Ukraine Thread

[Gilrandir]

For the last time, Gilrandir. I accept that the Ukrainians are mad at the Reds and the Russians for stopping them more than once from exercising their favorite national sport, Jews-hunting.

You are right. Ukrainians were so good at hunting Jews that now we have the Jewish prime minister who stepped down (or up?) from being the Head of the Parliament, and the President with Jewish roots. A very anti-semitic country Ukraine is.

Sincerely speaking, vandalizing a statue of Lenin or a Red Army monument is a better way to honor his memory than comparing Soviet posters, coats and toothpastes with German ones, in front of what I'd describe as well-educated and critically thinking audience.

Sure, Communists were angels embodied:

http://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/06/wo...ss-graves.html
https://communismblog.wordpress.com/...-kiev-ukraine/

Not at all like nazis.

The problem is that the bad stuff done by the one side is much, much, much more despicable and lethal than the bombing of Dresden and the rape of some German ladies in East Germany.

So killing people in Buchenwald is despicable, while bombing Dresden or Hiroshima is not? I see. The despicality is meted out depending on the doer of a murder. As well as raping.

I get it, the collaborators and their national descendants are trying hard to distort what commense sense makes obvious to anyone with more than two brain cells, in a futile attempt to justify the lynching of Jews and the burning to the ground of Polish villages.

For the last time, I didn't justify any crime. For the last time, the category of collaborators includes practically all Europeans nations and their leaders.

However, our education system hasn't collapsed entirely yet, so the majority isn't going to buy it.

The education system in the USSR (that taught me and is still considered to be one of the best in the world) claimed that Prague was liberated by Konev's army who, having recieved a pleading of the insurgent Czechs, made a battle march and in a couple of days reached the city and delivered it from the nazis. And now I discovered that it was the collaborators who evicted nazis from Prague. WTF? Conclusion: education (especially teaching history) is very often grounded on myths, slantings and exaggerations.

No need to waste our precious time discussing these matter, right?

Then don't waste it, live the myths and half-truths.