u/Altruistic-Path269

Got really addicted to it now

Another Comic read and as always a Timeline for you guys. I hope you like it. I always like to read your thoughts on it.

1936

Capitaine Saint-Elme works for the Vice Squad (Brigade des mœurs) in Marseille.

​Under orders from Corsican mob boss Antoine Guérini, Saint-Elme conducts a raid on a brothel at the Old Port (Vieux-Port) and rescues seven underage girls, including Louison and Tentation.

1940

France suffers military defeat (la débâcle) against Nazi Germany in June. ​General Charles de Gaulle launches the appeal of June 18; Saint-Elme joins the Gaullist resistance network from the outset.

​Colonel Duplessy remains attached to the general staff of General Henri Giraud and follows him into German captivity. ​Louison, Tentation, Odette, and Line flee Marseille and relocate to Paris.

1942

In March, Saint-Elme arrives in Paris on an intelligence mission and recruits Louison, Tentation, Odette, and Line as operatives.

​The women infiltrate German Wehrmacht officer brothels to extract military intelligence. ​The Guérini brothers align their criminal network with the French Résistance.

1943

In Algiers, Charles de Gaulle and General Giraud clash over leadership of the French Committee of National Liberation (CFLN), cementing long-term institutional animosity between Gaullists (Saint-Elme) and Giraudists (Duplessy).

1944

General Charles de Gaulle dies in a plane crash over the Mediterranean sea.​ ||Edit because I forgot to mention it: (Its mentioned that a Storm and several SS-Tank Divisions made the landing at Normandy much more harder than Operation Dragoon)||. Following Operation Dragoon in Provence, the Allied advance stalls for six months before Lyon ("the Stalingrad on the Saône").

​Joseph Stalin halts the Soviet summer offensive, leaving the Red Army to absorb the German counter-offensive while Western Allied forces remain bogged down.

1945

The French 1st Army finally enters Lyon, while the Red Army advances westward all the way to the Rhine.​Saint-Elme's female operatives are decorated for their wartime service and transitioned into France's foreign intelligence agency (SDECE).

​Dr. Marcel Petiot evades prosecution and the guillotine, putting his forensic and medical services at the disposal of Soviet authorities.

1946

In autumn, the communist Francs-tireurs et partisans (FTP) launch an armed uprising in Paris. ​Marshal Georgy Zhukov enters Paris with T-34 tank divisions to back the communist faction.

​The Right Bank is formally proclaimed the Democratic French Republic (DFR) under Maurice Thorez, permanently partitioning Paris along a fortified and mined Seine boundary.

1947 - 1951

The Soviet Union detonates its first atomic weapon with the assistance of captured German scientists.

​The United States deploys Convair B-36 Peacemaker bombers under General Curtis LeMay, developing plans for pre-emptive nuclear strikes.

​The DFR internal security apparatus establishes headquarters at 93 Rue Lauriston under the People's Political Police (PFP), harboring Dr. Petiot under Beria's direct patronage.

1951 (Year of the Plot)

An impending East-West Peace Conference is scheduled at the Palais de Challiot while a string of mutilated prostitute murders shakes the Right Bank.

Operative Louison is murdered on the Pont au Change before delivering intelligence concerning underground Bavarian nuclear facilities. ​General Curtis LeMay and the SDECE assign Saint-Elme to a joint Allied-Soviet investigation across the Seine as a cover to contact his compromised network.

​Saint-Elme links up with Capitaine-Camarade Donnadieu (PFP) and attends Dr. Petiot's autopsy, deducing the presence of an accomplice. ​Saint-Elme rendezvouses with Tentation at the "Star" cinema; after a firefight aided by an ex-SS sniper, both escape over rooftops and industrial yards before being ferried across the Seine by Romani boatmen.

​At Western headquarters, Colonel Duplessy and British liaison officers issue Saint-Elme a 24-hour ultimatum to verify the Bavarian arms data while dismissing his findings as Soviet disinformation.

​Saint-Elme and Tentation re-infiltrate the Right Bank, breach Petiot's clinic on Rue Le Sueur, and uncover his execution gas chamber, quicklime pits, and looted luggage.

​Following a vehicle chase into Pigalle, Petiot is cornered and shot dead; the passenger of Petiot (who is implied to be Beria) shoots and wounds Tentation, and Soviet security forces arrest Saint-Elme.

​Donnadieu deactivates the cell microphones, revealing herself as the "Chinese woman" and writer Marguerite Duras. She discloses that the Bavarian weapons were a western pretext: Duplessy and LeMay intended to sacrifice Saint-Elme as a decoy to scrap the Peace Conference and initiate war using B-36 bombers.

​Duras provides Saint-Elme with an incriminating dossier documenting Beria and Petiot's crimes, instructing him to pass it to François Mitterrand and Albert Camus.

​Gang boss Antoine "Mémé" Guérini smuggles Saint-Elme and a recovered Tentation through subterranean tunnels under the Seine into the basement of the Institut de France.

​The manuscript is delivered via Romani couriers to Albert Camus at Le Monde, who halts the presses to publish the headline "QUI VEUT LA GUERRE?", exposing the conspiracy and averting World War III.

​Supplied with forged documents from Charles Pasqua, Saint-Elme and Tentation disappear to the coast to leave Europe permanently.

Greeting to all,

Even though I was only born in Germany in 2004, we all still feel the profound impact of this attack on the free world today. Twenty-five years ago on this day, terrorists struck against our shared freedom to spread their ideology of hatred and intolerance. Today, we all people that love freedom and liberty honor the victims who lost their lives and the brave first responders who gave everything to help. My deepest condolences go out to everyone who lost a loved one.

May we never forget that day.

Nachdem ich als Rainer ein Abenteurerreich versuchte. Wurde ich aus dem ganzen Ostfrankenreich verbannt. Reiste erst gen Norden dann gen Osten. Im Osten wurde ich auch ziemlich überall verbannt. Bekam dann eine Tochter und starb schließlich an Lungenentzündung irgendwo in Polen.

Ich bin in letzter Zeit wieder immens auf Crusader Kings trip und entschied mich mal für eine wahre Challange: Ich werde versuchen eine Dynastie der Winklers aufrecht zu erhalten. Dafür diese Spielfigur und folgende Persönlichkeitseigenschaften ausgewählt:

Lüstern (wird im Spiel als Sündhaft unter Katholizismus gestuft)

Unersättlich (wird im Spiel als Sündhaft unter Katholizismus gestuft)

Faul

Zornig

Arrogant

Gefühllos

Stur

Andere Eigenschaften sind:

Reizbar

Verschwenderisch

Trostfresser

Dümmlich

Begriffsstutzig

Keucher

Peverser

Einsiedler

Liederlich

Ich werde ungefähr in der selben Gegend starten und sehen wie weit ich als Rainerle komme.

"The KPD rejected Weimar because that state had been having socialists shot since 1919. Their assessment—that this order paved the way for fascism—was confirmed in 1933, using Weimar’s own mechanisms. One cannot simultaneously celebrate the Basic Law—which refutes Weimar—and place Weimar on a pedestal."

"Anyone who wears the three arrows today has chosen—out of dozens of anti-fascist symbols—precisely the one that places the Left on the list of enemies. And that is precisely why these people deserve neither trust, nor an alliance, nor any form of cooperation."

I see sometimes his posts online. He calls for a general strike and the radical disarmament of the Bundeswehr. Turns out: he is an avid supporter of the Stalin Puppet Thälmann, the rightfully forbidden Party KPD and wears GDR Shirt for watching soccer in public. Its truly disgusting that agitators like him having so much exposure and are steering the protests and the movements.

The original Post translated:

Refuse the Bundeswehr! Refuse the pseudo-democracy and its capitalist special-interest state! Become enemies of the state!!! Fight creatively for a radically democratic and non-capitalist social order, where every person can freely develop socially and ecologically according to their abilities and needs: For a social order of cooperation instead of competition! Russia is not your enemy, but capitalism all over the world.

My Answer:

The Vidkun Quisling of the future is already pleased; back then in Norway, just like today, we should be able to defend ourselves against anti-democratic enemies like Russia. But apparently, we are supposed to accept a Quisling when worst comes to worst. Advocating for free development, but having no means to defend it, is quite delusional.

In the last months of the rearmament to build up a defensive army force for germany is strictly countered by protests and fear mongering of certain parties (cough Cough Die Linke). The arguments are always the same. "I dont want to end up dying on the front" "Just capitalist war preperation" "I dont see why I should defense germany and its democracy" Germany has its problems yes, but giving up and just refuse and basically accept the enemy to possibly invade us or strengthen its influence is certainly something of delusional. I dont want to sound like a conspiracy nut but I think those movements are financed and controlled by radical left, communists and pro Russia activists that hide behind pacifist movements.

First of all, this collection contains the issues from the original run as well as Family Values, and it’s a German translation.

​What do I think? I was a bit skeptical at first. My first exposure to Garth Ennis was through The Boys, and since I really liked his writing style, I looked up his other work and came across Crossed. On TikTok, people love to pretend they've 'read' Crossed, and by 'read,' I mean they just watched a few Shorts, complained excessively about the violence and gore, and acted like the comics have no real plot or are just cheap shock value.

​I bought the collection out of curiosity and started reading. The first thing I noticed were the illustrations and coloring, which, considering the graphic content, are truly captivating. Whenever I reached a page showing a horde of Crossed in an abandoned city or out in the streets, I could genuinely imagine the sounds and the atmosphere of the scene just by looking at the artwork. So far, very few comics have managed to do that for me. I loved how expressive the faces were drawn and how easily you grow attached to the survivors trying to make it through just one more day. Contrary to what those Shorts and posers claim, Crossed actually has an engaging plot that was simply too gripping to put down. I read through the original run in about two hours because I took my time taking in the artwork. Just a few pages in, I desperately wanted Stan to survive, or at least get a peaceful death instead of being flayed or worse by the Crossed. The depiction of the outbreak on the opening pages was daunting, but it immediately grabbed my attention.

​As for Family Values: I really liked the plot here, too. You naturally root for Addy. Not just because of her god-awful father (I hated him right from the start because, my god, is he insufferable; the moment he did his stuff that I wont detail and wasted supplies to build a church in New Paradise, I was practically begging for him to die), but also because she’s a compelling, multifaceted charactes, something that feels quite rare in the media I usually consume.

​Now, regarding the gore: I personally think people either read a few out-of-context panels or skim through them and immediately jump to conclusions. In reality, the comic strikes a great balance between both elements: the human drama, the escape, the journey, and the dialogue on one hand, and the extreme violence on the other (which hasn't felt gratuitous so far, but rather delivered in potent, well-measured doses). I honestly believe the people claiming this comic is only about violence are either: 1) not actually interested in reading stories with substance, or 2) just chasing clout from impressionable Gen Z audiences on social media because the comic seems 'edgy and cool.'

​Overall, I’m really looking forward to picking up the next collection.

I wish you the best for all coming years and please stay as you are, as country with rich history and culture. Yours sincerely,

The biggest fan of the Union in Germany.

Are those people delusional?

The Newspaper "Junge Welt" is now against the Berlin Vhapter of the Party Die Linke because they want to make waving the soviet flag at soviet war memorials a police matter and it seems like this is another proof of communist infighting. Translation here:

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Attack on Soviet memorials

The Left [Party] supports Green motion

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Anyone who does not want to support a policy that, among other things, turns the displaying of the Soviet flag at memorials on May 8th and 9th into a police matter, cannot vote for Die Linke (The Left) in September.

A commentary by Nico Popp

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In Berlin, a motion by the Greens is currently before the state parliament's cultural committee, which aims to overwrite and ultimately destroy the Soviet character of the memorials commemorating the victory over Nazi Germany in the capital with anti-Soviet and anti-communist narratives.

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Now, the parliamentary group leader of Die Linke in the state parliament, Anne Helm, has tipped off "Welt" that her party will vote in favor of this motion.

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The final alignment with a "contemporary" historical and remembrance policy suitable for war-ready mobilization cannot come as a surprise. Among the leadership of the capital's Left party, hatred of the 20th-century socialist experiment has always been directly proportional to their increasingly passionate affirmation of the established order.

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It is consistent to let both tendencies work together for once and to support the remodeling of the memorials along the lines of at least a latent equation of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.

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Noooo not my favorite mass murder regime who wasnt better than Nazi Germany...noooo

In Germany several funtionaries of the youth organization from the Party Die Linke are exposed to openly Support Stalin, Mao and Honecker and other pretty hefty stuff. The research is now called by other communists and radical socialists as "red scare" and act like Joe McCarthy is risen from his grave. They brushing off the research with an post with Marx Conterfeit on it

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Translation (Sorry forgot it)

A specter is haunting the bourgeois public sphere—yet again. According to an investigative report published by Bayerischer Rundfunk on June 17, the youth organization Linksjugend ['solid] is characterized by the "glorification of dictatorship," positive references to Stalin and Mao, and—naturally—allegedly antisemitic hostility toward Israel. Several comrades associated with the disbanded BAK Agitprop are quoted by name, citing private chat messages in an effort to publicly drag their reputations through the mud.

First and foremost: The smear campaign launched by the bourgeois media is an expression of shrill anti-communism, intended to damage the entire political left and discredit any fundamental alternative to the existing capitalist order. That is all the ruling class and their hacks in the newsrooms are concerned with—not any legitimate left-wing criticism of Stalin, Honecker, and their ilk. At a time when capital and government launch daily attacks on social benefits, working hours, and pensions, while simultaneously pouring hundreds of billions into their preparations for world war, reintroducing conscription, and transforming the state into an authoritarian system, one thing is clear: Anger is growing among the working class and youth. Openness to revolutionary, communist answers is increasing, communist groups are growing, and Marxist ideas are gaining strength even within the youth wing of the Left Party. This process is to be suppressed with anti-communist propaganda, which aims to suppress the communist

alternatives to the crisis and capitalism are being dragged through the mud. It is therefore hardly surprising that this article comes from the very same editorial team that also attacked the student strikes—claiming they were steered by the SDAJ and other radical left-wing groups, and arguing that one simply shouldn't take to the streets alongside such people. This is a clear attempt to strip the student movement of its agency, to divide it, and to weaken its struggle against rising militarization and the looming threat of conscription.

We explicitly stand in solidarity with the comrades who have found themselves in the crossfire of anti-communist and Zionist agitation in the wake of this alleged "scandal"! In many instances, we do not share the substance of the statements attributed to them (more on that in a moment)—but, as we said, that is not the point! An example is to be made of them in order to turn communism and anti-Zionism into a "red rag" within the Left, and to purge the party of "radical influences" and keep it aligned with the system. One would have to be cynical indeed not to notice that this "investigation" was published just days before the Left Party's federal conference.

It is regrettable that leading figures in the Left Party immediately fall for the anti-communist media campaign and try to outdo one another in distancing themselves from "Stalinism." In doing so—much like the PDS in the 1990s—they use this term to refer not merely to the crimes of the Stalinist bureaucracy, but also to Lenin, the Russian Revolution, and communism itself. By caving in to media pressure, they leave the targeted comrades exposed to right-wing smears, thereby repeating the mistakes they made in recent years regarding Gaza and the Middle East.

As has become all too predictable, the BR once again distorts statements critical of Israel in this article, framing them as antisemitic. Ironically, in doing so, it equates Israel with Jewish people, reduces the Jewish faith community to a homogeneous mass, and thereby engages in antisemitism itself. Anyone who grapples with the crimes of the Israeli state and actively opposes them can only roll their eyes wearily at accusations of antisemitism these days. Politicians and media representatives in Germany have all too often misused this once highly sensitive term to smear pro-Palestinian activists.

Even the provocative statement "Israel drop dead"—cited in the article—does not call for the death of all Jewish people. The intended target is clearly a nation-state, a political system, and a form of oppression that has been carried out with extreme violence since its inception. The clumsy attempt to rhetorically equate this slogan with Nazi antisemitism—where the phrase "Juda verrecke" ("Juda drop dead") clearly targeted people of a specific faith—is substantively weak; it is yet another indication that, unable to offer objective criticism of opposing positions, one resorts instead to disparaging political adversaries.

Let us be honest: from a Marxist perspective, many of the statements cited demonstrate, above all, political naivety. Take, for instance, the claim that Stalin "punished capitalists"—is that actually the case? The Communist International of the 1930s, led by Stalin and his henchman Dimitrov, forced Communist parties in countries like Spain and France into alliances with bourgeois liberals, thereby saving private property and the market from the socialist revolution. Stalin’s Popular Front policy did not punish capitalists; instead, it effectively designated them as allies and defended their capitalist system.

It is often said that one can learn a great deal from Mao Zedong regarding the "organization of the class." Is that really the case? And which class is being referred to here? The peasantry? Much like his role model Stalin, Mao and the Chinese Communist Party rejected the independent struggle for socialist working-class power. Instead, Mao advocated a "New Democratic Revolution" in which a "bloc of four classes"—comprising not only the peasant majority but also "patriotic capital"—would establish a new bourgeois order and, consequently, forgo the expropriation of the bourgeoisie. Can this seriously serve as a model for communists today?!

For workers and young people seeking revolutionary answers, Stalinism is often a primary point of reference because it appropriates the prestige of the Russian and Chinese revolutions of 1917 and 1949. Added to this is decades of anti-communist propaganda, which one-sidedly demonizes—and dismisses with catchwords like "Gulag" and "dictatorship"—even the enormous social achievements that existed in Stalinist states thanks to their planned economies and despite their bureaucratic deformations. Who, then, can blame them for countering this anti-communist propaganda with an aggressive defense of the states that call themselves socialist?

Yet figures such as Stalin, Mao, and Erich Honecker did not truly represent socialism or a communist perspective. In fact, it was they who broke with the revolutionary legacy of the Red October and Lenin’s Bolsheviks. Instead of upholding the revolutionary power of the working class—the "republic of workers' and soldiers' councils," the "state consisting of armed workers which is no longer a state in the proper sense" (as Lenin put it in his seminal 1917 text The State and Revolution)—Stalin, Mao, and Honecker presided over nationally isolated, bureaucratic regimes. In these systems, although the bourgeoisie had been expropriated and a planned economy was in place, the working class remained completely devoid of rights. By the late 1980s, the ruling bureaucracy itself restored the capitalist order in all these regimes, transforming itself into a bourgeois class of oligarchs and billionaires—figures who continue to shape the politics of Eastern Europe and China to this day.

We are revolutionary communists! We celebrate the Russian Revolution of 1917 and its Bolshevik leadership as a magnificent historical example—and for that very reason, we firmly reject the dead end into which that revolution was led during the 1920s with the establishment of the bureaucratic Stalin regime—a model copied in minute detail by Mao in China and Ulbricht in East Germany. However, our Marxist critique of Stalin, Mao, and their ilk is a revolutionary, left-wing one; it has nothing in common with the anti-communist vitriol directed at comrades in the Left Youth—attacks that demonize not merely Stalinism, but the communist goal itself. We take a clear stand against this! We reiterate: Solidarity with all those under attack!

That was much Text from the Leftist Party

Always the same stupid responses with

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-Berg

-Witz

Gold-

Rosen-

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Those people are so stuck up to the jewish Stereotypen that they forget that the last name doest really say anything about if a person is jewish or not, for example: Alfred Ernst Rosenberg who was a NSDAP member.

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I am quite often here and enjoy you guys debunking commie memes but why is it so common for communists to literally do it like east germany and erect a wall.of text in every meme they have? Is that like the same reason they say "You never read Marx...so you cant argue rightfully. First read his books then argue."