tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25230932.post4738845789369117904..comments2023-10-06T10:10:06.982-04:00Comments on La Russophobe: Essel on Russian "History"La Russophobehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05672264388217953086noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25230932.post-5956043799158622382007-05-22T11:44:00.000-04:002007-05-22T11:44:00.000-04:00My atrophied organ of historical shame thanks you ...My atrophied organ of historical shame thanks you for posting this! The thing is, of course, that this insane condensation of twisted "Russian 'thought'regarding the Baltics" is actually the norm. A sample statistic -- surveys show that only ca. 14% of the ethnic Russians in Latvia acknowledge that Latvia was occupied (about half as many as among the Russians in Russia, percentage-wise).Pēteris Cedriņšhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14427626605836088551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25230932.post-91421117426831524312007-05-20T21:11:00.000-04:002007-05-20T21:11:00.000-04:00"This is a country which has not come to historiog...<I>"This is a country which has not come to historiographical terms with Tsarism, with its revolution of 1917, with its Civil War and the manufactured famines of collectivisation, with its archipelago of injustice, and with its long-delayed ‘bourgeois revolution’ following the collapse of the Soviet Union. With no serious examination of its history, it can only be expected – in fact it can be guaranteed – that the absence of such understanding will lead to Russia selecting its course more or less at random since it does not know at any one time where it is coming from."</I><BR/><BR/>As George Santayana observed..."Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Russia is mired forever in ignorance and bad outcomes until it analyses its past and admits to its hideous histroy, the difference between the children of Hitler and the children of Stalin. Germany moved on.<BR/><BR/>Eventually the futility of living lies, their pathological demographics, and the forces of the modern world will marginalize Russia into a smaller, more nasty but more ignorable Banana Republic. Oil prices, bouying Putin's thuggery, will collapse. <BR/><BR/>I am long past feelimg sorry for the long suffering Russians. We all make choices. More important, we should value our children enough to try to create and maintain a civil society for them. It's all about self-responsibilty.<BR/><BR/>Slobs like Russian Patriot, a degenerate and ignorant fascist, are Russia's future if they don't change it.<BR/><BR/><BR/>'Pennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08179466916477423331noreply@blogger.com