Since people wanted stories on the USSR, I can offer a documentary:
I warn you that this is very very disturbing and the images are graphic and tragic.
The people of Spain still can’t get over the 500,000 people who died in the Civil War. In the same decade, Ukraine – whose population is the same as Spain’s – had 10,000,000 people slaughtered. Spaniards are talking about their war, studying it, publishing novels and academic studies about it, trying to process the trauma.
Ukrainians dared to mention the genocide timidly and a couple of times which angered the country who perpetrated the genocide against them. After years of ruthlessly and cruelly mocking the genocide in Ukraine (the 10 million of dead Ukrainians were the butt of endless jokes and stand-up comedy routines in Russia since Putin came to power), the Russians outlawed any discussion of the genocide by scholars. Even that wasn’t enough, so Russia decided to start a new genocide of Ukrainians to distract everybody’s attention from the one in the 1930s.
Back in 1930s, happy, chirpy, fat Western Lefties traveled to the USSR in droves, publishing gushing accounts of how ecstatically happy everybody there was. Today, happy, chirpy, fat Western Lefties don’t even go to the trouble of traveling. They know for a fact that there is a civil war in Ukraine and that Putin is a good guy because. . . well, he’s just got to be a good guy, right? Any other possibility would be too hard to process.
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Great video but I still have not figured out who besides Stephen Cohen is a supposed leftist who likes Putin.
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Given that I already answered this question at least three times and wasn’t heard, I’m not wildly optimistic about the success of the fourth attempt. But OK, here it is:
Everybody who has ever used the phrase “civil war in Ukraine” or “pro-Russian separatists.” Open any Liberal publication in print and online, and you will see these expressions populating every article on Ukraine. Then, see the names of the authors. Those will be “supposed leftists who like Putin.”
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