Comments on: True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country http://ventolin.org/2010/06/true-terror-is-to-wake-up-one-morning-and-discover/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:12:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: johnl http://ventolin.org/2010/06/true-terror-is-to-wake-up-one-morning-and-discover/comment-page-1/#comment-1465 johnl Sat, 11 Sep 2010 23:09:42 +0000 http://ventolin.org/?p=557#comment-1465 http://johnl.org/2009/09/15/true-terror-is/ http://johnl.org/2009/09/15/true-terror-is/

]]> By: aengus http://ventolin.org/2010/06/true-terror-is-to-wake-up-one-morning-and-discover/comment-page-1/#comment-1447 aengus Sat, 07 Aug 2010 19:49:01 +0000 http://ventolin.org/?p=557#comment-1447 mmm, I'd be inclined to agree with you, but then when I consider the surging popularity of the Neo-Nazi movement in Russia, keeping in mind the USSR's unthinkably huge casualties in World War 2, I think it has less to do with the direct impact upon a country's peoples and more to do with self-imposed blind ignorance... Like in the last paragraph of the quotes I took from the BBC News article - “The killing of Jews was not good, but everybody has a positive and negative side.” mmm, I’d be inclined to agree with you, but then when I consider the surging popularity of the Neo-Nazi movement in Russia, keeping in mind the USSR’s unthinkably huge casualties in World War 2, I think it has less to do with the direct impact upon a country’s peoples and more to do with self-imposed blind ignorance…

Like in the last paragraph of the quotes I took from the BBC News article – “The killing of Jews was not good, but everybody has a positive and negative side.”

]]> By: Eremi http://ventolin.org/2010/06/true-terror-is-to-wake-up-one-morning-and-discover/comment-page-1/#comment-1446 Eremi Fri, 06 Aug 2010 17:41:58 +0000 http://ventolin.org/?p=557#comment-1446 What an interesting phenomenon. There does seem to be a certain naivete in admiring Hitler for his "discipline" and "patriotism"... Though when one considers the popularity of Che and Mao T-shirts in the US and Western Europe, it seems a bit more understandable. Perhaps it's easier to overlook historical figures' grimmer deeds when you come from a part of the world whose history was not directly affected by their actions. What an interesting phenomenon. There does seem to be a certain naivete in admiring Hitler for his “discipline” and “patriotism”… Though when one considers the popularity of Che and Mao T-shirts in the US and Western Europe, it seems a bit more understandable. Perhaps it’s easier to overlook historical figures’ grimmer deeds when you come from a part of the world whose history was not directly affected by their actions.

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