https://flicense.blogspot.co.nz/2018/04/these-22-knuckle-guns-are-french.html
.. I mentioned how "les Poilu" - the brave French front-line soldiers - had registered their protests at yet another futile attack into the mouth of enemy machine-guns - by bleating Baaah, Baaah, as they ran forward to indicate that they "were going - as lambs to the slaughter".
German WWI MG08/15 Machine Gun. (Known As The Light Maxim?)
French losses in WWI totaled some 1.4 Million at the rate of 900 men killed each day. I looked-up this battle in Wikipedia and it's an entry well worth reading.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemin_des_Dames
- Desperate slaughter of working people to gain control of territory for their masters ..
It clearly illustrates (again) how the "Ruling Classes" claim their natural superiority gives them a God Given Right to drive their inferiors to die violently in their tens of millions.
In European countries they repeatedly drove their 'subjects' to the slaughter while disputing ownership of land / wealth with their 'royal' cousin neighbors - and their priests blessed both sides.
- Today most countries have kicked-out these anachronisms from any positions of rule .. but the buggers keep trying to creep back and to re-establish privileged regimes again (tyranny = the opposite of democracy).
Look at Putin in Russia .. It's only 100 years since the Russian vassals terminated their then owners - the Romanov Tzars, on July 16/17 1918 .. and they've just allowed another leader up onto the palace thrones.
Pete Seeger wrote & sung ..
Where have all the soldiers gone, long time passing?
Where have all the soldiers gone, long time ago?
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Gone to graveyards, everyone.
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Marty K.
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