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its "russian propaganda" insofar as acknowledging the facts would amount to a propaganda victory for Russia

if anyone is curious about the intentional famine narrative origins, I have an effort post about that: https://hexbear.net/post/342686

Gareth Jones's accounts of what was happening in Soviet Ukraine in 1932-33 were different from other western accounts.

he was once on a 16-seat aircraft with the new German chancellor, Adolph Hitler, and Joseph Goebbels, on their way to a rally in Frankfurt. [literally a month before he wrote his first terror famine article]

His writings for fascist American newspaper owner William Randolph Hearst were the first time the phrase "manmade famine" was used in relation to Ukraine. It started as anti-communist propaganda.

Following Hitler's rise to power, Hearst became a supporter of the Nazi Party, ordering his journalists to publish favourable coverage of Nazi Germany, and allowing leading Nazis to publish articles in his newspapers.

With “AMERICA FIRST” emblazoned on his newspaper masthead, Hearst celebrated the “great achievement” of the new Nazi regime in Germany—a lesson to all “liberty-loving people”—the defeat of communism. In 1934 Hearst visited Berlin to interview Adolf Hitler. When Hitler asked why he was so misunderstood by the American press, Hearst retorted: "Because Americans believe in democracy, and are averse to dictatorship." William Randolph Hearst instructed his reporters in Germany to give positive coverage of the Nazis, and fired journalists who refused to write stories favourable of German fascism. Hearst's papers ran columns without rebuttal by Nazi leader Hermann Göring, Alfred Rosenberg, and Hitler himself, as well as Mussolini and other dictators in Europe and Latin America.

Whoever does that channels thumbnails deserves a raise lmao

Yeah, this is exacty what is happening. Getting the whole population whipped up in to xenophobic bloodlust, while supporting the "holodomor" narrative and the double genocide narrative is intended to both corrupt the history of the 20th century, of communism, and to stain modern russians with these lies so dc et al can further their agendas in eastern europe. The "double holocaust" is also a hand-out specifically to baltic, polish, ukrainian, and other eastern european fascists whose ahistorical mythology requires the soviets to have engaged in genocidal actiions so the fascists can both justify their ant-russianness and anti-communism, while also creating the impression that the deliberate extermination of the Jewish population by the very regimes they admire was not unique or significant bc they fasely assert ehy were also subject to genocidal destruction, but from the soviets.

Absolutely depraved delusions, and nato, dc, and the eu are going all-in on it to support their 21st century geopolitical strategies.

Modi picked absolutely, unquestionably, hysterically, the best and funniest time to violate Canadian sovereignty with a bit of cheeky assassinating.

To paraphrase the citations needed on whataboutism,

dawg if you don't like Russian propaganda saying you're whitewashing nazis, then start by not fucking whitewashing the nazis

History has constantly been re-written in Canada just like the US unfortunately. This shouldn't be new or surprising for the Canucks here

Trudeau's response is a distillation and perfect example of the type of response to always expect from these explicitly, ideologically committed, upper-class liberals (i.e. not just, like, your lib mum who doesn't know better) with some understanding of power.

They will never concede. They will never admit they were wrong. Always backtrack. Move the goalposts. Change meaning, assumptions ad hoc. Never trust these people. Don't waste your time trying to radicalize upper class people who seem even somewhat to be genuinely, explicitly, self-consciously liberal.

Facts can be propaganda