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Originally posted by Serge_Oprano@Oct 4 2003, 12:14 AM
REMEMBERING autrocities is GOOD,
seeping them under the rug is BAD
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how are attrocities being forgotten?
even schools as pathetic as those in the American public education system teach about world history, wars, world war 1 and 2 and how many people died etc.
i did not know Nazis were being forgotten to the point that there was a need to remind families at half time of a high school football game about 10,000,000 plus executions and victems of attrocities. i am sure many there would have preferred the antics of the school mascot and marching band, which is probably more appropriate than your argument for a statement about mass executions and more 60-70 million lost lives.
I think your Soviet schooling is taking over. although we all appreciated the fact that the Soviet Union had a vast arsenal of tanks and nuclear missiles - as Americans just never felt that showing off endless columns of weaponry while joining huge mobs of people drunk on vodka in belting out patriotic songs to the Red Army Choir about how Moscow is the capital of the world and the West will be destroyed forever, was an appropriate way to celebrate Librarians Day or any other innane event.
but opinions do/did vary.