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Czarist War, Communist Peace

Universal Peace And Justice | 01.12.2012 21:28 | Anti-militarism | History | Workers' Movements | Cambridge | London

anticommunist war propaganda in the 1930's

Hollywood through a division of Warner Brothers cast Leslie Howard as the hero in a 1930's film called "British Agent" despite the fact that his function was to continue the war of loanshark capitalism between the militaristic Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany and imperial colonizers Britain and France and to attempt to dissuade the new Communist government from declaring peace with Germany.

Howard wanted the continued slaughter of Russian, British and French men and was upset that with the new Soviet Union's withdrawal, more pressure would be placed by Germany against France and England. Czar Nicholas had caused 1.7 million Russians to die in battle while Clemenceau and others in France caused 1.3 million deaths. The czar caused 4.9 million men to be wounded while France had 4.3 million wounded men.. The UK lost nearly a million men.

This capitalist war would end with extremely harsh reparations for Germany, reparations which planted the seeds of World War II. Millions of men died in fratricidal idiocy.

In World War II, Germany would again war with the Soviet Union, which lost 26 million people in ridding the world of Nazi racism and brutality.

Despite chickenhawk radio jocks' frequent attempts to ridicule France's participation in WW2, the French had more casualties than the US.

Footnote:

 http://secondworldwar.co.uk lists the following WW2 deaths 61 million

Soviet Union* 8,668,000 16,900,000 25,568,000 China 1,324,000 10,000,000 11,324,000 Germany 3,250,000 3,810,000 7,060,000 Poland 850,000 6,000,000 6,850,000 Japan 1,506,000 300,000 1,806,000 Yugoslavia 300,000 1,400,000 1,700,000 Rumania* 520,000 465,000 985,000 France* 340,000 470,000 810,000 Hungary* 750,000 Austria 380,000 145,000 525,000 Greece* 520,000 Italy 330,000 80,000 410,000 Czechoslovakia 400,000 Great Britain 326,000 62,000 388,000 USA 295,000 295,000 Holland 14,000 236,000 250,000 Belgium 10,000 75,000 85,000 Finland 79,000 79,000 Canada 42,000 42,000 India 36,000 *** 36,000 Australia 39,000 39,000 Spain** 12,000 10,000 22,000 Bulgaria 19,000 2,000 21,000 New Zealand 12,000 12,000 South Africa 9,000 9,000 Norway 5,000 5,000 Denmark 4,000 4,000

First World War Casualties

 http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/FWWcasualties.htmne



Country . Men mobilised .Killed .Wounded .POW’s + missing .Total casualties

. casualties in % of men mobilised



Russia
12 million
1.7mill
4.9mill
2.5mill
9.15mill
76.3%

France

8.4 mill
1.3mill
4.2mill
537,000
6.1mill
73.3%

GB + Empire
8.9mill
908,000
2mill
191,000
3.1mill
35.8
Italy

5.5mill
650,000
947,000
600,000
2.1mill
39

USA

4.3mill
126,000
234,000
4,500
350,000
8

Japan

800,000
300
900
3
1210
0.2

Romania

750,000
335,000
120,000
80,000
535,000
71

Serbia

700,000
45,000
133,000
153,000
331,000
47

Belgium

267,000
13,800
45,000
34,500
93,000

35

Greece

230,000
5000
21,000
1000
27,000
12

Portugal

100,000
7222
13,700
12,000
33,000
33

Total Allies

42million
5 million
13million
4 million
22million
52%


Germany

11million
1.7million
4.2million
1.1million
7.1million
65

Austria

7.8million
1.2million
3.6million
2.2million
7 million
90

Turkey

2.8million
325,000
400,000
250,000
975,000
34

Bulgaria

1.2million
87,000
152,000
27,000
266,000
22

Total
Central Powers

22.8mill
3.3million
8.3million
3.6million
15 million

67


Total 65 million mobilized..

8.5 million killed

21 million wounded

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