I understand Mr Match's remarks but I think he is looking for confrontation on this issue where none is necessary. Perhaps he is on the wrong website. It really is stretching it a bit to imply that Ian is a National Socialist sympathiser on the basis of the homage he rendered fallen FJ on the 60th anniversary of their greatest battle.
Yes, many Allied soldiers died fighting Nazism and defending 'freedom'. I think we are all aware of that. Many members of this forum have served in various wars defending 'freedom' and some of us lost friends. This is all very well but what has Europe done with its 'freedom' in the past 58 years? OK...so nobody is coming to take us away at 3 am to kill us for disagreeing with their policies - unless you live in the Basque country, Ulster, Corsica and most of the Balkans - but the place is falling to pieces because we have squandered this freedom...or allowed the political class to squander it for us.
By the way, Leros is a bit further from Crete than you think, Mr Match. And its capture during Operation Leopard didn't involve a fifty-five day siege, as such. It was captured as the result of an extremely well-planned and well-executed airborne and seaborne invasion and then some very fierce fighting by German troops against vastly superior Allied forces. I suppose my admiration for the German soldiers who captured Leros makes me a Nazi in your eyes, if one applies your criteria.
Prosper Keating
Yes, many Allied soldiers died fighting Nazism and defending 'freedom'. I think we are all aware of that. Many members of this forum have served in various wars defending 'freedom' and some of us lost friends. This is all very well but what has Europe done with its 'freedom' in the past 58 years? OK...so nobody is coming to take us away at 3 am to kill us for disagreeing with their policies - unless you live in the Basque country, Ulster, Corsica and most of the Balkans - but the place is falling to pieces because we have squandered this freedom...or allowed the political class to squander it for us.
By the way, Leros is a bit further from Crete than you think, Mr Match. And its capture during Operation Leopard didn't involve a fifty-five day siege, as such. It was captured as the result of an extremely well-planned and well-executed airborne and seaborne invasion and then some very fierce fighting by German troops against vastly superior Allied forces. I suppose my admiration for the German soldiers who captured Leros makes me a Nazi in your eyes, if one applies your criteria.
Prosper Keating
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