	He went to Rome in March 1933 to facilitate Nazi Germany's return to the concert of European powers and to continue the policy of appeasement. (Ответить) (Уровень выше)

harllatham
2024-05-22 16:07 (ссылка)

Занятно, лейборы по сути въехали в палату общин на спине либералов
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladstone%E2%80%93MacDonald_pact
-- чтобы в результате их оттуда вытеснить:
The real significance of the 1924 election was that the Liberal Party, which Labour had displaced as the second-largest political party in 1922, was now clearly the third party.

(Ответить) (Уровень выше)

	harllatham 2024-05-22 16:19 (ссылка)
	1931-35 National Government's huge majority left MacDonald with the largest mandate ever won by a British Prime Minister at a democratic election, but MacDonald had only a small following of National Labour men in Parliament. He was ageing rapidly, and was increasingly a figurehead. (Ответить) (Уровень выше) (Ветвь дискуссии)

harllatham
2024-05-22 16:25 (ссылка)

By 1934 MacDonald's mental and physical health declined further, and he became an increasingly ineffective leader as the international situation grew more threatening. His speeches in the House of Commons and at international meetings became incoherent. One observer noted how "Things... got to the stage where nobody knew what the Prime Minister was going to say in the House of Commons, and, when he did say it, nobody understood it". Newspapers did not report MacDonald denying to reporters that he was seriously ill because he only had "loss of memory". His pacifism, which had been widely admired in the 1920s, led Winston Churchill and others to accuse him of failure to stand up to the threat of Adolf Hitler. His government began the negotiations for the Anglo-German Naval Agreement.

(Ответить) (Уровень выше)