https://www.villagevoice.com/in-search-of-a-soviet-holocaust/

“They’re always looking to come up with a number bigger than six million,” observed Eli Rosenbaum, general counsel for the World Jewish Congress. “It makes the reader think: ‘My god, it’s worse than the Holocaust.’ ”

Your husband’s courage and dedication to liberty will serve as a continuing source of inspiration to all those striving for freedom and self-determination. — Letter from President Reagan to the widow of Yaroslav Stetsko, ranking OUN terrorist, murderer, and Nazi collabora­tor, read by retired general John Singlaub at a conference of the World Anti-Com­munist League, September 7, 1986

Just as the Nazis used the OUN for their own ends, so has Reagan exploited the famine, from his purple-prosed com­memoration of “this callous act” to his backing of the Mace commission. Faced with failing fascist allies around the world, from Nicaragua to South Africa, the U.S. war lobby needs to boost anti­-Communism as never before. Public en­thusiasm to fight for the contras will not come easy. But if people could be con­vinced that Communism is worse than fascism; that Stalin was an insane mon­ster, even worse than Hitler; that the seven million died in more unspeakable agony than the six million …. Well, we just might be set up for the next Gulf of Tonkin. One cannot appease an Evil Em­pire, after all.

Zelensky won his office on a peace platform with most support coming from the ethnic Russians of eastern Ukraine. The western Ukrainians voted against him. He then betrayed the east by allowing AZOV to carry on a campaign of ethnic cleansing of the Donbass.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Ukrainian_presidential_election#/media/File:2019_Ukrainian_presidential_election,_round_2.svg

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/7138

Seventy-six percent of those who live in western Ukraine have a positive opinion towards Bandera, the poll indicates. (2014)

https://web.archive.org/save/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Ffilm%2F2009%2Fnov%2F13%2Fgareth-jones-story-retold-documentary

Gareth Jones’s accounts of what was happening in Soviet Ukraine in 1932-33 were different from other western accounts. Not only did he reveal the true extent of starvation, he reported on the Stalin regime’s failure to deliver aid while exporting grain to the west. The tragedy is now known as the Holodomar and regarded by Ukrainians as genocide.

Jones was the only journalist who risked his name and reputation to expose the Holodomor to the world.

For example, he was once on a 16-seat aircraft with the new German chancellor, Adolph Hitler, and Joseph Goebbels, on their way to a rally in Frankfurt.

This was about a month before the “Terror Famine” propaganda story was published in Hearst-owned newspapers.

He managed to get an interview with a local castle owner: William Randolph Hearst who owned St Donat’s Castle near Cardiff. The newspaper magnate was obviously taken by Jones’s accounts of what had happened in Ukraine and invited the reporter to the US.

Jones dutifully arrived at Hearst’s private station – as Chico Marx was leaving the estate – and wrote three articles for Hearst and used, for the first time, the phrase “manmade famine”.

A few bits about Hearst: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Randolph_Hearst

He was at once a militant nationalist, a staunch anti-communist after the Russian Revolution, and deeply suspicious of the League of Nations and of the British, French, Japanese, and Russians.[2] Following Hitler’s rise to power, Hearst became a supporter of the Nazi Party, ordering his journalists to publish favourable coverage of Nazi Germany, and allowing leading Nazis to publish articles in his newspapers.[3]

With “AMERICA FIRST” emblazoned on his newspaper masthead, Hearst celebrated the “great achievement” of the new Nazi regime in Germany—a lesson to all “liberty-loving people”—the defeat of communism. In 1934, after checking with Jewish leaders to ensure a visit would be to their benefit,[57] Hearst visited Berlin to interview Adolf Hitler. When Hitler asked why he was so misunderstood by the American press, Hearst retorted: “Because Americans believe in democracy, and are averse to dictatorship.”[58] William Randolph Hearst instructed his reporters in Germany to give positive coverage of the Nazis, and fired journalists who refused to write stories favourable of German fascism.[3] Hearst’s papers ran columns without rebuttal by Nazi leader Hermann Göring, Alfred Rosenberg,[3] and Hitler himself, as well as Mussolini and other dictators in Europe and Latin America.[59] During that same year 1934, Japan / U.S. relations were unstable. In an attempt to remedy this, Prince Tokugawa Iesato travelled throughout the United States on a goodwill visit. During his visit, Prince Iesato and his delegation met with William Randolph Hearst with the hope of improving mutual understanding between the two nations.

And don’t forget about the CIA supported Banderite that created a publishing house in NYC to spread more propaganda.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykola_Lebed

Thanks to his collaboration with the CIA and their active shielding of him, Lebed was never tried for the war crimes he and his men had committed against Poles and Jews during WWII.

https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2018/sep/18/mykola-lebed-and-the-cia/

The CIA facilitated Lebed’s move to the US, getting asylum for him and his family in 1949 and helping him obtain citizenship in 1957. As head of a CIA operation called Project AERODYNAMIC, Lebed spent the next few decades in control of a Agency-funded non-profit publishing company, the Prolog Research and Publishing Association.

Prolog Research and Publishing went on to promote lots of anti-Soviet propaganda, including popularizing the ‘terror famine’ rhetoric. Many of the biased sources discussed in the Village Voice article can trace their claims back to Lebed’s publishing.

Seventy-six percent of those who live in western Ukraine have a positive opinion towards Bandera, the poll indicates.

The situation in the southern and eastern regions, except Donbass, is: 15% and 8% are pro-Bandera, and 69%-70% are negative, with, 14% and 18% respectively undecided.

In Donbass, 79% of those polled have a negative attitude to Bandera, 3% positive and 2% are undecided.

Poll from 2014. https://www.kyivpost.com/post/7138

Liberalism is pro-capitalism, so “liberals” and “conservatives” are both just different flavors of the same liberalism in the US.

You are in the meme.

There isn’t any policy that I’m aware of, I usually post to lemmy when I want to spread a meme more beyond hexbear (since a lot of Lemmyverse blocks or hides us). There was a brief period of uncertainty about Luigi initially, but it has turned out to be quite effective “propaganda of the deed”, like a modern John Brown in certain respects.

https://the-handmaids-tale.fandom.com/wiki/Eden_Blaine

How’d genocidal fascists end up in my anti-tankie meme?!?! It’s so completely irrelevant that I must terminate all thought of this kind immediately.

During the Syrian civil war, a Chinese hostage was murdered by the Islamic State, which claimed its desire to fight against China over Xinjiang.[319] These militants are also very active in Syria, mostly Idlib, where it formed to be one of the most radical fighting groups in the conflict, which prompted China to take cautious reactions.[320][321]

A number of Uyghur militants have been recruited by ISIS[322][323] and have had a presence in Southeast Asia, with some joining Mujahidin Indonesia Timor.[324]

Some nice context for the confused here.

we are in the right in both instances

playing both sides isn’t being right tho

effective anti-terrorism campaigns of vocational training, deradicalization, and investment in Infrastructure alongside special status for the culture under the law

Passive Voicing a bombing campaign that dropped the equivalent explosive power of multiple nuclear bombs on a small strip of land are we?

Otherwise what would be the point if everyone thinks it is useless?

Capitalism trying to convince people it is still relevant and viable.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gdp-is-the-wrong-tool-for-measuring-what-matters/

These examples illustrate the disjuncture between GDP and societal well-being and the many ways that GDP fails to be a good measure of economic performance. The growth in GDP before 2008 was not sustainable, and it was not sustained. The increase in bank profits that seemed to fuel GDP in the years before the crisis was not only at the expense of the well-being of the many people whom the financial sector exploited but also at the expense of GDP in later years. The increase in inequality was by any measure hurting our society, but GDP was celebrating the banks’ successes. If there ever was an event that drove home the need for new ways of measuring economic performance and societal progress, the 2008 crisis was it.

Quite the opposite in fact, they were directly inspired by previous settler-colonialism and successful genocide.

Writing in “Mein Kampf” in the 1920s, Hitler praised the way the “Aryan” America conquered “its own continent” by clearing the “soil” of “natives” to make room for more “racially pure” settlers and lay the foundation for its economic self-sufficiency and growing global power. Indeed, the concept of Lebensraum was coined and popularized by Friedrich Razel, who said his theory of colonization and racial replacement drew inspiration from the American historian Frederick Jackson Turner’s “frontier thesis” and its identification of “colonization of the Great West” as central to American history and identity.

Picked up this phrase from a random comment a few years ago:

philosophically I’m an anarchist, so pragmatically I’m a communist and currently I’m a socialist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stateless_society

In stateless societies, there is little concentration of authority. Most positions of authority that do exist are very limited in power, and they are generally not permanent positions, and social bodies that resolve disputes through predefined rules tend to be small.

Over the course of history most stateless peoples have become integrated into external state-based societies.

Some political philosophies, particularly anarchism, regard the state as an unwelcome institution and stateless societies as the ideal, while Marxism considers that in a post-capitalist society, the state would become unnecessary and would wither away.

This is the goal. As the means of production are socialized (owned by everyone), the concentrations of wealth, influence, power and authority would be eroded down. It is continually iterative process with democratic and participatory inputs.

https://lemmy.ml/post/3795675

also from the wiki link:

Von Mildenstein’s articles explored several questions about the future of Palestine and the viability of Zionism in what he described as the “turbulent Orient”.

Contrary to the derogatory stereotypes prevalent in Nazi propaganda, von Mildenstein depicted the Jewish settlers in Palestine as optimistic and industrious, a direct contradiction to the Nazi portrayal of Jews.

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionist_antisemitism:

Jewish scholar Ze’ev Jabotinsky, who developed Revisionist Zionism in the 20th century, wrote:

Our starting point is to take the typical Yid of today and to imagine his diametrical opposite … because the Yid is ugly, sickly, and lacks decorum, we shall endow the ideal image of the Hebrew with masculine beauty. The Yid is trodden upon and easily frightened and, therefore, the Hebrew ought to be proud and independent. The Yid is despised by all and, therefore, the Hebrew ought to charm all. The Yid has accepted submission and, therefore, the Hebrew ought to learn how to command. The Yid wants to conceal his identity from strangers and, therefore, the Hebrew should look the world straight in the eye and declare: “I am a Hebrew!”

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