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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Silverskunk, post: 26202331, member: 172230&quot;]I was at Rhein-Main for a month long TDY, well a bit longer, back in &#039;78 and then it was back to Incirlick. Speaking of the Ottoman Turks they marched over a million Armenians into the wastelands to die, or they shot them into ditches, between 1915 to 1917. They were still real beauts while I was there under Martial Law.</p><p><br /></p><p>Stalin marched many thousands of Polish Army officers, Police Officers, and Intelligentsia, and Jews, into the Katyn forest and murdered them in a series of massacres in 1939 after he partitioned Poland with Hitler and both invaded.</p><p><br /></p><p>He either sent entire populations into Siberian Hell holes from Ukraine or he outright starved them to death after WW2. During Mao Zedong&#039;s Great Leap Forward, 1958-1962, the CCP starved to death up to 55 million Chinese when they collectivized the farming system from personal ownership of farm land to entirely state owned and operated. Both Mao and Stalin saw the owners of private farm plots as enemies of the state so they stripped them of land rights, wealth, and often life.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1493 Pope Alexander Vl issued a Papal Bull that split the entire world in two giving both Spain and Portugal 1/2 of the globe to enslave and exploit, rob them of their riches, often murder the locals, all as long as they spread the Catholic faith. The Priests thus marched arm in arm with the conquistadors as they ruthlessly stole the riches of most of the world and took control of the rich trade routes by force of arms. The Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494 further ratified the looting and enslavement of the non-Catholic world.</p><p><br /></p><p>Later the British Empire became the biggest slave traders in history. They dominated the Trans Atlantic slave trade up until they lost the North American continent and even when they ended the slave trade in the western hemisphere in what was left of their holdings in the Caribbean, which they only did because the market was glutted, they forced the slaves to remain slaves for a 3 year period and then reimbursed the slave owners and not a farthing went to the slaves. Whom even when supposedly free were forced to work at slave wages in the huge sugar plantations.</p><p><br /></p><p>In Asia the slave trade went on and the British East India company ravaged and exploited the riches of Asia, even fielding a private army twice the size of the Crown. And it became so huge and profitable it became a threat to the Crown and was only tolerated due to the riches it sent home to England.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway you get the picture I&#039;m sure. If we only collected coins from those Politically correct we&#039;d own pretty much nothing in the form of coinage. By collecting coinage of the Third Reich we are bearing witness to one of many atrocities thru history and we should be doing so without judgement despite the disgust we feel for the various regimes that struck them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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