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Cheka (December 1917) GPU (February 1922) OGPU (July 1923) GUGB (July 1934) GUGB (July 1941) NKGB (April 1943) MGB (March 1946) MVD (March 1953) Good, God, there were more acronyms than I realized. I maintain these numerous name changes represented an well conceived strategy designed to demoralize the Russian populace. Change, even nominalistic change, can be exceedingly disconcerting. Lenin and, to far greater degree, Stalin, were a master psychologists, veritable scientists of human nature.

Speaking of acronyms... Cheka> NKGB>MGB>KGB. The Communists loved to keep their citizens off balance. Smart tactic! The KGB's successors are the secret police agency FSB (Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation) and the espionage agency SVR.

Will the moment of firing be determined by the player? Or the TacAI? If the former the player will always choose to open up, side effects be damned. The payoff is just too juicy. If the latter is this behavior most common among Green and/or highly motivated/fanatical troops? One suspects the grizzled vet, considering the cost/benefit ratio, proved more hesitant. It's great the urban defender has more options, but, examined closely, this enhancement may degrade realism. Every source indicates that firing these weapons from within structures was not considered optimal- though it definitely happened. Which explains why BF took so long to put it in.

But it will be German tanks doing the smoking. PIATs were always able to shoot from bldgs. Keep moving, nothing to see here.

I've been under the barrel of a gun twice, as well. The first time was in a Los Angeles liquor store in the 70s, late at night. There were 6 or 7 customers. A skinny, diminutive Hispanic dude entered brandished a pistol and shouted out 'everybody on the floor!' We complied. I noticed he was busy going customer to customer demanding to see their wallets. My wallet was in my hand so I surreptitiously removed several twenties and stuffed them in my pants, leaving a few ones in the billfold. He finally got to me and stuck his gun, hands trembling, against my temple. I handed him the wallet. He grabbed the ones, tossed the wallet and left. Most lunatic thing I've ever done. The second time my ex-wife and I were strolling in our middle class, low crime neighborhood also late at night. We're were getting ready to buy a car and stopped to check out a 4Runner parked in a driveway a few houses down. A white guy came roaring out of the house with a shotgun, yelling 'Freeze!'. We froze. He eventually let us go. Turns out he was an off duty LA cop. We wondered whether the fact that my wife was half-African set him off.

So, Bil, what are the best tactics when taking on you? Not merely placement and maneuver considerations but also any personal weaknesses, eccentricities or quirks. Color blindness? Thanks in advance!

Haha, great conceit there, JK.

Nice weapon, Baron. And lovingly maintained, it appears. One reads that there's considerable support for liberalizing gun laws in Russia: Right to bear arms -- in Russia? POSTED BY DAVID HARDY · 14 AUGUST 2005 04:20 PM An interesting article from the Russian News and Information Agency, on liberalizing Russian gun laws. (How strange that sounds to those of us who grew up during the Cold War! Almost as strange as reading an article about Europeans calling for adoption of American gun laws, so they can defend themselves). The writer notes that Russian law allows only possession of a few types of guns, with permit processes that make New York City sound easy, but, still, at least 10 times as many Russians own guns as they did under the Soviet regime. "[T]he public in Russia is increasingly leaning towards a more liberal law on weapons. For the last half a year the State Duma has been discussing the possibility of giving the people real firearms, as is done in the United States, for one. American statistics are the main argument of Russian firearms advocates. According to the U.S. Justice Department, 34% of all criminals were wounded or detained by armed civilians, while 40% have altogether given up an idea of an attack for fear of reciprocal fire. In those states that allow citizens to carry concealed arms, the level of murders is lower by 33 %, and of robberies by 37%. Advocates of legalizing firearms in Russia often refer to the experience of neighboring Latvia: After the relevant law was adopted, street crime dropped by 80%, and the Latvian police force has been cut."

In the mid-sixties I was hospitalized in New York with pneumonia. I was about 12. I shared a room with a man, fortyish, attached to an IV and possessing a decided German accent. He was intermittently chatty, relating that he had been in the Hitler Youth before emigrating to the US. One day my dad came to visit and, having served under Patton in N. Africa and Sicily, questioned the man about his wartime experiences. But the German proved closed off on the subject. My father then brought up the unfortunate fate of the Jews. The man exploded, detailed the various crimes against civilization committed by that group and terminated the exchange with the remark 'Who cares about the Jews?'. He never addressed me another word. Months later my mother informed me she read in the local paper that the German had been arrested on a 'morals charge'. The second encounter took place at the neighborood tennis club a few years later. One of the members was a German-American who had served in a Wehrmacht tank unit. He admitted joining the party as a teenager but deplored the Nazi regime for its crimes, swearing he had no idea what was going on- meaning the death camps. He was in his early twenties when the war ended. I believed him. Then he said something which I'll never forget: '*****, Americans (paraphrasing) who judge us for what we young Germans did do so unjustly. When the Nazis came in the economy improved. And they have no idea how thrilling and seductive it all was; the rallies, the pageantry, the comradeship. In retrospect it was a lie, but you had to be there. What would you have done?'

This fellow was: free upload http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_P%C3%A9tomane

Perhaps when the tiny number of those remaining Nazis who were complicit in those crimes have passed away? There should be a statute of limitations on the stigmas applicable to the sins of our grandfathers. Some of us have in the states have owning ancestors. We don't feel guilty. That was a long ago. And we weren't there.

Or you can purchase this patch replica: imag With a cross!? What's the point? It's German website, yes, but it's been going on 70 years since WW2. Time to get over this self-flagellation? Yeah, we know, you're really, REALLY sorry. Communist paraphernalia is freely available in Russia. And their crimes... Discuss.

Steve says he misses it too. So stay tuned. The solution always seemed rather simple to me: Hiding troops= maximum concealment. Hiding troops + Cover Arc = Ambush. And slightly less concealment.

LOL, Law & Order, the holocaust of white dudes. In the early seasons the show reflected the ethnic/racial reality in NYC crime a la The Shield. But the suits were apparently unhappy with the ratings so they got with the program. From Steve Sailor's blog: More white murderers on "Law & Orders" than in real NYC? I've never seen it confirmed, but it strikes me as pretty obvious that the TV franchise "Law & Order," which debuted in 1990, was heavily influenced by Tom Wolfe's 1987 bestselling novel Bonfire of the Vanities. Wolfe's novel is about NYC detectives and prosecutors, bored and depressed by arresting and convicting countless poor minorities, hunting down for fun and political profit The Great White Defendant, rich white guy Sherman McCoy. "Law & Order" is the irony-free version of Bonfire, with the first half hour consisting of detectives arresting a rich white person and the second half hour consisting of the prosecutors torturing the law to come up with some absurd justification for charging the defendant with homicide. This formula has made L&O perhaps the biggest franchise in television history. A reader writes It might be an interesting factoid for an article that there are more white murderers plotted on Law & Order (all editions) than there are actual white murderers in New York City. There were 572 murders in New York City last year. We know that only 10% of violent crimes in NYC were committed by non-Hispanic whites, so if the same is true for homicides in particular, that's 57 white murders. There are three "Law and Orders," I think, with about 25 episodes per season with, say, 80% being white. That's 60 white New York murderers on one set of shows compared to about 57 in all of the real world New York. Anyway, I bet it's close.

Speaking of the EU, Big Brother is warching: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/road-safety/10278702/EU-plans-to-fit-all-cars-with-speed-limiters.html But it's for your own good!

There appears to be zero cover for the inf units in your test.

There are hedgerows in Holland?

The Allied High Command can best been seen as a bird cage, crammed with dueling egos, drama queens and prima donnas. Not just Montgomery and Patton, many of them, even Bradley. That was the impression I got in Rick Atkinson's book on Italy and only confirmed by his Western Front account which I'm currently reading. And Ken is right- Eisenhower was a pleaser, a leader insecure with his bona fides as a field commander. Market Garden was a bold concept but too many imponderables had to come together. And staggeringly out of character for Montgomery given his oh-so-careful operational history.

Yes, that was Michael Chiklis. LOL, almost typed Dukakis. Height is the first thing I notice when meeting a celeb, inevitable in Los Angeles. I'm 6'1" easily 3-4 inches taller than Sutherland. But he's not Tom Cruise short. In the late 70s I shook hands with Charlton Heston at his Coldwater Canyon spread. My sister was sponsoring a charity tennis event and he had been playing on his private court. Heston was a huge guy, 6'3" plus with the shoulders of a linebacker. He was followed around by a tiny black servant bearing a tray holding a pitcher of martinis and glasses cum olives. His booming, Mt. Sinai voice was unforgettable.

And- referencing Youtube videos- this sim has AFVs which lay down tread marks! A feature so cruelly missing from CM.

That was Season 6 when 24, in network parlance, 'jumped the shark'. 24 isn't for everybody. There's a decided fantasy element present. Aficionados of rigorous realism should check out The Wire. Or the gaudy Shield which reveled in depicting L.A.'s violent underclass as it really is. Political correctness be damned. My current favorite is Breaking Bad- fantastic writing, plotting and characterizations. But everyone alive digs that show. We're living in the Golden Age of episodic TV series. I should mention that I and a friend ran into Kiefer Sutherland in a supermarket parking lot last year.He was busy loading his SUV with grocery bags. To my mortification my friend requested an autograph which he graciously supplied. He's a skinny, shortish dude which was surprising. His father, Donald Sutherland, is 6'4". I'll have to take your word for it. Every disc I got from Netflix had playback issues.

True. A platoon- 30+ men- that surrenders would be a traumatic event for all but the most humongous CM engagements. But not a squad. Presently you seen one, two, 'maybe' three guys getting down on their knees in situations deemed hopeless. 9-12 soldiers , that's another story. Painful to the owner, but you'd see more plausible casualty* results at battle's end. And throw in some AWOLs who simply bugged out. *Determining actual K/W stats seems a murky undertaking in CM. Never mind what the final screen says.

When we gonna see this?

This is the sort of English grammar up with which I will not put.

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