#partisan war

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"ACCORDING TO THE NAZI CAPTION on the photo above, received in this country through a neutral source, it shows German soldiers in the act of capturing a band of "Bolshevists" who had been "terrorizing" the mountain dwellers of Croatia. More likely, they are Yugoslav guerrillas, who have been terrorizing the Nazi "supermen."" - from the Kingston Whig-Standard. July 7, 1943. Page 1.

#world war ii #partisan war #partisans #yugoslavia #yugoslav partisans #guerrilla warfare #Fall Weiss #bandenbekämpfung #counterinsurgency #nazi empire #resistance to nazism #communists

[calabria-mediterranea]

25 April - Anniversary of Italy's Liberation

25 April also known as the Anniversary of Italy's Liberation is a national holiday in Italy that commemorates the victory of the Italian resistance movement against Nazi Germany and the Italian Social Republic, puppet state of the Nazis and rump state of the fascists, culmination of the liberation of Italy from German occupation and of the Italian civil war in the latter phase of World War II. That is distinct from Republic Day (Festa della Repubblica), which takes place on 2 June and commemorates the 1946 Italian institutional referendum.

Every year on 25 April Italy celebrates Liberation Day, known in Italian as Festa della Liberazione, with a national public holiday.

In addition to the closure of schools, public offices and most shops, the day is marked with parades across the country, organised by ANPI, Italy's partisan association which preserves the memory of the Resistance movement against Fascism.

The occasion is held in commemoration of the end of the Fascist regime and of the Nazi occupation during world war two, as well as the victory of Italy's Resistance movement of partisans who opposed the regime.

Formed in 1943, the partigiani comprised a network of anti-Fascist activists, from diverse backgrounds including workers, farmers, students and intellectuals, across Italy.

Resistance

Together they united in armed resistance against the Nazi occupation and the Fascist regime, making their struggle both a war of liberation and a civil war.

The annual event marks the day in 1945 when a nationwide radio broadcast calling for a popular uprising and general strike against the Nazi occupation and Fascist regime was announced by the National Liberation Committee of Upper Italy (CLNAI), a political umbrella organisation representing the Italian Resistance movement.

This announcement - made by partisan and future president of Italy Sandro Pertini - resulted in the capture and death of Fascist leader Benito Mussolini, who was shot three days later.

The Festa della Liberazione represents a significant turning point in Italy's history, paving the way for the referendum of 2 June 1946 when Italians voted in favour of a republic and against the monarchy which had been discredited during the war and whose members went into exile.

Scurati controversy

This year's event takes place against the backdrop of a political controversy after the state broadcaster RAI stopped a well-known Italian writer from delivering an anti-fascist monologue on television a few days before the Festa della Liberazione.

Antonio Scurati accused RAI of censorship after his monologue was dropped abruptly from the Saturday night talkshow Chesarà for "editorial reasons".

The writer claimed that the move highlighted the alleged attempts by premier Giorgia Meloni's right-wing government to exert its influence over the state broadcaster which has seen several veteran presenters leave over the last year including Fabio Fazio, Bianca Berlinguer and Amadeus.

 In his speech Scurati criticised the "ruling post-Fascist party" for wanting to "re-write history" rather than "repudiate its neo-fascist past".

RAI director Paolo Corsini rejected any talk of censorship, as did Meloni who responded to the controversy by posting Scurati's text on her Facebook page, stating that the broadcaster had "simply refused to pay 1800 euro (the monthly salary of many employees) for a minute of monologue".

Meloni added that the Italian people "can freely judge" the contents of the text which was later read live on air by Chesarà presenter Serena Bortone in an act of solidarity with Scurati.

#italy #italia #25 aprile #25 april #festa della liberazione #liberation day #antifascism #history #world war ii #fascism #nazism #antinazi #partisans #resistence #1945 #italian history #antonio scurati #giorgia meloni #governo meloni #serena bortone #censorship #storia italiana

[cctinsleybaxter]

Always thinking/reading/writing about sunk cost fallacy and the ways it permeates our lives, so will say that it has historically been very easy (too easy) for people to apply it to mass violence. Lamenting the dead shouldn’t be paired with statements like ‘the murder toll will never stop climbing,’ ‘it’s over,’ ‘every child will die.’ I know these are well-meaning gestures of sympathy and expressions of helplessness, but Palestine is not gone, Palestinians are not gone. To actively uncouple despair from hope is a disservice to human life. 🇵🇸

#it’s a non-partisan issue like i know people bring it up with pro-war conservatives (e.g Vietnam) but leftists do it constantly #2023

[blackros78]

Group of female Yugoslav Partisans in Mount Dinara (near the border of present-day Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia) - 1943

#partisans #yugoslav partisans #female fighters #1940s #world war ii #1943 #yugoslavia

[eyesfullofmoon]

Faye Schulman in a forest in Poland, c. 1943/1944.

Schulman (born Faigel Lazebnik; November 28, 1919 – April 24, 2021) was a Jewish partisan, photographer, Holocaust survivor, and brigade member. She is widely considered to be the only Jewish partisan photographer who was able to capture the struggle Jews went through during World War II.

From 1942 to 1945, she took over 100 haunting photographs of the Holocaust and resistance fighters — even being forced by the Nazis to take one of massacred Jews, which among the victims included her parents and siblings. After this occurrence, she was determined to document the atrocities that the Germans inflicted, and later on was able to use these photos against them.

After the war ended in 1945, Schulman immigrated to Canada with her husband; released a memoir; was decorated by the Soviet/Belarusian, American, and Canadian governments; and lived another 76 years, peacefully dying at the age of 101.

"I want people to know that there was resistance. Jews did not go like sheep to the slaughter. I was a photographer. I have pictures. I have proof." – Faye Schulman.

#1940s #* #jewish #female photographers #women in history #faye schulman #partisan #jewish history #old photos #historic photographs #world war ii #resistance fighters #world war 2 #40s #world war two #women in photography #history #women of history #jews of tumblr #jews #old photography #history photos #vintage #vintage photography #vintage photos #women photographers #black and white #b&w #photography #photographers

[scotianostra]

Statue of the Unknown Partisan

The Unknown Partisan or Unknown Soldier Statue is a Tirana war memorial for the troops who died during the Second World War battle against the occupying forces.

The statue appears as a man who has a fist and gun extended, aiming his weapons down the road to the Parliament building. It is built next to the Albanian Parliament and Kapllan Pasha’s tomb. It was built by the Albanian Communist

#Albans #war memorial #ww2 #tirana #Partisan #my pics

[pbr-street-gang]

Chinese flyer showing solidarity for the Vietcong struggle against the American invasion.

“PUT HATRED IN THE GUN”

#Vietcong #Vietnam War #Vietnam #anti imperialism #outlaws and partisans #guerilla #mine #propaganda

[mosylufanfic]

For the five fun facts: an AU where Cassian joins the Partisans, or Jyn joins the Rebellion, at a young age

I'm going to go with the Andor timeline on this just because.

Cassian falls in with the Partisans while he's in juvie. Or more accurately he falls in with a Partisan, who notices how good this kid is at marking patrol patterns and figuring out who's too busy smoking or playing on a datapad to notice some kids out of place. Just the kind of skills you need to make an escape.

Cassian goes because he is sixteen and angry and Clem died in front of him three years ago and all Maarva ever does is send letters he can barely read every week. He wants to do something. He never goes back to Ferrix.

He generally ignores Jyn, who is at this time a skinny annoying eleven year old who is, humiliatingly, a better shot than him. He practices. A lot. He's the best sniper in the cadre within five years.

He still ignores Jyn, even when he's started to notice her. But he also knows that a) 21 is a lot older than 16, even a 16 year old Partisan, and b) he would literally not have enough time to scream if Saw ever caught him looking. Anyway, if he's still noticing in a couple of years, he'll do something about it then. If she lets him.

Except he does look for her, after they leave Tamsye Prime, and doesn't find her, and is concerned enough to go to Saw. "We had to leave her," Saw rasps, huskier than usual, not that Cassian notices because he's so angry. How can you leave someone behind like that? When you have a choice? When you're her home? How? He steals a two person ship and bolts back to Tamsye Prime, hoping against hope to still find her there, knowing neither of them can go back to the Partisans. That's fine. They'll figure it out.

Epilogue: he never does give any thought to why that particular two-person ship was left unsecured and stocked enough for two people.

#Jyn Erso #Cassian Andor #rebelcaptain #Partisan!Cassian #star wars

[jkcorellia]

The spectrum of Rebel leaders...from Luthen to Saw to Enfys to Hera to Bail to Leia to Mon...they needed all of them. They needed all approaches.

#star wars #rebellion #andor #solo a star wars story #rogue one #bail organa #mon mothma #luthen rael #saw gerrera #hera syndulla #enfys nest #cloud riders #partisans #spectres #star wars rebels

[carbone14]

Après son entrée dans Paris avec les troupes de la 2e Division blindée, Simone Segouin, résistante française dans les Francs-tireurs et partisans (FTP), et deux de ses camarades participent à l'élimination des dernières poches de résistance – Libération de Paris – Opération Overlord – Août 1944

Photos Robert Capa

©Magnum photos

Simone Segouin rejoint les Francs-Tireurs et Partisans en 1944 à l'��ge de 18 ans sous le pseudonyme de Nicole Minet. Après de nombreuses missions en tant qu'agent de liaison entre Dreux, Chartres et Châteaudun, les FTP lui propose de prendre les armes et devient l'une des rares femmes à prendre part aux combats. Attaques de convois, de trains, de détachements ennemis et opérations de sabotage lui valent le respect au sein de la résistance.

Elle participe activement à la libération de Chartres et s'illustre le 20 août 1944 en prenant part à la capture de 25 allemands à Thivars, à 7 km au sud de Chartres. A cette occasion elle récupère un pistolet mitrailleur MP40 avec lequel elle pose fièrement lors de la venue du Général de Gaulle à Chartres le 23 août pendant sa tournée d'inspection des régions libérées.

A la suite de cette cérémonie, les différents groupes de résistants du département prennent la direction de Paris pour participer aux combats insurrectionnels. La plupart regagnent Paris et font la jonction avec la 2e Division blindée de Leclerc le 25 août à six heures du matin.

C'est la raison pour laquelle, un cliché de Robert Capa présente Simone Segouin aux côtés de deux de ses camarades face aux dernières poches de résistance allemande.

Sa conduite valeureuse dans la clandestinité et son action dans les combats de la Libération lui valurent le grade de sous-lieutenant.

Elle fût décorée de la croix de guerre par Charles Tillon, ministre de l'Armement et ancien chef des FTP le 24 mars 1946 à Chartres.

#WWII #opération overlord #operation overlord #overlord #libération de la france #liberation of france #libération de paris #liberation of paris #résistance #resistance #résistance française #french resistance #francs-tireurs et partisans #ftp #femmes dans la guerre #women in war #figures historiques #historical figures #simone segouin #paris #france #août 1944

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Signe Wilkinson

* * * *

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

April 20, 2024

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

APR 21, 2024

Cheering broke out in the gallery and among Democrats on the floor of the House of Representatives this afternoon when the House passed the $60.8 billion aid bill for Ukraine. The vote was 311–112, with all Democrats and 101 Republicans voting in favor and 112 Republicans voting against. One Republican voted present. 

The House also voted on the three other bills that will be packaged with the Ukraine bill as a single measure to go in front of the Senate. The House voted in favor of providing $8.1 billion in support for Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific by a vote of 385–34. It approved more than $26 billion for Israel, including $9.2 billion in humanitarian aid not specifically for Gaza but for populations in crisis, by a vote of 366–58. And it voted 360–58 to place additional sanctions on Iran, seize Russian assets, and require the Chinese owners of TikTok to sell the company within nine months if they want it to continue to be available on U.S. app stores.  

The total price tag of the measures is about $95.3 billion. About $50 billion of it will be used here in the U.S. to replenish the supplies that will go abroad. 

Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) says the Senate will take up the measure on Tuesday. Senators had gone home for recess but will come back to vote. The Department of Defense says it is ready to rush crucial supplies as soon as it gets the go-ahead. "We have a very robust logistics network that enables us to move material very quickly; as we've done in the past, we can move within days," Pentagon press secretary Air Force Major General Pat Ryder said Thursday.  

Aid to Ukraine has been stalled since Biden first asked for it in October 2023. First, MAGA Republicans said they would never pass such a national security supplemental bill until the U.S. addressed the need for better security at the country’s southern border. Senators, including Republican James Lankford (R-OK) took them at their word and hammered out a strong border security measure, only to have Republicans reject it when Trump demanded they preserve border security as a campaign issue. The Senate then passed the national security supplemental bill without a border measure, but that was back in February. Although it was clear the measure would pass the House, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has steadfastly refused to take it up. 

Meanwhile, countries around the globe have been stepping into the breach, providing funds and weapons for Ukraine as Ukraine’s war effort has faltered without U.S. war matériel.

Suddenly, the dam has broken. 

The MAGA extremists who oppose aid to Ukraine expressed anger over the measure’s passage, but outside of that group, there was bipartisan relief and mutual congratulations. The chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Representative Michael McCaul (R-TX), who has been vocal in his belief that Republicans have fallen prey to Russian propaganda, compared today’s vote to the period before World War II, when British prime minister Neville Chamberlain tried to appease dictator Adolf Hitler in 1938 by agreeing to Germany’s annexation of the Sudetenland. To Chamberlain’s successor, Winston Churchill, fell the task of fighting World War II. 

“Our adversaries are watching us here today, and history will judge us on our actions here today,” McCaul said. “So as we deliberate on this vote, you have to ask yourself: Am I Chamberlain or am I Churchill?”

House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said: “For months, the national security priorities of the American people have been obstructed by pro-Putin extremists determined to let Russia win. A bipartisan coalition of Democrats and Republicans has risen up to work together and ensure that we are getting the national security legislation important to the American people over the finish line.”

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin also released a statement welcoming the passage of the measure. “This bipartisan legislation will allow the Department to surge lifesaving security assistance to help Ukraine defend itself from Russia’s aggression, support Israel’s defense from Iran and its proxies, and increase the flow of urgently needed humanitarian aid to suffering Palestinians in Gaza.” It is also, he wrote, “an important investment in America's future.”  

President Joe Biden said that “members of both parties in the House voted to advance our national security interests and send a clear message about the power of American leadership on the world stage. At this critical inflection point, they came together to answer history’s call, passing urgently-needed national security legislation that I have fought for months to secure.” 

The reiteration of the bipartisan nature of the vote suggests support for the idea that the breaking dam refers not just to the national security supplemental bill but also to the power of MAGA Republicans more generally. Representative Tom Cole (R-OK) suggested this interpretation in an interview today with Ryan Lizza of Politico. 

MAGAs are Trump loyalists, counting on his return to power, and Trump is visibly diminished. For the last week, he has been sitting in a courtroom with no choice but to do as he is told by the judge while potential jurors have expressed their dislike of him to his face. This is novel for him, and it is clearly taking a toll. 

Trump’s financial troubles have not gone away, either. Yesterday, New York attorney general Letitia James asked a judge to void the $175 million appeals bond Trump posted to secure the $454 million judgment against him in the business fraud case. She says that the defendants have failed to show that there is enough collateral behind the bond to secure it. She has asked for a replacement bond within a week. Without a bond, James can begin to seize Trump’s property. 

Since Republicans took control of the House, Republican leaders have had to turn to Democrats to find the votes to pass crucial legislation like the national security supplemental bill, preventing a U.S. default, and funding the government. Republicans interested in governing and eager to protect the institutions of democracy appear to be getting fed up with the attention-seeking and bomb-throwing MAGA faction that refuses to do the work of governing. 

That frustration might have been on display when the House also voted on a fifth measure: a border bill the extremist Republicans demanded. Because it was considered under a suspension of the rules, it needed a two-thirds majority to pass. The measure failed with a vote of 215–211. Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a lawyer with the American Immigration Council advocacy group, noted that the last time the House voted on a similar measure, it got 219 votes. This time it got fewer votes, even with an added $9.5 billion for Texas, Florida, and other states that are restricting immigrants’ rights. 

In The Atlantic today, David Frum noted the changing U.S. political dynamic and, referring  to the Ukraine vote, wrote: “On something that mattered intensely to [Trump]—that had become a badge of pro-Trump identity—Trump’s own party worked with Democrats in the House and Senate to hand him a stinging defeat. This example could become contagious.” In other words, he said: “Ukraine won. Trump lost.”

For his part, leading Russian politician Dmitry Medvedev had his own reaction to the House’s passage of the national security supplemental bill with aid for Ukraine. He vowed that Russia would win the war anyway and added: “[C]onsidering the russophobic decision that took place I can't help but wish the USA with all sincerity to dive into a new civil war themselves as quickly as possible. Which, I hope, will be very different from the war between North and South in the 19th century and will be waged using aircraft, tanks, artillery, MLRS, all types of missiles and other weapons. And which will finally lead to the inglorious collapse of the vile evil empire of the 21st century—the United States of America.”

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

#Letters From An American #Heather Cox Richardson #War in Ukraine #the Putin Caucus #Moscow Marge #MAGA Extremists #bi-partisan coalition #do your job #aid to ukraine #defending democracy

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Nazis combattant les Yougoslaves," Le Soleil. April 28, 1943. Page 1. ---- Cette photo transmise par une source neutre montre quelques-uns des milliers d'Allemands qui durent être retirés du front de Russie pour combattre le "2e front" formé à l'intérieur de la Yougoslavie, par les guérillas de patriotes. On y voit des grenadiers allemands à l'affût des combattants yougoslaves, derriere des tranchées.

(Photo Central Press)

#world war ii #partisan war #partisans #yugoslavia #yugoslav partisans #guerrilla warfare #Fall Weiss #bandenbekämpfung #counterinsurgency #nazi empire #resistance to nazism #communists #mountain warfare #winter warfare

[hauntedbystorytelling]

Arrivederci Walkiria Terradura Vagnarelli, aka Walkiria (9 gennaio 1924 – 5 luglio 2023)

Arrivederci / auf Wiedersehen /au revoir / see you around / hasta la vista!

#Walkiria Terradura #partisan women #portrait #wwii #women at war #antifascism #against fascism #fighter #partisan

[josipbroztitoarchive]

We have shed a sea of blood for the brotherhood and unity of our peoples. We will not allow anyone to touch us or break down from within, to destroy this brotherhood and unity. - Josip Broz Tito

(photo: Žorž Skrigin, 26. November 1942)

#josipbroztito #josip broz tito #tito #jugoslavija #yugoslavia #socialism #quote #archive #old picture #old photo #world war two #world war 2 #world war ii #1942 #november #partisans #liberation #brotherhood #unity #peoples #history #historical #war #battle #black and white

[sgterso]

" y'know, saw wanted to give you over to the bor gullet, " jyn says casually, leaning against the wall opposite of his cell, not hiding the way she looks him over with disdain. the alleged defector is a pitiful sight . . . but something about him gives her pause. his claims of a message for galen erso –– a man she'd rather believe is dead –– are likely false, and she wants answers as much as saw does. but the bor gullet destroys peoples' minds ; this man should at least know what he's getting himself into if he doesn't tell her the truth. " but i managed to convince him to let us have a conversation. " her eyes flash. " and i think you know what'll happen if i don't like what i hear. "

@fals3nd liked for a partisan!jyn starter !

#fals3nd #v. star wars. ━ partisans. #hi thanks for liking i hope this is okay!! #im thinking set when bodhi defects and makes it to jedha!

[postcard-from-the-past]

Berber partisans during the Rif War in Morocco

French vintage postcard

#vintage #tarjeta #morocco #briefkaart #berber #postcard #photography #postal #carte postale #sepia #ephemera #the rif war #historic #french #ansichtskarte #postkarte #partisans #postkaart #photo