Collectivists at The New Republic celebrate the Molotov Cocktail -- and the headline writer rewrites history and his own story.
The Anti-Nazi Roots of the Molotov Cocktail Hurled on Ferguson's Streets
In the winter of 1939, after seizing eastern Poland and leaving the country’s west to the Third Reich, the Soviets invaded Finland. Molotov (“Hammer” in Russian) then said in a speech, “Tomorrow we will dine in Helsinki!” After Soviet bombs began to fall on Finnish troops, Molotov insisted that the Soviets were dropping food and drink instead. Exhibiting a keen wit, the Finns thus dubbed Soviet cluster bombs “Molotov bread baskets” (the food) and named the improvised weapons that they were using against Soviet armor “Molotov cocktails" (the drink).
Leave to the collectivists of the 21st Century to rewrite an anti-Soviet weapon into an "anti-Nazi" weapon.
2 comments:
This tidbit from the article was surprising:
"Fast forward to today in the United States. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms considers Molotov cocktails a “destructive device” under the National Firearms Act. This does not mean that the weapon is banned—only that you must register your Molotov cocktail with the ATF."
So, you're telling me that if I had an unregistered SBR, I'd get the same penalty as all these protestors who have been making Destructive Devices in Ferguson?
Hmm.....sounds like we should all just own whatever NFA item we want. I haven't heard of a single, solitary case of ATF charging any of these rioting douche bags with violation of NFA so far.....
Somehow, I doubt we'd get off so easy.
Then there's the fact that Finland actually allied itself with the Axis during the Continuation War. Granted, they weren't NAZIs and did it for military reasons (the threat of getting trampled by Soviets tends to motivate someone to have odd bedfellows)
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