Im looking to move to manchester with my fiancee any ideas on safe areas, and house prices?

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Im looking to move to manchester with my fiancee any ideas on safe areas, and house prices?

Answer 1

THE SOVIETS REBUILD THEIR DEVASTATED COUNTRY.

"I remember, how during the war - I was only a child then - the Germans came to

our house in Donetsk. And they beat my father... they beat him with a rod... But

we do not want to be beaten. No, we refuse to be beaten! One feature of the

history of old Russia was the continual beatings she suffered because of her

backwardness... She was beaten by the British and French capitalists... All beat

her because of her backwardness, military backwardness, political backwardness,

agricultural backwardness, they beat her because to do so was profitable and

could be done with impunity."

(Soviet worker from the Donetsk coal mining region quoting Russian history.) (1)

(1)See:John Summers "The Red and the Black." Progress Publishers. Moscow 1979.

"On 21st June... At about 4 am the bombs came down on the town and in another

half hour we were engaged in furious combat with a German airborne landing on

the outskirts of our town. None of us knew at the time, nor could we know, that

1,418 days and nights would have to pass before we wreaked vengeance on the

fascist sadists for the havoc they caused our peaceful nation, for the tears of

our mothers and children."

(Sergei Gvazov, Kiev.) (2)

(2)See:Carey Schofield (Ed) "Russia at War 1941-45." Stanley Paul. London 1987.

"Never again will capital invade our country in any shape or form."

(Stalin.)

Tricked, betrayed, attacked and constantly threatened by the capitalist world

for daring to overthrow the capitalist system and taking the means of production

and political power into their own hands; can the Soviet people be blamed for

saying: "NIET!" - that never again will foreign aggressors intrude upon Soviet

soil or will Soviet mothers cry for lost sons? - That "never again will capital

invade our country in any shape or form."?

The Soviet Union emerged from the war with tremendous influence and

international prestige. The Soviet people's victory over n**i Germany had shown

the world the economic, political, ideological, industrial and military

superiority of united socialist society:

"A nation in which the majority of workers and peasants realise that they are

fighting for their own Soviet power, for the rule of the working people - such a

nation can never be vanquished."

(Lenin.)

When Hitler attacked the USSR in 1941 the very existence of Britain and the rest

of the world, including the US, depended on the Soviet Union's ability to

survive:

"The American people should remember that they were on the brink of disaster in

1942. If the Soviet Union had failed to hold on its front, the Germans would

have been in a position to conquer Great Britain. They would have been able to

overrun Africa, too, and in this event they could have established a foothold in

Latin America. The impending danger was constantly in President Roosevelt's

mind."

(US Secretary of State, Stettinius.) (3)

(3) E.R.Stettinius "Roosevelt and the Russians." Jonathan Cape. London 1950.

"I find it difficult this spring and summer to get away from the fact that the

Russian armies are killing more Axis personnel and destroying more Axis material

than all the other twenty-five united nations put together."

(US President Roosevelt, May 1942, in New York Times Oct 20 1955.) (1)

(1) See:Michael Howard "Grand Strategy." Vol IV. Aug 1942-Sept 1943. HMSO.

London 1972.

Hollywood and the history books play down, or more usually completely ignore the

decisive role of the Soviet Union in the Second World War.

In July 1941, 196 German divisions were fighting on the Soviet front, while only

eight were fighting on all other fronts. Germany lost 13.6 million troops in

World War Two - 10 million of these in the war with the Soviet Union. Most of

the war was fought by the Soviet people; not by John Wayne or Frank Sinatra.

Many irresponsible Western sources attempt to discredit Soviet production by

playing up the importance of wartime Lend Lease supplies as "saving" the Soviet

Union's neck. Nothing could be more hatefully untrue.

"To the end of the war the Russians managed to supply the great bulk of the

fighting tools: 92.5 per cent of the planes used; 91.5 per cent of the tanks,

98.5 per cent of the artillery; 95.5 per cent of the shells, 94.5 per cent of

the cartridges and 100 per cent of the rifles."

(British historian D.F.Fleming.) (2)

(2) D.F. Fleming "The Cold War and its Origins." Doubleday. London 1961.

See also:R.Palme Dutt "Problems of Contemporary History." Lawrence and Wishart.

London 1963..

Lend Lease supplies accounted for less than 5 percent of the USSR's war

production needs; such as 12 percent of its aircraft, 10 percent of its tanks

and armour, and less than 3 percent of its ordinance and other supplies. Even

so, Soviet soldiers were grateful for Lend Lease supplies, even the tins of

"Second Front" corned beef. And Lend Lease was no "gift" to the Soviet people.

British and US companies profited from it. The Soviet people paid in ships

returned loaded with valuable raw materials for the Western allies.

#The people of the USSR paid a heavy price for the destruction of German

fascism. Two in every five people killed in World War Two were Soviet citizens.

The material damage amounted to 485,000,000,000 dollars. Suffering such losses,

the Soviet Union not only freed itself, but 113,000,000 other Europeans from

Fascism. Such is the debt owed to the Soviet people that Western war films,

history books, children's war magazines and comics, and other propaganda

irresponsibly and callously ignore.

On December 18 1940 Hitler signed Directive 21: his "Plan Barbarossa".

Unlike elsewhere in Europe, and following his intentions as stated in his

"Barbarossa" plan, Hitler's policy in the USSR was to destroy everything,

especially industry.

Western propagandists try to say that the Red Army did not demobilise after the

war. But this is a lie. For one thing, the manpower was needed for the vast

reconstruction of the Soviet Union; so much had been destroyed. The Soviet

people after the war were back almost to the position they were in just after

the revolution. They had nothing; no farms, no homes, no industry, nothing;

nothing.but devastation everywhere:

"The immediate object of my journey was to estimate the damage caused by war and

examine the Soviet steps towards reconstruction. My ultimate object to gain an

impression of the kind of human beings that the past two and a half decades had

produced in the Soviet Union...

My diary, written minute by minute during seven hours' low level flight, reads

with monotonous regularity: 'trenches, more trenches, tank trenches, shell

holes, broken bridge, smashed cottages, destroyed village'. - Seventy thousand

villages were destroyed; 1,135 coal pits; 3,000 oil wells; 61 large power

stations; 27 iron and steel works; 749 engineering plants; 66 chemical

factories; 40,000 miles of railway track; 15,800 locomotives; 428,000 wagons;

4,100 railway stations; 1,400 ships; 137,000 tractors; 4,000,000 ploughs; 49,000

combine harvesters; 1,500,000 homes; 9,000,000 head of cattle; 12,000,000 pigs;

13,000,000 sheep and goats..."

(Dean of Canterbury Rev. Hewlett Johnson, in his autobiography "Searching for

Light.")

The figures available at the time of Hewlett Johnson's visit just after the war

were estimates made at the end of the war. More detailed statistics were

revealed later after a more thorough investigation was made.

All this was Hitler's policy of trying to make sure that the material economic

base of socialism would be destroyed for ever and could not be rebuilt.

All this had to be replaced before any advances could be made in the Soviet

economy and the Soviet people's standard of living. And it had to be done with

20 million pairs of hands less than they had before the war. There were also 17

million war widows and millions of orphans to be taken care of. Throughout the

USSR after the war, in some villages not one man returned from the fighting, and

it was the Soviet women who rose from trenches or holes in the ground under the

the rubble.

The Soviets, as always, had only the power of their labour with which to rebuild

their economy and to rebuild their destroyed cities and industries. And all they

required from the West in order to do this was peace.

The West, on the other hand, had all kinds of help; such as Marshall Aid. And

more importantly: nobody was threatening them. The West even naively thought of

calling upon God to provide the world with peace. But the Soviets were under no

such illusions:

"Molotov told us the following story of his (Stalin's) recent meeting with

Churchill:

"Says Churchill - 'We must have the Pope on our side, he would be a valuable

ally.'

"Says Stalin - 'How many divisions does he command?'"

(Daily Herald April 5 1945.) (1)

However, in spite of the West's predictions, by 1948 Soviet production was

already back to its pre-war level. By 1950 it was 48 percent above this level,

and agricultural production was 27 percent higher than 1940, and food rationing

had stopped long before it had stopped in Britain.

The West had learned nothing about the Soviet people during the war:

"We didn't anticipate the revolution; when it occurred, we didn't think it would

succeed; when it was successful, we thought socialism was going to be abandoned;

when it wasn't, we thought we wouldn't have to recognise the new Soviet State;

when we did, we acted first as if it was like the Western democrac

Answer 2

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