• bdonvrA
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    7 months ago

    Eisenhower, like all US Presidents, would be looking up from below not down from above.

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        7 months ago

        It would be like saying Zhukov is in hell. I mean, fuck, no one is going to claim that they’re blameless, but the two men shared a commonality in being men of essentially good character, within the constraints of the prejudices of their time and upbringing, who opposed the worst excesses of their time and were all-in on fighting the Nazis during WW2.

        Also, Ike once gave Zhukov some fishing tackle, which Zhukov highly valued for the rest of his life, as both men enjoyed fishing.

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          7 months ago

          Tell that to the Guatemalans who lost tens or hundreds of thousands of loved ones in a brutal civil war brought on by the coup d’état approved by Eisenhower, which evolved into a Mayan fucking genocide that the US continued to back. All this partially because the old democratically elected regime was disliked by United Fruit Co, an American company.

          Yeah rest in piss tbh.