tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post5542885082585963612..comments2023-12-31T13:47:05.758+00:00Comments on Fat Man on a Keyboard: Defending historyThe Plumphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09244528534476387323noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-48792386159225145462010-01-31T04:21:26.818+00:002010-01-31T04:21:26.818+00:00To anon's first comment - among the people tha...To anon's first comment - among the people that the Soviets deported from the Baltic states were thousands of Jews from each country. (Ironically, it saved the lives of many of these people, since it meant they were not in the Baltic states when the Nazis arrived in summer 1941 to kill all the Jews). There may have been some Jews who supported the Soviet takeover of these countries, but many others were seen as dangerous by the Soviets themselves.Rebeccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17626228106192215280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-22583800357316872622010-01-31T01:35:55.648+00:002010-01-31T01:35:55.648+00:00I wooD love to have been in one of your classes --...I wooD love to have been in one of your classes -- wooD have made your life a fuckkiNg misery (read joy when using werD misery there). OMG WTF OMG OMG OMG.Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08015473239835274353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-10206092426398744702010-01-25T19:45:31.020+00:002010-01-25T19:45:31.020+00:00Thanks Judith. I got my job there in 1996, so miss...Thanks Judith. I got my job there in 1996, so missed your bad behaviour mores the pity :-)The Plumphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244528534476387323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-68031163539555242212010-01-25T19:21:35.639+00:002010-01-25T19:21:35.639+00:00Good post, thought provoking.
Were you at Hull bet...Good post, thought provoking.<br />Were you at Hull between 1989 and 1992 when I was being a pain in the establishment's bum?Judithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01222238421273392904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-29528232858678142482010-01-23T12:36:41.126+00:002010-01-23T12:36:41.126+00:00And Will, you can stop moAniNG about commenters to...And Will, you can stop moAniNG about commenters too, you gRumPy oLd soD. :-)<br /><br />xxThe Plumphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244528534476387323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-28380649074088215842010-01-22T19:16:53.776+00:002010-01-22T19:16:53.776+00:00Quod erat demonstrandum.Quod erat demonstrandum.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-36971635626297308282010-01-22T01:59:34.056+00:002010-01-22T01:59:34.056+00:00"It is possible in the west to express views ..."It is possible in the west to express views on Stalin which would invite public opprobrium if expressed on Hitler. (Am I becoming morally equivalent?)"<br /><br />Doesn't even make sense.<br /><br />"There is no popular public debate about Stalin's terror."<br /><br />Are you a fucking imbecile or just a willfully blind cunT?<br /><br />The other shite posted by the anon cunt is beyond comprehension.<br /><br />Fucking idiot.Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08015473239835274353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-17298004089160454072010-01-21T22:29:11.181+00:002010-01-21T22:29:11.181+00:00Your points are, as always, well made. We seem to ...Your points are, as always, well made. We seem to be nowhere near the start of common intellectual honesty on this.<br /><br />Stalin enjoys extraordinary popularity in Russia. It is possible in the west to express views on Stalin which would invite public opprobrium if expressed on Hitler. (Am I becoming morally equivalent?)<br /><br />There is no popular public debate about Stalin's terror. Still less is there an understanding of the fear felt in the east for Putin's Russia. That fear fuels a fairly unpleasant far right.<br /><br />A little effort by historians and, dare I say, intellectuals (dread term)could be benefical throughout eastern Europe.<br /><br />I'm done. Time for Anon to sink into well deserved obscurity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-45376448108572256212010-01-21T15:29:15.065+00:002010-01-21T15:29:15.065+00:00And a challenging comment anon.
I think that ther...And a challenging comment anon.<br /><br />I think that there always is a danger of slipping into, if not outright apologism, a minimisation of one or the other. The author tries very hard to avoid it, as do I.<br /><br />As to what I would say to a Balt, well there are two lines I would take.<br /><br />1. It diminishes an understanding of your suffering not to examine the uniqueness of Stalinist terror instead of lumping it in with the Nazis.<br /><br />2. It grossly diminishes your suffering to use it as a device to launch the far right into power.The Plumphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244528534476387323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-5876565488910990252010-01-20T21:23:31.558+00:002010-01-20T21:23:31.558+00:00A challenging post: It is hard to argue with much ...A challenging post: It is hard to argue with much of what he says, but, what does he mean here? "It is widely repeated locally that the Soviets and their Jewish supporters committed genocide first, in 1940 (when the Baltic states were wrongfully incorporated into the USSR, less than a year after the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact".<br /><br />It would have done no harm to acknowledge that the Russians really did torture, murder and deport hundreds of thousands in that year.<br /><br />Did that justify doing things that even the Germans would not do? No, of course not. But can you expect such things to happen without consequence? No. And when the tide of war turned, it could only get worse.<br /><br />However you look at it, Jewish suffering has acquired a monopoly of attention in the west. That suffering was unique, but it is not right to gloss over any suffering.<br /><br />You rightly criticise 'equivalence' as sloppy and morally dubious. But what will you say to elderly Balts whose families were deported and lives disfigured? They too deserve an explanation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-24619474755071327422010-01-19T19:08:59.396+00:002010-01-19T19:08:59.396+00:00Excellent post, Peter.Excellent post, Peter.Graemehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15375230713040998061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-33731428906604952942010-01-19T16:21:58.120+00:002010-01-19T16:21:58.120+00:00AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FORMER STALINIST
Please share ...AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FORMER STALINIST<br /><br />Please share this link with those who might be interested.<br /><br />http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/mybook2.html<br /><br /><br /> P.S. The book is waiting for a reviewerLudwik Kowalskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01352305940031104480noreply@blogger.com