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The accelerated construction of ships during the Second World War, when the replacement of the fleet that was being actively sunk by the Germans was almost the chief problem, could not be based on the traditions of former shipbuilding, for the cycles of ship construction were excessively long. The cadres of engineers and shipyard workers knew their trade well, but they could not overcome the force of tradition—the traditional technology of design and construction of ships. Shipbuilders, naturally, did not possess the technique of mass and large-series flow production that belonged to other branches of industry, including the automotive, tractor, aviation, and electrical industries, and so on.
Disregarding the classical traditional technology of shipbuilding, and rather in spite of it, American industrialists laid down new foundations for the design and high-speed construction of ships. It was on this basis that the very idea of building the Liberty ships according to the technology of mass production was born. Hundreds of plants that had never engaged in shipbuilding were drawn into the creation of the Liberty-type vessels; they quickly learned to manufacture ship components and deliver them for assembly. The period a ship of this type spent on the slipway had normally been more than a year. Now it became many times shorter than under the old technology.
The first Liberty ship was built in 250 days; the 56th ship was built in 62 days—four times faster. Beginning with the 330th vessel, roughly three years later, the average construction time reached 35 days—seven times faster. At the Permanente Metals shipyard one of the ships was built in 7 days, 14 hours, and 23 minutes. This is, of course, a record for brevity, unprecedented in the shipbuilding industry. It is more than thirty times shorter than the time required to build the first Liberty ship.
The principal factor in this acceleration was an entirely new approach to the organization of ship design and construction—the use of the richest experience of production organization in other branches of industry and the rejection of conservative traditions of design and production technology. A strict principle of narrow specialization of plants was adopted. Ship-
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Nikolai Nikolaevich Smelyakov
«Business America (An Engineer’s Notes)» (1967)

Russian Military History in Art
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The "Geuzenlied", is a World War II-era Dutch marching tune featuring onomatopoeic drum-sound lyrics, adopted by the Dutch Waffen-SS and the National Socialist Movement (NSB).

A wise man was asked: "What must be the first virtue of a child?"
He replied:
"Obedience".
"And the second?"
"Obedience".
"And the third?"
"Obedience".

Page 11 of the 1930 Italian state primary school textbook, Il libro della seconda classe, written by Oronzina Quercia Tanzarella and illustrated by Mario Pompei. The page features a lesson titled "Obbedire" (To Obey), teaching children that obedience is the ultimate childhood virtue. Benito Mussolini’s Fascist triad was, "Credere, Obbedire, Combattere" (Believe, Obey, Fight).

From a Fascist essay against feminism:

The Fascist conception of life is essentially a moral conception: the life of the Fascist must be high and full, lived for himself but above all for others, distant and close, present and future. In the face of arid and selfish individual calculation there is the evaluation of collective and national interests, considered as an ethical end, that is, as the ultimate end for the activities of all individuals and all groups living within the State: this therefore becomes the limit and norm of every individual right, the criterion for evaluating private interests and impulses.

By applying these principles to the female problem, it follows — as a logical corollary — that Fascist ethics precludes the step that leads to Feminism, i.e. that morbid and unhealthy phenomenon that can be summarized as an emancipation of the individual-female so as to be perfectly equal to the emancipated individual-male. Dating back to other times, but spreading rapidly only at the beginning of this present century, partially as a consequence of the World War which for a long time removed the man from business and from the home, thereby allowing the woman to assume the role in both places, Feminism presents itself as the celebration of an individual autonomy that would make woman capable of dictating to herself and by herself all the forms of her work and her life in a clearly selfish and hedonistic vision of existence. It is sufficient, after all, to bear in mind the more easily identifiable manifestations of Feminism: working outside the home, even in jobs that are not physically or morally appropriate for women, most often — if not always — for the sake of monetary gain in order to live comfortably; aspiring towards the most absolute masculinization which is summed up in a presumption of equality of rights and abilities between women and men, which is exalted in the practice of "sports" which are even less appropriate for feminine grace; it is reflected in a stupid mimicry (physical and mental) which undermines sensible modesty and tramples upon virtue; and finally the desire to establish with man not that conjugal life which brings about the "boredom" of motherhood and the "burdens" of a legal bond, but rather a society of enjoyment and pleasure, with equal reciprocal conditions, more or less prolonged in time and space.

Fascism has reacted against this conception since its emergence, reaffirming and exalting the virtues and graces that truly honor the woman, diverting her away from those sexual deviancies which women clumsily engage in with pride in those democratic republics which offer the most evident proof of their degeneracy in the progressive softening of the men.

Adolfo Dolmetta, "Woman in the Fascist State," Critica fascista, 15 February 1939. https://bibliotecafascista.blogspot.com/2012/03/woman-in-fascist-state.html?m=1

Interview with a Rhodesian soldier.

Arriba
26 September 1943
Madrid

This famous artwork and poster comes from Perón-era Argentina. It was made for 1º de Mayo (May 1st), which is International Workers' Day. It shows how the government gave pride and respect back to everyday laborers.

Here is what the Spanish words mean:
"Worker, yesterday oppressed. Today dignified."

It was published by the government office for labor and social safety.

The shouting blue face in the background represents the painful past of the working class. The bright, clean man in front represents the modern worker who now has rights and a better life.

By using May 1st—a day tied to Bolshevism—the anti-communist Perón cleverly used the holiday to show that workers did not need a communist revolution because his government was already delivering real social justice. Many forget that Perón was influenced by the several years he spent in Mussolini's Italy.

What did Perón actually do for the workers? He changed Argentine law to protect the working class, whom he called los descamisados ("the shirtless ones").

• The 8-Hour Day: He limited work hours so people did not collapse from exhaustion.
• El Aguinaldo: He created a mandatory 13th-month salary. Workers received a whole extra month of bonus pay every December.
• Paid Vacations: For the first time, workers could take holidays and still get paid.
• Estatuto del Peón: A special law that provided protections to poor farm and rural workers.
• Cheap Food: The government implemented price controls on staples like beef, bread, and milk so shops could not overcharge.
• Higher Wages: Workers' real pay increased by over 30%, meaning they could buy much more food for their families.
• Free Food Baskets: His wife, Evita, ran a foundation that provided free boxes of food, clothes, and tools directly to poor neighborhoods.
• Freezing Rents: He legally froze rent prices across the country for years so landlords could not raise prices on the working class.

In 1936, Danish clothier Christian Troelstrup covered his five-storey store building with coats to attract buyers.

"These refugees who are not immigrants nor economic migrants. This invasion that occurs now in Europe is designed by the new order to scramble the peoples of Europe so that a new population would be formed that would need, note this, a new religion. A pan-religion. This is an old Zionist plan that is now implemented. And they insist to implement it. Neither will the events of France will stop them, because there are mystical powers over the national governments which promote these projects. A moral war was proceeded around the world and the moral code of Christianity was overthrown. Today men change to women and women change to men. You know about the civil partnerships the strange adoptions and the odd weddings. Then the economic war came. The mind of the woman was tilted. Then the minds of our children and our grandchildren were tilted. And now the minds of priests should be tilted too."

Metropolitan Neophytos of Morfou (2015). Is war the Father and King of all?

Interview mit dem Oberfeldwebel und Ritterkreuzträger der Fallschirmjäger Alexander Uhlig, Bonn, 1988.

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Interview mit dem Oberfeldwebel und Ritterkreuzträger der Fallschirmjäger Alexander Uhlig, Bonn, 1988.

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„Der Irrsinn ist bei Einzelnen etwas Seltenes, – aber bei Gruppen, Parteien, Völkern, Zeiten die Regel."

"Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule."

— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Böse, Chapter 156

#Philosophy #Madness #Society #Nietzsche

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On 2 August 1982, the South African 32 Battalion and 1 Para Battalion attacked a SWAPO training base in Angola, eliminating 144 communist guerrillas at the cost of one soldier from 32 Battalion.