Thanks to drafting a post across a few hours between serving people at an event I managed to somehow post on a totally different thread, and now at McDs I can repost ….
On the topic of ‘glorification’, we play a game, for many that includes dressing up.
The underlying motivation of the majority will be unknown, in some cases it can be a little clearer.
There is a degree of time healing, such as in the re-enactment world knights, Cavaliers, Roundheads etc are far away from memory, WW1 is pretty much out of direct memory but there can be ‘family memory’, WW2 can get close to the bone when someone appears far too interested in Hugo Boss
Rhodesia etc is nearer in memory than the American Civil war, but they have parallels (and in parts of the US in recent years their may be civil war re-emergence as a closely hinting message)
Overall I could not give a toss about someone’s political motivations (it may not endear me to them)
Generally I like the underdog, so that often directs me towards the baddies for at least the latter half of the last century and this century so far.
I am a major fan of wooden accessories, sadly my SLR is in black, but my AKs are wooden. They have all given me great pleasure, but I will not take out my AKs again for personal reasons which I will touch on below.
As a side note, the OSS ‘advisors’ to the Viet Minh couldn’t roll off the Declaration of Independence straight off their lips, which could have changed a future direction. Uncle Ho as an intellectual in an occupied country of the French empire studied Marxism and formed communist parties - just like any of the ‘oppressed’. His Declaration of Independences version of “all men are created equal” was intended
to have a US flavour, but his “American friends” couldn’t help him with that, and as time changed after WW2 the US changed their “anti colonial” point of view to the fear of the communist domino effect
Their fears handed Vietnam (as well as much of South East Asia) towards China and therefore Russia
As I live in Salisbury, and around a couple of corners from Christie Miller Drive, I’m clearly no fan of Putin
To make things more personal Dawn as my ex PAs sister
That kills anything Russian related to me, and I do wince when I see someone putting Russian kit into the classifieds, but that’s my personal issue
As another aside, in a different forum there were known Russian trolls operating, all currently on bans - their presence has been tolerated to enable disinformation to be countered, with regular suspensions for line crossing. With their knowledge on my circumstances they have pushed my buttons more than once and been subject to extreme breaches of forum rules for which I have not been penalised for. I’ve clearly been given a lot of leeway on that subject
