← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · edward gibbon
Thread ID: 8351 | Posts: 3 | Started: 2003-07-22
2003-07-22 16:29 | User Profile
Lying and deceit have been so firmly entrenched in the American media that to challenge these mendacious lies is a full-time job. Now Schindler's List has entered American memory as an honest accurate account of wartime Europe in World War II. From my book- [color=blue]War, Money and American Memory: Myths of Virtue, Valor and Patriotism[/color]: > Many Americans rightly have questioned as to how important the interpretation by the New York Times is to this day.ÃÂ The influence of the New York Times could be seen in the Philadelphia Inquirer which had as its editor a former New York Times reporter, a Mr. Eugene Roberts, who guided the Inquirer to the winning of many Pulitzer Prizes.ÃÂ A reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer*, a Mr. David Preston, reviewed a book A Season for Healing: Reflections on the Holocaust***.ÃÂ Inside the review Mr. Preston decried the World Congress of Free Ukrainians for flooding the nation's newsrooms with "slick folders about a 'Forgotten Holocaust'", Stalin's forced famine of the years of 1932 through 1933 in which millions of Ukrainians died.ÃÂ Mr. Preston accused the Ukrainians of misappropriating the word "Holocaust" - while citing Webster's Dictionary as the authority for limiting the usage of the word solely to the systematic destruction of Jews before and during World War II.ÃÂ Ukrainians were accused by the American reporter of choosing provocation over education.ÃÂ The folders detailed the brutal murder of the Ukrainians by the Soviet Commissars and their minions.ÃÂ In no way could the folders be described as "slick", but what they did do was document a butchery so vast and complete the American press has a deep primal need to discredit and belittle any who believe the crimes which the American press did not cover continue to have significance.
Perhaps, a sign that memory may be changing about the famine in the Ukraine was a review of a movie, ***Famine-33***, in December 1993 on the same day an article about ***Schindler's List ***appeared in the New York* Times*.ÃÂ The film shot in Ukraine brought the surprising admission by the film reviewer of the New York *Times* that the communist created famine killed 7 million people, a number greater than the once sacrosanct figure of 6 million which was once reserved exclusively for Jews and was to represent the ultimate degradation of man in the twentieth century.ÃÂ Reasons given for the mass starvation were seizure of food, principally grains to be sold abroad, to pay for the cost of industrialization.ÃÂ A more subtle insidious aim of this brutal policy was forcing independent farmers to work in collectives.ÃÂ Technically, the movie was thought quite crude with filming in grimy black and white and dialogue described as nothing more than spoken captions.**
If anybody said words slightly as denigrating about Jewry, they would be pursued constantly in the American media.
2003-07-22 16:44 | User Profile
I've never heard of the movie, edward, and I am not in the least surprised. After all, Ukrainians, Russians, Poles, Balts, are not the Chosen. The only people of whose "suffering" during the Soviet Era you will hear will be the embattled Jews. Perhaps the reason why the Chosen would rather keep this real Holocaust under wraps is because it was perpetrated by Lazar Kagan(ovich), a Jew, and probably the world's most prolific mass murderer. This topic is personally of great interest to me, since my grandfather, a hlaf-Ukrainian half-Lituanian noble from Galicia, and my grandmother, a hlaf-Ukrainian half volksdeutsche from the Volhyn both suffered through this horrible famine. Everyone interested in the historical details please see [url=http://forum.originaldissent.com/index.php?showtopic=9544]this thread[/url]
2003-07-23 02:41 | User Profile
The crimes against humanity that happened in the Soviet Union could provide material for many films. Just don't wait to see them anytime soon.