I just love how nobody ever has to visit Ukraine or Cambodia or Rwanda when engaging in genocidal rhetoric against supposedly "privileged" groups. Even now, when everybody's expected to pretend like Ukraine's government dindu nuffin and was attacked by Russia because Putin's just a big meanie, Holodomor denial is still kosher.
Drives me nuts because the Holodomor gives a lot more moral weight to the Ukrainian side, it would be nice to be able to finally acknowledge that Stalin really was just as bad as Hitler (arguably even worse). But nah, at a time when Putin's government is promoting historical revisionism in an attempt at rehabilitating Stalin's image, we still get nothing from Hollywood, from public school curriculum, from mainstream documentaries and "infotainment." Let alone anything depicting the mass murder, torture, and rape of civilians by Soviet forces, the mercilessness with which Soviet conscripts were sent to their deaths, the fact that we now know Stalin was planning on invading Europe which prompted Operation Barbarossa in the first place, etc.
Really makes you think, our media and schooling apparatus has always kicked into high gear to get the public to see our geopolitical adversaries as monsters. Yet for some reason, there's almost nothing being produced about the horrors of the Bolsheviks, the gulags, the Holodomor or Stalin in general, or about the horrors of the Cultural Revolution considering that China is getting more bold with throwing their military weight around.
Have you been to the Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh? It is worth a trip.
The museum itself used to be a school that was used by the Khmer Rouge as a facility to torture countless people to death.
I am an Aussie and Australia is quite close, geographically, to Cambodia. I was growing up when the Khmer Rouge was exterminating 40% of the population of that nation, and it wasn't mentioned even once.
He’s gonna have to look at so many piles of shoes.
I just love how nobody ever has to visit Ukraine or Cambodia or Rwanda when engaging in genocidal rhetoric against supposedly "privileged" groups. Even now, when everybody's expected to pretend like Ukraine's government dindu nuffin and was attacked by Russia because Putin's just a big meanie, Holodomor denial is still kosher.
Drives me nuts because the Holodomor gives a lot more moral weight to the Ukrainian side, it would be nice to be able to finally acknowledge that Stalin really was just as bad as Hitler (arguably even worse). But nah, at a time when Putin's government is promoting historical revisionism in an attempt at rehabilitating Stalin's image, we still get nothing from Hollywood, from public school curriculum, from mainstream documentaries and "infotainment." Let alone anything depicting the mass murder, torture, and rape of civilians by Soviet forces, the mercilessness with which Soviet conscripts were sent to their deaths, the fact that we now know Stalin was planning on invading Europe which prompted Operation Barbarossa in the first place, etc.
Really makes you think, our media and schooling apparatus has always kicked into high gear to get the public to see our geopolitical adversaries as monsters. Yet for some reason, there's almost nothing being produced about the horrors of the Bolsheviks, the gulags, the Holodomor or Stalin in general, or about the horrors of the Cultural Revolution considering that China is getting more bold with throwing their military weight around.
Have you been to the Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh? It is worth a trip.
The museum itself used to be a school that was used by the Khmer Rouge as a facility to torture countless people to death.
I am an Aussie and Australia is quite close, geographically, to Cambodia. I was growing up when the Khmer Rouge was exterminating 40% of the population of that nation, and it wasn't mentioned even once.
I haven't, but I plan on doing so in the future.