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March 4, 2014
Those memorable photo ops...
Furtwangler's reputation will never live down this photo op with his patron Adolf Hitler:
Karajan's reputation will be forever tarnished by his Nazi Party ID card:
I hope the eager musical serfs of today's tyrants will pay a similar price:
Last time I looked, Chavez was democratically elected. Of course the rich and the US don't like him - but they never liken anyone who stands up for the poor
fred's right about hitler & stalin: hitler was *appointed* by german president paul von hindenberg. stalin was *selected* by the central committee of the communist party of the soviet union. neither was elected by the man in the street. -a.v.
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Add the one of Alfred Cortot yucking it up with some Nazis at The Ritz in Paris/
Last time I looked, Chavez was democratically elected. Of course the rich and the US don't like him - but they never liken anyone who stands up for the poor
FRED said...
Last time I looked, Chavez was democratically elected.
*******
So were Hitler and Stalin - each and every time they ran for office...
Ah, no, they werent
fred's right about hitler & stalin: hitler was *appointed* by german president paul von hindenberg. stalin was *selected* by the central committee of the communist party of the soviet union. neither was elected by the man in the street. -a.v.
Hey, Fred,
I think you need to take a close look at what you undertand to be a "democratic" election, and then look at the travesties of that term in Venezuela.
You are committing a gross libel on Furtwaengler who, at worst, one can accuse of being politically naive.
And to call Hitler his "patron"....
I suggest reading Schoenzler's biography.
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