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CRUISE

My previous nom de plume was Cruise. However, in February, 2006 I changed my Misplaced Pages skin. This turned out to be an utter disaster from which I was not able to recover and had to create new David Cruise user page.

War cycles

I read with interest your article on War cycles and wikified it. Welcome abroad and looking forward to more interesting articles from sociology area! --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 17:40, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

Matrix addition

Thank you for your work on matrix addition. Oleg Alexandrov 02:22, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the translation

Hey, thanks a lot for translating those verses. It's a nice poem! HollyAm 04:01, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for Lída Baarová and Zorka Janů

These are high quality articles. Pavel Vozenilek 18:30, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Klement Gottwald

There is couple of Domašov's in the Czech Republic, one of them is less than 50 km from Dědice where Gottwald was born (again couple of villages of the same name exists). There's also one Domašov in Jeseník District in northern Moravia.

During 1651 - 1684 inquisitor Boblig from Edelstadt (Jindřich František Boblig z Edelstadtu, Franz Heinrich Boblig von Edelstadt, 1614 - 1696) let burn 112 people on the stake in northern Moravia, around Jeseník and Šumperk. (Another article I plan to write but have no time.) This withcraft trial was probably the largest one on area of today's Czech Republic and surely the most known (a book, a movie, the name of Boblig is used as synonym of inquisitor).

Gottwald (from German God + forest) is not uncommon name among Czechs. I do not know how many genealogical details were written in parish records.

Out of hand, I would consider the relation as unlikely or hard to prove reliably. Pavel Vozenilek 13:54, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

About the US bombers in Czechoslovakia: is this sourced reliably? I've never read about anything like that. Czechoslovakia sold weapons to Israel (as a proxy of Soviet Union, not against their wish) and trained few dozens of pilots. Žatec airport served for transport of part of the material from the end of 1947 till beginning of 1949. Flights of US bombers from Central Europe to Middle East to bomb are not mentioned.

Picking up Rudolf Slánský, as currently presented, was because Gottwald needed to sacrify someone visible to show loyality (and didn't want to sacrify himself) so he picked man #2. The Jewry conspiracy was only part of the trials, the people were accused from every possible sin and everything was used for propaganda purposes.

The purges were not limited to the Prague Trials (these one was popularized by the media) but covered whole part of the population and were systematic. Preparations were made for campaign into Western Europe (see Alexej Čepička), purges were part of these prepartions. Pavel Vozenilek 17:05, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

I do not think the info will stay there for long. First the info about Stalin's death is quite offtopic here (and it is already mentioned on Stalin's page), the info about bombing missions belong to a page about history. Rumors about Gottwald being poisoned had appeared immediatelly after his death but were never proven then and it is not disputed even now. An article (in Czech) describes the death and the rumors. It is backed by cs:Vladimír Nálevka, a university professor and historian specialising on recent history. I'll try to check as much as I can but it may take days or weeks. Pavel Vozenilek 19:45, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Otakar Vávra

I did partial rework of the article. I'd removed the details on torture and torture devices: although Vávra was not afraid to show rivers of blood or people burned alive in a shed the Malleus Maleficarum was quite free of violence - the effect was reached by other means.

The witch trial, although exceptionally murderous, quite fits the period when Catholic church tried to exterminate remnants of Protestantism in Czech lands - this included forced resettlements, inprisonment or sending people for long army service and reducing older privileges of the peasantry.

If you find a time to look at the new page, please correct the grammatical mistakes - my English is too often called atrocious. Pavel Vozenilek 23:01, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Re:Witch trial

I will, but I am rather short on time ATM. I'd recommend you look at Misplaced Pages:Dispute resolution page - it should list many dedicated mediators and such.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 01:34, 6 March 2006 (UTC)