I suppose tweets like the one in question drive home Marx's famous dictum (on the first page of his 18th of Brumaire, written in 1853, if memory serves) about history repeating itself: next to Soviet and Nazi WW2 propaganda, the above stunt looks extra-amateurish and, yes, even more removed from reality than either historical antecedent.
Quoth Voltaire (!):
'Certainly anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.' (from his Questions sur les miracles, 1765)
This quote has typically be rendered into the following in English:
'Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.'
Woke-ipedia's editors are getting sloppy. While they highlight the "ukrainian front"-bit, they've forgotten to edit out this:
"A large number of lootings and cases of rape took place in a several-week long violence that has been compared to the worst aspects of the Thirty Years War."
Committed by said "ukrainian front" against civilians. Perhaps Vasel Khymynets would be intrested in commenting on that, if some journo would dare mention it.
Of course, those were committed by the few unwashed Russians who somehow made into this Ukrainian front. Don't we all love "team work" - take credit for all the good things to yourself, and blame another for the failings. The "rapes" and "lootings" story were written when ALL ex-Soviets were bad-bad, the narrative has shifted too fast to make proper adjustments.
I guess I shouldn't bring up Britain using poison gas against soviet soliders and civilians when Britain interfered in the Russian Civil War (aka Revolution)?
Or british and US troops operating in german uniforms during WW2, which is a war crime. Or indiscriminate bombings carried out by Allies. Or when the USSR bombed Stockholm because soviet spies ha been arreste in Sweden. Or...
Gee, the world must be so much simpler when you can just see it as Good vs. Evil an always sort yourself on the Good side, don't you think?
(Not attacking you, just bringing up more examples of how nuanced reality actually is beyond politics and media...)
In today's Ukraine proper, however, WWII veterans are harassed and prosecuted now, as it's fully Nazi Bandera-aligned. The mental illness is at full display
"Sexism is good when it serves our purpose - just redefine the word so normie won't notice, AND we can use the new definition to beat down normie - double win!"
"Wow that works well, let's do this with a bunch of other things..."
I confess to still being taken aback by the increasingly blatant Orwellian revisionism.
Hahahaha, yes, that, too.
I suppose tweets like the one in question drive home Marx's famous dictum (on the first page of his 18th of Brumaire, written in 1853, if memory serves) about history repeating itself: next to Soviet and Nazi WW2 propaganda, the above stunt looks extra-amateurish and, yes, even more removed from reality than either historical antecedent.
Quoth Voltaire (!):
'Certainly anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.' (from his Questions sur les miracles, 1765)
This quote has typically be rendered into the following in English:
'Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.'
Quite apt.
Liberated is one way to put it.
Woke-ipedia's editors are getting sloppy. While they highlight the "ukrainian front"-bit, they've forgotten to edit out this:
"A large number of lootings and cases of rape took place in a several-week long violence that has been compared to the worst aspects of the Thirty Years War."
Committed by said "ukrainian front" against civilians. Perhaps Vasel Khymynets would be intrested in commenting on that, if some journo would dare mention it.
Excellent point.
We could add that to, say, the 'liberation of Baghdad' by US-led Coalition forces in 2003, too.
Of course, those were committed by the few unwashed Russians who somehow made into this Ukrainian front. Don't we all love "team work" - take credit for all the good things to yourself, and blame another for the failings. The "rapes" and "lootings" story were written when ALL ex-Soviets were bad-bad, the narrative has shifted too fast to make proper adjustments.
Ooops, I forgot.
I guess I shouldn't bring up Britain using poison gas against soviet soliders and civilians when Britain interfered in the Russian Civil War (aka Revolution)?
Or british and US troops operating in german uniforms during WW2, which is a war crime. Or indiscriminate bombings carried out by Allies. Or when the USSR bombed Stockholm because soviet spies ha been arreste in Sweden. Or...
Gee, the world must be so much simpler when you can just see it as Good vs. Evil an always sort yourself on the Good side, don't you think?
(Not attacking you, just bringing up more examples of how nuanced reality actually is beyond politics and media...)
So true...
In today's Ukraine proper, however, WWII veterans are harassed and prosecuted now, as it's fully Nazi Bandera-aligned. The mental illness is at full display
"Sexism is good when it serves our purpose - just redefine the word so normie won't notice, AND we can use the new definition to beat down normie - double win!"
"Wow that works well, let's do this with a bunch of other things..."
Racism [✓]
Nationalism [✓]
I wonder what's next...
Humanism, perhaps?
And with the typographical accuracy of a child when it comes to ordinal numbers:
13.April / 2. Ukrainische / 3.Ukrainische