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Falklands War: People
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The Falklands War exemplified what one historian has called the 'myriad faces of war'. It was the last war which Britain fought outside a coalition or an international organisation, and, far from being marginal to Britain's key role as part of the defence system against the Soviet threat, it held a mirror up to the face of the British people in the late twentieth century.
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An exhibition of Russian photos - all taken by Russian photographers - from World War II called “People Who Won the War” to be shown at Lee College’s McNulty-Haddick Complex Art Gallery. The Nazis completely destroyed 1,710 Soviet cities and towns and 70,000 villages, which left 25 million people homeless. Among the armed forces in WWII, Russia suffered the most casualties, with 6.1 million deaths. The next largest number of casualties were born by Germany with 3.3 million; China with 1.3 million; Japan with 1.3 million; US with 407,000; UK with 357,000; and Italy with 136,000.
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"The war was improvised," says Alonso. "The junta wanted the invasion to distract people from resistance to the regime." On March 30, 1982, the unions had called for a mass demonstration against the dictatorship. Three days later, the Argentinian invasion of the Malvinas began. "We were cannon fodder in a war we couldn't win."
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Bates, NIPQ 13.3, calls this "an authoritative book about intelligence" in the Falklands War. The book includes "an excruciatingly detailed technical description of the sinking of HMS Sheffield" by an Argentine Exocet missile. West provides "an interesting description of the British intelligence system and how it functioned, or did not function, in the crucial weeks before the Argentine invasion." He "is not kind" to the Franks report, "nor to the people the report is about." A similar review by Bates is carried in AIJ 17.3/4.
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Today the war is considered a national humiliation, just like the dictatorship under which about 30,000 people "disappeared." "Most Argentinians have never been to the Malvinas. The war hardly touched them," says sociologist Pedro Brieger. The veterans received no pension until 1991 and many were forced to go begging. They collected money for wheelchairs and artificial limbs on the suburban trains and buses of Buenos Aires.
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A Nazi war criminal's contribution to medicine is being slowly written out of the medical record. Until a few decades ago, "Reiter's syndrome" was the term used to describe a certain disorder. It was named after German doctor Hans Reiter, who ran Hitler's Reich Health Office, and during the second world war designed typhoid inoculation experiments that killed more than 250 people. He was ... implicated in enforced sterilisations and euthanasia.
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