@debrecenisrac46.bsky.social: Until Churchill sponsored the white book. Stalin's response was so swift that the movie battle of Berlin had to be hastily rewritten to paint the western allies in cahoots with the Nazis from the start to try and discredit the Katyn massacre among other things.

Your regular reminder that I personally loathe Noam Chomsky for the reprehensible things he said in apologia for the Khmer Rouge - and has never really taken back. He was no friend to the Cambodian people. (Not to mention his stance on Ukraine).

Makes me sad that folks on the left like him, ngl.

It does indicate someone who perhaps has not done nearly as much research as they like to think they have

It's a bit funny because how quick the left usually is to cut people loose for failing purity tests, but there's always the few who manage to get into the state of grace where the test must be wrong.

Tbh the left is pretty fucking awful at enforcing the “supporting Russia/genocides committed by vaguely leftist seeming countries” purity test nowadays

If your leftism isn't fundamentally centered on the idea of human dignity and freedom as universal and immutable values of everyone, frankly, what is the fucking point of your philosophy.

I have had leftists screaming at me about Gaza who seem to have not one care about what Putin is doing in Ukraine.

Yeah, it’s maddening. The Ukraine people who don’t give a shit about Gaza are also maddening, though there seem to be less of them here.

Well, even if they don't do that some accuse the UN and red cross of kidnapping people into Russia. This is because post cold war Ukrainians are unaware Russians have no qualms impersonating noncombatants. In 1956 they used ambulances to transport soldiers and kidnap people

The Red Army, it turns out, was ever thus, but because they were allies against the Nazis, the knowledge about their way of war was suppressed.

Until Churchill sponsored the white book. Stalin's response was so swift that the movie battle of Berlin had to be hastily rewritten to paint the western allies in cahoots with the Nazis from the start to try and discredit the Katyn massacre among other things.

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