THE VENGEANCE OF HISTORY ... 1
The Second World War was the vengeance of God on England. England was given the taste of what it means to lose one's own freedom when one has taken away by force, treachery and deceit the freedom of others.
Hitler was God's vengeance on the rapacious colonists. He was no more a devil than Churchill was, and the Nazis in a short span of twelve years merely reenacted the destructive drama that the Anglo-Saxon colonists had played out in a much more virulent form over centuries that had decimated civilisations and cultures and reduced nations to ruins in pursuit of the single aim of upholding British narrow nationalistic interests.
And now the war was on them as God's vengeance, as history's irrevocable death-deal on a nation for death dealt on the innocents of other nations. The European powers, co-sharers in the spoils of the colonised world, now rained weapons on each other in the most catastrophic war of all time.
Germany, recovering from the reverses of the First World War and smarting under the ignominy of the Treaty of Versailles, was the vengeance of history, the resolution of the historical forces that had conspired to reduce the European colonies to ruins. From here the rise of Hitler and his National Socialists was but an inevitable end that would settle the balance of forces in an emerging world order where suppressed humanity would breathe freer and their oppressors in mutual annihilation would be cut down to their proper size.
Written by Sugata Bose
The Second World War was the vengeance of God on England. England was given the taste of what it means to lose one's own freedom when one has taken away by force, treachery and deceit the freedom of others.
Hitler was God's vengeance on the rapacious colonists. He was no more a devil than Churchill was, and the Nazis in a short span of twelve years merely reenacted the destructive drama that the Anglo-Saxon colonists had played out in a much more virulent form over centuries that had decimated civilisations and cultures and reduced nations to ruins in pursuit of the single aim of upholding British narrow nationalistic interests.
And now the war was on them as God's vengeance, as history's irrevocable death-deal on a nation for death dealt on the innocents of other nations. The European powers, co-sharers in the spoils of the colonised world, now rained weapons on each other in the most catastrophic war of all time.
Germany, recovering from the reverses of the First World War and smarting under the ignominy of the Treaty of Versailles, was the vengeance of history, the resolution of the historical forces that had conspired to reduce the European colonies to ruins. From here the rise of Hitler and his National Socialists was but an inevitable end that would settle the balance of forces in an emerging world order where suppressed humanity would breathe freer and their oppressors in mutual annihilation would be cut down to their proper size.
Written by Sugata Bose
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