i remain perpetually fascinated at the incredible levels of americentrism I see exhibited on here sometimes, wherein every event is examined primarily in relation to the US, and more broadly, the West. hard to understand tbh, being an immigrant; what about, u know, our memories?
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RT @CurrentCitizen
Holodomor was fake. The Civil War massacres and subsequent oppression of the Lenin-Trotsky regime were real though. Holodomor was a c…
https://twitter.com/CurrentCitizen/status/1409339070111748096
I wonder how these people account for the very many people for whom these events are in living memory; my grandparents, for example, quite literally lived through this. they told me many stories of living off potato skins and bread crusts, their friends that didn't make it
why invoke the West to explain the administrative failings of the USSR? do you really need to be involved so bad? can't understand historical events w/o a personal connection? it's such an odd form of reverse West saviorism... we're perfectly capable of fucking up on our own, ty
do they just not care about truth, valuing advancing their personal political narrative more? that I can understand, but if so it's... disappointing. I expect more interesting positions; this shit is, frankly, incredibly tedious. why advance such trivially disprovable theories?