Russia is working hard to convince everybody that life has stabilized in the Crimea and that everything is going great. This week, a biker show called “The Return” took place in the Crimea. Bikers congregated on the peninsula from many regions of Russia. Russian TV channels gleefully transmitted footage from the show as proof that Crimeans are having tons of fun:
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I fail to see how any self-respecting Russian or Ukrainian could ever identify with any of the symbolism or tenets of Nazism. The Nazis considered the slavic people to be sub-human and fully-intended to exterminate them, had they won the European war. As it was, Russia and Ukraine lost over 20 million people fighting and ejecting these bastards out of their lands. If I were Russian or Ukrainian, I would find Nazi symbology to be highly offensive.
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I agree completely but the Russian neo-Nazis have convinced themselves that Hitler only considered Slavs sub-human because he didn’t know them very well. Had he gotten to know them, they say, Hitler would realize that Slavs were the true Aryans.
I actually saw this reasoning at a Russian neo-Nazi website. It sounds outlandishly stupid, but what do you expect from neo-Nazis?
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The Russian neo-Nazis you refer to obviously have not read “Mein Kampf” or Hitler’s second book (yes, he wrote a second book in 1928). Hitler makes clear his contempt for the Slavic peoples in both books.
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BTW, I have read “Mein Kampf” and am, therefor, very well-aware of Hitler’s personal beliefs as will as that of the Nazi party.
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In case you missed:
Russia as a narcissistic personality disorder, Ukraine as a narcissistic injury, part 1
http://morreth.blogspot.co.il/2014/08/russia-as-narcissistic-personality.html
Part 2 hasn’t been translated from Russian (yet?)
Россия как нарциссическое расстройство личности, Украина как нарциссическая травма. Часть 2
http://morreth.livejournal.com/2473922.html
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Brilliant analysis, brilliant. This is such a tragedy, absolutely brilliant people but such a stunted existence, for centuries and centuries. It’s like a curse. I can’t find analogies to this phenomenon anywhere. Nobody oppresses them, nobody is taking anything away. But somehow, all of their really off-the-charts brilliance leads absolutely nowhere. I mean, a person who can write this kind of analysis and so casually should be a mega-best selling world star. But somehow, somehow it never happens.
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She is a writer.
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Yes, she writes some sort of fantasy swill, right? It’s like water devoured by desert.
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There are parts 3-5 of “Россия как нарциссическое расстройство личности, Украина как нарциссическая травма.” now
http://morreth.livejournal.com/2476432.html
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She posted links to other blogger’s analysis, which I am reading now
http://morreth.livejournal.com/2475865.html
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// Yes, she writes some sort of fantasy swill, right? It’s like water devoured by desert.
Do you think one can’t write fantasy well and use the genre to express something deep? Or that people don’t read fantasy, thus investing in it is a mistake?
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A real writer doesn’t worry about the readers and never thinks of what she does as “investing.” I’m sure a real writer can dabble in fantasy. (The Spanish writer Rosa Montero did and I even published an article about that.) But I am yet to see a single example where the dedication to the fantasy genre is anything but a simple lack of writerly skill.
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Btw, I liked the other blogger. Especially the third link was interesting.
I mean, the links here
http://morreth.livejournal.com/2475865.html
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Ah, so you are a Ukrainian-speaker, too. 🙂 And then people will tell me how Donbass doesn’t understand Ukrainian.
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// Ah, so you are a Ukrainian-speaker, too. 🙂 And then people will tell me how Donbass doesn’t understand Ukrainian.
I had Ukrainian language and lit lessons at school, but could never speak the language.
Once I went to the market with my grandmother and tried to speak in Ukrainian as an experiment, but discovered I couldn’t say two sentences.
Those posts were linked by morreth and I half guessed (since languages are similar and I probably remembered something from school) and half used Google Translate.
Unlike your family, my family had zero Ukrainians and zero Ukrainian nationalism. My grandmother was a communist. In general, I was raised to love and see as my own Russian culture: language, lit, don’t know what else. Never felt myself Ukrainian in any way.
After we left in the late 90ies, schools changed to Ukrainian in our town, so I guess they know Ukrainian now.
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“In general, I was raised to love and see as my own Russian culture: language, lit, don’t know what else. Never felt myself Ukrainian in any way.”
– Weren’t we all. 😦 This is one of our greatest tragedies. We were so deeply conditioned to self-hate and live as wannabe Russians that now this will be very, very hard to eradicate. I will never forget how deeply ashamed and second-class I felt at the age of 6 when I was told that nobody was Russian in our family. Somehow, I knew this was not a good thing. At six!!!
Freaks, criminals, animals.
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