Famous Europeans of the 20th Century

   Europeans piss me off something awful.
   These sophisticates, who have an infinite capacity for forgiveness (of themselves), regularly castigate Americans as intellectually-challenged troglodytes lacking the savoir faire to practice the delicate, nuanced, diplomacy essential in international matters, an ability that Europeans, with 30 centuries of “Civilization” under their belts including several thousand wars, the Spanish Inquisition, the Crusades, a few dozen genocides, a few hundred pogroms, and the conquest, colonization, and bleeding of most of the undeveloped world, are born with in their DNA,.
   Put aside the two World Wars — after all, they only cost a few hundred million easily replaceable civilian lives, wiped out two generations of young men, turned half the continent into a bombed-out ash heap, came close to annihilating an entire race of humanity, and squandered the wealth and resources of millennia of human endeavor. Instead, let’s examine a sampling of the cream of 20th Century European leadership
    In alphabetical order by country:

Albania
     Enver Hoxha (Communist dictator 1944-85: )
Austria
    Kurt Waldheim (United Nations Secretary General 1972-1981, president of Austria 1986-1992. Liar, former Wehrmacht officer, participant in war crimes, popular politician)
    Adolf Hitler (see Germany)
Bulgaria
    Todor Zhivkov, (Communist dictator 1954-89)
Croatia
    Ante Pavelic (Head of the “Independent State of Croatia” 1941-45, puppet of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany)
East Germany
    Walter Ulbricht (Communist dictator 1950-73. Hard-line Stalinist, ordered construction of the Berlin Wall)
France
    Henri Philippe Petain (Marshall of the French army, head of state 1940-44, Nazi collaborator.. Sentenced to death for treason, died in prison 1951)
    Pierre Laval (Prime minister 1931-32, 1935-36. Head of  the Nazi puppet regime in Vichy 1942-45. Executed for high treason 1945)
Germany
    Adolf Hitler (Fuhrer of Nazi Germany 1934-45, instigator of World War II, mass murderer, drug addict, perpetrator of genocide, popular hero)
    Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels, Herman Goering, Martin Bormann, Adolph Eichmann, Joseph Mengele, Albert Speer, etc., etc., etc. (degenerates, thieves, co-conspirators in genocide, employers of slave labor, drug addicts, cowards, perverts, sadists, perpetrators of crimes against humanity, loyal Germans)
Hungary
    Matyas Rakosi (Communist dictator 1945-56. Murderer, hard-line Stalinist)
Italy
    Benito Mussolini (Fascist dictator, 1922-43, Nazi ally)
Norway
    Vidkun Quisling (Minister-President 1942 -1945, Nazi collaborator and traitor. Executed by firing squad in 1945)
Poland
    Wojciech Jaruzelski (Communist military leader, prime minister, president: Helped crush Prague Spring in 1968. Participated in purge of Jews from Polish army. Suppressed Lech Walesa’s Solidarity movement. Honored by Vladimir Putin in 2005. Currently charged with crimes including unlawful imprisonment.)
Portugal
    Antonio de Oliveira Salazar (Fascist dictator 1932-68)
Romania 
    Nicolae Ceausescu (Communist dictator 1965-89. Executed for crimes against the state and genocide)
Russia/USSR
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Communist dictator 1917-24. Mass murderer, torturer, terrorist, popular hero)
    Joseph Stalin (Communist dictator 1924-53. Mass murderer, sadist, terrorist, torturer, popular hero)
    Lavrenti Beria (Head of Soviet Secret Police, Mass murderer, sadist, executed in 1963 by his fellow mass murderers and sadists)
    Leonid Brezhnev (Communist dictator 1964-82. Crushed Prague Spring in 1968, drug addict, neo-Stalinist)
Spain
    Francisco Franco (Fascist dictator 1939-75)
Yugoslavia/Serbia
    Josip Broz Tito (Communist dictator 1945-80)
    Slobodan Milosevic (President 1989-2000. Died in prison while awaiting sentencing for crimes against humanity)
    Radovan Karadzic (Serbian political leader 1992-96, indicted for atrocities, war crimes, and ethnic cleansing)

    Well, what the hell — with such an illustrious and ever-growing roster of world-class statesmen to their credit, perhaps Europeans can be forgiven for looking down their noses at the US and its ragtag crew of incompetents — Franklin Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Ronald Reagan, George Marshall, Dwight Eisenhower, Harry Truman, John Kennedy, Dean Acheson, John Foster Dulles, Teddy Roosevelt, Henry Kissinger, William Fulbright, and a few more..

Norm Mack, Peterborough, dog@myfairpoint.net

 

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