Hanna's War-- a very good movie on Amazon Prime--1944, Hungary, Jews--

The Diaries of Hanna Senesh--introduction by Marge Piercy. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Hannah_Senesh/0_q9ZbC-eZEC?hl=en&gbpv=1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna%27s_War

Movie lost money big time, but it still remains excellent.

Yoel Palgi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoel_Palgi

In Burma I gave lectures on Isreali Kibbutzim, believe it or not, while talking about Soviet and Chinese collective farms.

Professor of Agricultural Ecos and Dept Head, U Tha Hto and I were once examiners for a DEP Diploma on Eco. Planning student's paper--

At one point Saya "Guru" U Tha Hto said, "Why, this is an account of all the livestock that died at the co-ops."

I attempted to keep a straight face.

For some reason, the poeple who planned these things paired me with U Tha Hto.

Another time one student who worked at a State-Owned enterprise started to tell us of all the antiquue sculptures that the Navy officer in charge had taken home.

One time one summer during one of the "re-embelishment" classes, all our staff seemed rushing off to U Tha Hto's classes.

"You have to come listen," one tutor told me, "he's talking about the junta,"

But I didn't go.

In Poland where I was 8 months winter of 1968-69, we were taken to a co-op farm, where the food was much better than at the dorms.

A friend also took me to a blackmarket across the Vistula River, when I could not find a coat at the State Store, and winter was coming.

That's why I don't believe in central planning.

But I don't believe in totally free markets or the profit motive either.

I don't believe in God either.

Kyi May Kaung

11-30-2024

Memorial near Krakow, Poland.

Mauthausen inmates welcome US Forces, May 1945