Yana Mintoff
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Yana Mintoff (aka Joan Mintoff Bland) is a political activist, economist[1] and educator.[2] Joan Mintoff was born on 21 August 1951, the daughter of the former Prime Minister of Malta, Dom Mintoff and Moyra De Vere Bentinck, by whom she is descended from both Dutch and British nobility.[3]
In 1968, at the age of 17, Yana Mintoff, travelled to Czechoslovakia on her own, outraged by the Soviet occupation of that country and its harsh repression. She worked at Olomouc as a youth volunteer and opposed the Soviet military presence.
In 1973 to 1974, while working as a teacher in Greece, she was swept up in the student protests against the oppressive military Junta that had taken power in a CIA-backed coup. She was amongst the students who were attacked by the army outside the Athens Polytechnic. Many students were killed and she was shot at three times before managing to escape.

[Daphne – There goes Patty Hearst.]

Kenneth, the economic and social problems that we are all experiencing today pale into insignificance when compared to those under the Mintoff/KMB regime.

You say that Mintoff left a healthy economy behind him.

Mintoff left no economy behind him. It was all scorched earth.

Kenneth, you either were not around then or else you are an utter and complete imbecile.

You sound to me to be of average intelligemce.

Therefore I conclude that you did not live as a thinking adult in the seventies and eighties, certainly not in Malta.

Nahseb li dan huwa Spiteri minn tas-Sliema li gej minn familija Nazzjonalita u sej johrogg bhala kandidat Laborista fuq it-tielet distrett. Jekk m’ghandix zball dan huwa dentist.

Thanks.

High time that this blog showed some graphic pictures of how Maltese doctors were dragged forcefully out of St Luke’s and manhandled by an assortment of Labour Ministers and their pet thugs in 1977.

It may help squash the Socialsit-Mintoffian myth that is still perpetuated today at regular intervals on ONE media that the wicked Maltese doctors ABANDONED their patients at St Luke’s during strike action for better pay.

Today’s young people have a right to know what REALLY went on during the reign of Yana Mintoff Bland’s dear daddy.

Aktar vedikazzjonijiet li Mintoff ghamel lit tobba MALTIN ;

Illegizla biex tobba MALTIN li jigu min barra biex jahdmu Malta kellom ta’ bil-fors jaghmlu sentejn jahdmu li sptar u bhala garanzija kellom JIPOTEKAW FAVUR IL-GVERN TA’ MALTA propjeta’ sa ghaxart elef lira Maltin.

Multi u penali horox lt- tobba MALTIN jahdmu l’ isptar jekk jinqabdu jahdmu privat wara il-hin, anke jekk dawn ikunu ilhom snin twal li iggradwaw .

Tobba MALTIN kienu imhallsa ferm anqas bit-tobba strike- breakers barranin.

TRIDX TMUR JEKK MINTOFF KIENX VENDIKATTIV JEW LE!

1) Your father must be the only prime minister ever to have said “F * * * the Constitution” (interesting that he didn’t say that when that same constitution gave him the right to govern with an absolute minority of votes, on the contrary, he waved the same constitution in our faces).

2) As one who took part in broadcasts on ‘Studio Master’, your father declared me “an enemy of the people”, inciting his rabble to mete out vigilante “justice”. But hey, he wasn’t being vindictive or violent was he?

You should just thank your lucky stars that you have the freedom we never did, especially after your father virtually murdered it in cold blood and we slowly and painfully saved it and gave it back to Malta. You don’t deserve it.

Bravu Spock, spot on. Nixtieq inzid kemm hu ironiku il-fatt li wiehed mill-ftit tal-ewwel li fetah klinika privata, wara li it-tobba tkeccew il-barra, kien il ministru tas-sahha Dr. Censu Moran. Fetah business minn fuq il-tbatija tal-poplu Malti.

Why try and demonise the Labour Party on the eve of the next general election if not to try and distract the electorate on the economic and social problems that we are all experiencing today?

[Daphne – The film does not demonise the Labour Party. It isn’t even about the Labour Party. As for demonising Mintoff, I have not watched it myself, but a comment I’ve heard from many is that it’s far too soft on him and does not convey fully the true suffocating oppression and fear of the times we lived through. It’s difficult to capture that on film.]

Mintoff was what he was 25 years ago … Today is today. The electorate today is concerned with the way government is handling our economy and not what Mintoff said or did quarter of a century ago.

Evil as he is depicted, he left a healthy economy behind him and introduced break through social services that are still considered as being the pillars of the society that we live in today.

[Daphne – Kenneth, he did not leave a healthy economy. His legacy was a country with its back broken, and an economy in stagnation, with fearsome levels of unemployment and people living in fear. Don’t believe the lies you’re told. Find out for yourself. I don’t have to, because I lived through it.]

I honestly believe that we owe the man some gratitude for his avant garde politics and although there where some rough periods the foundations of our democracy today are primarily due to his timely interventions.

[Daphne – Kenneth, when you haven’t lived through something, the clever thing to do is to research it and not rely on what you are told by fellow-travellers. How do I know you didn’t live through it? Because if you had, you wouldn’t sound so naive and….innocent.]