tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post16074118637511676..comments2024-03-29T09:09:46.823+02:00Comments on A Political Refugee From The Global Village : The Life and Death in a Small Town in Ukraine Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-58088078227401357702021-07-23T09:28:46.699+03:002021-07-23T09:28:46.699+03:00The town was mostly Jewish, but is now Ukrainian.
...The town was mostly Jewish, but is now Ukrainian.<br /><br />I do not believe in "blood guilt" - so the Ukrainians who live there now are not guilty of any crime. As for people who worked for the German National Socialists during the war - these included a few Jews, hence the Jewish insult "Capo" (used on leftist Jews from the accursed universities, with their "Free Palestine" slogan) - which is short for "Camp Police" (now it just means "traitor" - or "Jewish person who works to achieve another six million murdered Jews") the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem (the "Free Palestine" person of the time) being a supporter of the Holocaust - indeed he visited the camps (to gloat), which Mr Hitler never did, and Mr Himmler only did once (and was sick).<br /><br />It is a Ukrainian town now - a town of ordinary people, not mad Cossacks from the 17th century (whitewashed in the Yul Brynner film "Taras Bulba" I remember) or anything like that.Paul Markshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18376632035812989444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-9595910193445078422018-02-27T16:35:35.066+02:002018-02-27T16:35:35.066+02:00CORRECTED.
I agree that making Hungary from 1867-...CORRECTED.<br /><br />I agree that making Hungary from 1867-1918 an equal partner was a disaster. Or at least they should have given the Czechs equal status with the Hungarians. But what was the alternative to the Habsburg Empire?<br /><br />Without the Habsburgs you had ethnic states like Poland and Romania where large numbers of citizens were not Polish or Romanian and therefore were marginalised and discriminated against. The Germans for example, who were also the second biggest ethnic group in Czechoslovakia, bigger than the Slovaks. <br /><br />This led to war, which was inevitable once the Hapsburg empire fell apart. Wilson, the George W. Bush of his day, is a lot to blame but not the sole culprit.<br /><br />Without the Hapsburgs a united Greater Germany was inevitable. Germany or Russia had to dominate Eastern Europe since Austria Hungary did not exist and the Turks had been thrust back to Eastern Thrace and Constantinople.<br /><br />If the choice is between democratic federal Austria Hungary in Eastern Europe and the E.U. the FORMER wins hands down. A democratic federal Ottoman Empire covering Greece, Bulgaria and the Middle East would have advantages too.Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-21593701432493583532018-02-27T16:33:24.525+02:002018-02-27T16:33:24.525+02:00Sorry of course I did! Thank you for spotting that...Sorry of course I did! Thank you for spotting that absurd error.Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-45594972625266827582018-02-27T16:24:03.251+02:002018-02-27T16:24:03.251+02:00@ Paul
"If the choice is between democratic ...@ Paul<br /><br />"If the choice is between democratic federal Austria Hungary in Eastern Europe and the E.U. the latter wins hands down."<br /><br />Didn't you mean to write, the former wins hands down?David in Ukrainenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-67510788246830842482018-02-27T15:46:44.767+02:002018-02-27T15:46:44.767+02:00Romanians were actually represented post 1848/9. Romanians were actually represented post 1848/9. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-78935207006710781902018-02-26T09:14:28.723+02:002018-02-26T09:14:28.723+02:00Yeah, the Habsburg Empire would have worked as an ...Yeah, the Habsburg Empire would have worked as an EU only for the privileged nations or states that ruled it (Austria alone and later together with Hungary). However, for the Romanians that represented the vast majority of the population of Transylvania, it was a political, social and religious nightmare, as by the two Leopold's Deeds, the Romanians were not recognized as an official nation in Transylvania, being therefore deprived of all sort of social and political rights. Likewise, our secular Church was not officially recognized either.<br /><br />I really don’t understand how people complaining about the current state of the world’ affairs (i.e. globalization, EU’s desire of total integration within its structure at the expense of the members’ sovereignty) could dream of the Habsburg Empire. Thanks to Woodrow Wilson’ auto determination principle, many nations that lived under the umbrella of the Habsburg Empire were able to either create their own state or reunite with their mother country. In my view, only the "national" states could now stand against the "New World Order" and everything that comes with it.<br /><br />Alex Anghel<br /><br /><br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-32466153818249677412018-02-25T18:23:53.169+02:002018-02-25T18:23:53.169+02:00'An EU that worked' - a fitting descriptio...'An EU that worked' - a fitting description of the Hapsburg empire. And correct to blame Woodrow Wilson for destroying it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-46823063878805732842018-02-25T17:56:04.611+02:002018-02-25T17:56:04.611+02:00The words with which I began this article about na...The words with which I began this article about national loyalties being all important may be a mistake. To some extent the fighting may have been a peasant war.Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-87205967038421042332018-02-25T17:46:04.313+02:002018-02-25T17:46:04.313+02:00So there's this (by now few hundred years old)...So there's this (by now few hundred years old) fight between the old religion (Judeo - Christianity) and the new ones (Nationalism, Marxism with all their sub sects and neo sects). <br /><br />People committed an unbelievable amount of killing in the name of Christianity itself, in spite of its having a clear anti-violent and inclusive message, and a clear violence containing goal. <br /><br />Now I think things would have looked a lot worse without Christianity (something like a perpetual late Roman emperors or Game of Thrones) but even Christianity failed to contain the violent side of the human nature. <br /><br />What should we then expect them from these new religions of Nationalism and Marxism that have as a stated purpose to create closed in groups and exclude people, and also provide stories to help unleash violence. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-8975981538981980812018-02-25T17:26:45.985+02:002018-02-25T17:26:45.985+02:00Living outside Romania I was surprised to find tha...Living outside Romania I was surprised to find that Romania is considered an active participant in the WW2 genocide. <br /><br />This was a surprise to me because, as many other Romanians, I had heard that while there were labor camps for Jews in Romania, they were not extermination camps; that while Jews were stripped of rights they were not killed, well except in the Iasi pogrom, and during the Legionaire's rebellion; that Romania allowed Jews from Transylvania to embark on ships to Palestine etc.<br /><br />I did not know about the atrocities committed by the Romanian army in Moldova until I read this report cover to cover: http://www.yadvashem.org/docs/international-commission-on-romania-holocaust.html<br /><br />I think all Romanians should read this report to bring clarity to what Romania did and did not so during WW2. The repoirt was initially commissioned by Iliescu btw. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-52561388673929157502018-02-25T14:40:37.714+02:002018-02-25T14:40:37.714+02:00That's a very insightful article on the atroci...That's a very insightful article on the atrocities that took place in Galicia, a region that Mihai Antonescu (Ion Antonescu's right hand during WW2) would have wanted in part for Romania (the Pocutia sub-region), had Germany won the war. <br /><br />The author says that the Romanian peasants' revolt of 1907 was aimed at the Jews. That is unfortunately very true and while no argument can be brought in favor of murdering any population, be it indigenous or not, it must be said from the outset that the said revolt had no racial basis, as the whole Romanian antisemitism relied solely on economic and social grounds. <br /><br />For instance, in Moldavia there was a huge Jewish population that illegally immigrated from Russia in the XIXth century (due to the oppressive politics conducted by the Tsar's regime) and further occupied the speculative area of the local economy, owning various businesses in the agricultural field (i.e. landlords, lessors, etc). Therefore, bearing in mind that the vast majority of the Romanian indigenous population was very poor, most of the debts were contracted in local taverns ran by Jews, hence the subsequent revolt that erupted in 1907 and further spread across the country.<br /><br />Alex Anghel<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-81598056730792727702018-02-25T11:48:34.951+02:002018-02-25T11:48:34.951+02:00War, pillage murder rape is an inescapable ongoing...War, pillage murder rape is an inescapable ongoing condition of the human race.... the company of the preachers may be great but,inevitably, preaching proves futile against prejudice, envy, covetness, greed prejudice and hate win out as we all should have realised by now... the appalling,harrowing story the book tells and your synopsis of it tells a recurring familiar story throughout history It may inform even remind people of the ongoing worst humanity is capably of but alas, it won't materially change a bloody thing!<br />Charles FitzGerald Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-87247329672286421032018-02-25T11:29:25.441+02:002018-02-25T11:29:25.441+02:00I have no doubt that a similar thing could happen ...I have no doubt that a similar thing could happen in the UK. Andrew WithersAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-33873698155682766492018-02-25T07:55:47.483+02:002018-02-25T07:55:47.483+02:00Human history in a nutshell. KarlHuman history in a nutshell. KarlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-15240905949552261092018-02-25T07:38:31.126+02:002018-02-25T07:38:31.126+02:00I should like to know more. The story if the Ukrai...I should like to know more. The story if the Ukrainian resistance after 1945 is interesting. Historians who write about it have current political arguments in view. Ukrainian nationalist historians do and so do Western historians for whom all nationalism is malign except when it is directed at colonial rule in Africa or Asia.Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-76169894808081156372018-02-24T22:48:09.292+02:002018-02-24T22:48:09.292+02:00Thank you. I wish the Thirty Years War analogy was...Thank you. I wish the Thirty Years War analogy was one I thought up.Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-51117301620717581572018-02-24T22:43:44.266+02:002018-02-24T22:43:44.266+02:00A new version of the Thirty Years War? That is a v...A new version of the Thirty Years War? That is a very good analogy.<br /><br />The joy in which people killed is explicable as loosing a secret or repressed wish.<br /><br />Interesting review!<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-8256870201643505922018-02-24T20:38:42.737+02:002018-02-24T20:38:42.737+02:00I was literally just reading my notes about Ukrain...I was literally just reading my notes about Ukraine when you wrote to me. I can recommend John Loftus's and Ross Bellants' books on how the CIA used Ukrainian nationalists to undermine the USSR and how these nationalist movements had a great influence on making the cold war worse. Operation Bloodstone. Who was using whom? pellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10802565158474879117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-80947702818251667332018-02-24T19:19:08.542+02:002018-02-24T19:19:08.542+02:00A propos of Gilles de Rais, I see that it has been...A propos of Gilles de Rais, I see that it has been suggested that he was not guilty but framed. http://gillesderaiswasinnocent.blogspot.ro/2013/04/Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.com