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ArishMell · 70-79, M
This on on the 80th Anniversary of the Red Army discovering Auschwitz - Birkenau, the largest of the extermination-camps that formed part of Hitler's "final solution" against the Jews as well as homosexuals, Roma, Russian PoWs and more or less anyone else he despised....
So, why?
Widespread ignorance of what the Nazis actually did, ancient prejudices against anyone "different", even a peculiar, growing idea particularly among younger people even in some European countries that strong, undemocratic governments are somehow better than liberal ones.
Oh - and I use democratic and liberal in their true meanings, not the warped ones of party-political slogans..
We must never forget, and this is why events like todays, in the camp now conserved as a museum and memorial to the atrocity, are so important..
Nor must we forget the victims of Stalin's rule in Russia (est. 10 Million people by famine and increasingly irrational puges), Mao's in China (est. >30M, mainly by famine but some in purges like the "Cultural Revolution"), Pol Pot's in Cambodia (about 2M, but a sizeable proportion of the population, by wilful murder, wilful destruction of medical facilities and sheer neglect).....
So, why?
Widespread ignorance of what the Nazis actually did, ancient prejudices against anyone "different", even a peculiar, growing idea particularly among younger people even in some European countries that strong, undemocratic governments are somehow better than liberal ones.
Oh - and I use democratic and liberal in their true meanings, not the warped ones of party-political slogans..
We must never forget, and this is why events like todays, in the camp now conserved as a museum and memorial to the atrocity, are so important..
Nor must we forget the victims of Stalin's rule in Russia (est. 10 Million people by famine and increasingly irrational puges), Mao's in China (est. >30M, mainly by famine but some in purges like the "Cultural Revolution"), Pol Pot's in Cambodia (about 2M, but a sizeable proportion of the population, by wilful murder, wilful destruction of medical facilities and sheer neglect).....
