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Cold War. Enslavement. Poland. A Glimpse of Communist Occupation

08 Tuesday Feb 2022

Posted by commart in 21st Century Feudal, 21st Century Modern, Conflict - Culture - Language - Psychology, Eastern Europe, Europe, Extreme Brown vs Red-Green, Poland, Russia

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Cold War history, Communist History, eastern Europe, Poland, Soviet Army, WWII

Posted by Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation as part of their Witness Project, May 17, 2018.

Related Online

Mastny, Vojtech. “The Soviet Non-Invasion of Poland in 1980/81 and the End of the Cold War.” Washington, D.C., Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, September 1998.

Snyder, Timothy. “1989: Poland Was First!” The New York Review of Books, December 9, 2009.

Polish History Museum. “The Solidarity and the Fall of the Iron Curtain”.

Wikipedia. “Soviet invasion of Poland”.

Wikipedia. “Soviet repressions of Polish citizens (1939-1946)”.

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After Holocaust Remembrance Day, Remember – And NEVER Forget

28 Tuesday Jan 2020

Posted by commart in 21st Century Feudal, Anti-Semitism

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1945, Dachau, Holocaust, WWII

User “Timeline” on YouTube, May 8, 2015.

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“Between Hitler & Stalin” – A Timely Look Backward

10 Thursday Nov 2016

Posted by commart in 21st Century Feudal, Conflict - Culture - Language - Psychology, Political Psychology

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history, Hitler and Stalin, political psychology, psychology of dictatorship, Ukraine, WWII

Posted by Uke Tube, November 9, 2014.

Primary source: The Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Centre, Toronto, Ontario

Centre’s Summary and Annotation


Why now?

Putin.

And the other guy.  And BackChannels hopes the “other guy” proves an American and very, very cool about it.

Despite the conservative grousing about it, we need our United Nations.

Despite “everything being negotiable” — but is everything really negotiable? — Syria needs peace and a program for detoxifying from old Soviet Era poison (including its famous promotion of anti-Semitism); and Ukraine needs to remain sovereign across all of its designated lands.

And NATO and the United States of America represent a necessary and unified concept for the defense of democracy and freedom in the world — real freedom, not state-approved bunk fashioned out of some idiot’s totalitarian mixture of intimidation  and patronage.

As always with dictators, “The Emperor’s New Clothes” applies well to ethically, morally, and spiritually vacuous systems of power.

A fast glance online suggests that Stalin and Hitler hated one another and bought into their own heady non-aggression pact for practical (even if delusional) purposes.

Of course, in the BackChannels way of looking at some politics through the lens of related psychology (see “Malignant Narcissism” and other ideas in “Anthropolitical Psychology” on this blog), one may view Stalin and Hitler as two malignant narcissists explosively engaged with one another.  It was not a pretty site, that World War II, but the basis for affinity between the two dictators in shared anti-Semitism, anger with the greater world (it’s always against them, non?), the “paranoid delusional reflection of motivation“, and so on may have less visibly bonded the two just as today Putin, Assad, and Khamenei would seem to have wildly different state interests while yet sharing in the creation of greater chaos, destruction, and injustice in the world (for confirmation, just ask any Syrian refugee you happen to meet).

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Edup12 Presents An Interview With Hitler’s Secretary Traudl Junge

21 Tuesday Aug 2012

Posted by commart in Conflict - Culture - Language - Psychology, Europe

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Source: http://www.youtube.com/user/edup12

Posted here with thanks to my private correspondent in Lithuania and to YouTube’s “Edup12” for bringing this and more to light.

The study of “malignant narcissists” and how they do what they do has a complement in inquiry into the character of their enablers and their followers.  The above is longer than a “sound bite”, but hang with it: it has many things to say  about evil and its seductions.

The case for pathological narcissism and its characteristic defensiveness and obliviousness to others — and to reality, socially, sometimes physically — only becomes more clear as this filter borne of comparisons and observations becomes itself more resolving; then too, the charismatic effects of what may present as a happily grandiose mania may become more clear to those endangered as its targets or, far worse, enthralled by its recklessness and the first appearance of its excesses.

Traudl Junge was about 13 years old in 1933 and all of 25 when she found herself sharing the bunker in which Hitler committed suicide.

And here is a kicker — I didn’t like the cut of the film sent by way of Lithuania, and so went looking, briefly (in the way of the web), for another look at a part of André Heller’s Blind Spot documentary (source picked up from John Hooper’s reporting in The Guardian in 2002).

It’s different.

(Source: http://youtu.be/h5igDo-KJJo)

And yet much the same.

The second clip, early on, explains the voice-over appearing in the first (reaction shots Junge’s watching her own interview on a monitor).

And now — again, in the way of the World Wide Web –something really different:

And yet too much the same.

If we could not laugh, we would cry.

Other Reference

Hooper, John.  “Traudl Junge: She shared Hitler’s bunker, but claimed ignorance of the Holocaust.”  Obituary.  The Guardian, February 14, 2002.

Wikipedia.  “Traudl Junge”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traudl_Junge

Docudrama available via YouTube (1:15:48) — Der Untergang Part 1 (Downfall)

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Hillel the Elder

"That which is distasteful to thee do not do to another. That is the whole of Torah. The rest is commentary. Now go and study."

"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? If not now, when?"

"Whosoever destroys a soul, it is considered as if he destroyed an entire world. And whosoever that saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world."

Oriana Fallaci
"Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon...I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born."

Talmud 7:16 as Quoted by Rishon Rishon in 2004
Qohelet Raba, 7:16

אכזרי סוף שנעשה אכזרי במקום רחמן

Kol mi shena`asa rahaman bimqom akhzari Sof shena`asa akhzari bimqom rahaman

All who are made to be compassionate in the place of the cruel In the end are made to be cruel in the place of the compassionate.

More colloquially translated: "Those who are kind to the cruel, in the end will be cruel to the kind."

Online Source: http://www.rishon-rishon.com/archives/044412.php

Abraham Isaac Kook

"The purely righteous do not complain about evil, rather they add justice.They do not complain about heresy, rather they add faith.They do not complain about ignorance, rather they add wisdom." From the pages of Arpilei Tohar.

Heinrich Heine
"Where books are burned, in the end people will be burned." -- From Almansor: A Tragedy (1823).

Simon Wiesenthal
Remark Made in the Ballroom of the Imperial Hotel, Vienna, Austria on the occasion of His 90th Birthday: "The Nazis are no more, but we are still here, singing and dancing."

Maimonides
"Truth does not become more true if the whole world were to accept it; nor does it become less true if the whole world were to reject it."

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Milan Kundera
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Malala Yousafzai
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What I Have Said About the Jews

My people, not that I speak for them, I nonetheless describe as a "global ethnic commune with its heart in Jerusalem and soul in the Land of Israel."

We have never given up on God, nor have we ever given up on one another.

Many things we have given up, but no one misses, say, animal sacrifice, and as many things we have kept, so we have still to welcome our Sabbath on Friday at sunset and to rest all of Saturday until three stars appear in the sky.

Most of all, through 5,773 years, wherever life has taken us, through the greatest triumphs and the most awful tragedies, we have preserved our tribal identity and soul, and so shall we continue eternally.

Anti-Semitism / Anti-Zionism = Signal of Fascism

I may suggest that anti-Zionism / anti-Semitism are signal (a little bit) of fascist urges, and the Left -- I'm an old liberal: I know my heart -- has been vulnerable to manipulation by what appears to me as a "Red Brown Green Alliance" driven by a handful of powerful autocrats intent on sustaining a medieval worldview in service to their own glorification. (And there I will stop).
One hopes for knowledge to allay fear; one hopes for love to overmatch hate.

Too often, the security found in the parroting of a loyal lie outweighs the integrity to be earned in confronting and voicing an uncomfortable truth.

Those who make their followers believe absurdities may also make them commit atrocities.

Positively Orwellian: Comment Responding to Claim that the Arab Assault on Israel in 1948 Had Not Intended Annihilation

“Revisionism” is the most contemptible path that power takes to abet theft and hide shame by attempting to alter public perception of past events.

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This is not to suggest that partisan presses don't exist or that propaganda doesn't exist in the west, but any reader possessed of critical thinking ability and genuine independence -- not bought, not programmed -- is certainly free to evaluate the works of earnest reporters and scholars.

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