"Just Jeepin'" (macintux)
07/10/2019 at 19:50 • Filed to: Jeep
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"Just Jeepin'" (macintux)
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Revisiting and reposting : Motor Authority’s month of Jeep is over, and here are all of the stories.
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For Sweden
> Just Jeepin'
06/11/2019 at 20:54 |
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It’s time for a Jeep thread
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Just Jeepin'
> For Sweden
06/11/2019 at 20:56 |
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I was expecting that gif to have an unhappy ending.
AuthiCooper1300
> Just Jeepin'
06/12/2019 at 04:20 |
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I just read the last one (I’ll leave the rest for later). Not a bad feature, although I found two bits I am not terribly convinced about.
First of all, I doubt very much the Allies would leave “embedded in a damp forest” a “jeep with a blown engine”. If I remember correctly unusable jeeps were supposed to be destroyed to prevent them being c a p t u r e d a n d u s e d by the Axis. Obviously i n b a t t l e it was not always possible or practical to do so, but still.
Second,
[ . . . ] before the 1948 Marshall Plan was approved to financially prop up European economies and prevent heads of states from defecting behind the Iron Curtain [ . . . ]
What?
For starters, the writer has obviously no idea about what a “head of state” is (which is usually different from a a
head of gove
r
n
m
e
n
t
or a prime minister). In any case, can you imagine the royals of Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway and Greece, and the presidents of France, Italy and Austria scrambling postwar to get to Moscow asap? No, me neither.
A
n
d
I cannot picture the premiers of those countries being enamoured with the idea of serving under t
h
e
U
S
S
R
either.
My X-type is too a real Jaguar
> AuthiCooper1300
07/10/2019 at 20:10 |
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On the heads of state thing there was a legitimate power vaacuum and they
didn’t want Stalin sympathizers to fill that vacuum. Look at the history of Communist Party activities in Italy in the 50s, 60s and 70s, that will tell you how close a lot countries came to being Stalin Puppet states.
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AuthiCooper1300
> My X-type is too a real Jaguar
07/11/2019 at 06:07 |
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The spheres of influence of the West and the USSR had been clearly marked even before the end of the war,
d
u
ring
t
h
e
Yalta conference
. W
h
e
n
t
h
e
w
a
r
e
n
d
e
d
t
here was really no power vacuum
,
p
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t
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a
r
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n
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r
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p
e
.
There was, however, a terrible clash between right and left in Italy and Greece. In fact they both went through
b
l
o
o
d
y
civil wars nobody seems to remember nowadays.
A
n
d
l
e
t
’
s
n
o
t
even mention how the Italians felt
a
b
o
u
t
t
hei
r
m
o
n
a
r
c
h
y
after what
Vittor
i
o Emmanuele III
h
a
d
d
o
ne
,
h
e
nce
t
h
e
ir
c
h
o
o
s
i
ng
t
o be a rep
u
b
l
i
c.
T he I t a l i a n Communi s t s w e re never close to gain access to g o v e r nment, th r o u g h n a t ional elections or otherwise , but t h a t w a s n ot h o w t h e situation was p e r c e i ved by t h e U n i t ed S t a t es . M a y b e you are thinking o f left-wing terror in 70s Italy , a completely different subject w h i c h had nothing whatsoever to do with the PCI .
Interestingly the left
could
(albeit briefly) have s
e
i
z
e
d
power in France
i
n
1
9
4
4
. When Paris (or rather, the resistance, led by R
o
l
’
s
communists) finally rebelled against the Germans de Gaulle realised he needed to r
u
s
h
to Paris asa
p
–
and he had to convince Ike to divert
L
e
c
l
e
r
c
’
s
2nd Armored Division
. Freeing Paris had not a
t
a
l
l
been in the A
l
l
i
e
s
’
agend
a
a
t
t
h
e
time.
T
h
e greatest irony is that the
f
i
r
s
t
u
n
its
o
f
t
he
2
e
Divisi
o
n
B
l
i
n
d
ée
to enter Paris
w
e
r
e
S
p
a
n
i
a
r
d
s
w
h
o
h
a
d
f
l
e
d
t
h
e
i
r country after the civil war, but that’
s
another s
t
o
r
y.