Apparently, new understandings of how to interpret the way the Soviet Union acted in the world from the perspective of mostly those acted upon is considered "rewriting history". Well, all I can say to that, is if the history that is written down is dead wrong, then maybe it needs to be rewritten!
I grew up knowing that the Soviet Union was a major aggressor during WW2 and beyond. Having a Dad who was deported to Siberia by the Soviets in a railway cattle car, during winter, when he was a child, along with his whole family, tends to cement a certain finality on this perspective. Moreso, even, when you know you may have known your Grandmother and a number of your Uncles and Aunts, if they had not starved to death in Kazakhstan, courtesy of the the same Soviets. Trying to tell one such as I that the Soviets were the West's allies tends to elicit a certain incredulity, at first, that a person should be so gullible. Unfortunately for me, the extent and the sheer number of gullible individuals seems to be an extraordinary number, that quite honestly has taken me by surprise.
So I read such an article as this with barely repressed, outraged anger. If it was on paper, I would tear it into little pieces.
Related Link: This rewriting of history is spreading Europe's poison ~ Guardian
Thanks to Psycho Milt for pointing out this abominable article to me. Putting on my new makeup helped elevate my mood enough so that I could write something more other than just wanting to rip the writer's head off.
I grew up knowing that the Soviet Union was a major aggressor during WW2 and beyond. Having a Dad who was deported to Siberia by the Soviets in a railway cattle car, during winter, when he was a child, along with his whole family, tends to cement a certain finality on this perspective. Moreso, even, when you know you may have known your Grandmother and a number of your Uncles and Aunts, if they had not starved to death in Kazakhstan, courtesy of the the same Soviets. Trying to tell one such as I that the Soviets were the West's allies tends to elicit a certain incredulity, at first, that a person should be so gullible. Unfortunately for me, the extent and the sheer number of gullible individuals seems to be an extraordinary number, that quite honestly has taken me by surprise.
So I read such an article as this with barely repressed, outraged anger. If it was on paper, I would tear it into little pieces.
Related Link: This rewriting of history is spreading Europe's poison ~ Guardian
Thanks to Psycho Milt for pointing out this abominable article to me. Putting on my new makeup helped elevate my mood enough so that I could write something more other than just wanting to rip the writer's head off.