Seventy-five years ago today, January 30, 1933, thousands of Germans thronged government quarters in Berlin in celebration of Adolf Hitler becoming Reichskanzler.
Today Mikhail Gorbachev sharply criticises the current Russian presidential election campaign.
"Something is going wrong with our elections, and our electoral system needs a major adjustment," he has complained.
When people criticise the EU they should be clear in their minds of the advantages it has brought Europe.
It is highly unlikely that an 'Adolf Hitler' would get away with it in the EU and modern Russia would not be able to behave as it does were it in the EU.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Featured Post
Ms Bell Burnell passed over for the Nobel Prize
This week’s article in The Kerryman newspaper. Michael Commane The second guest on RTÉ’s Tommy Tiernan Show on Saturday March 29 was Lurgan ...
-
Benedict Gerard Hegarty was Fr Benedict Hegarty OP born in Passage West, Co Cork on February 13, 1937. He attended Christian Brothers Colleg...
-
Michael O’Hare joined the Michael O'Hare Dominican Order after his Leaving Cert at Synge Street CBS. On completion of the noviciate in P...
-
John O’Rourke was born in Newry on November 14, 1939. He joined the Dominican Order in September 1958 and was ordained a priest in July 1965...
No comments:
Post a Comment