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Savagery For All | James Howard Kunstler
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust
Feb. 24, 2014
A glance through the annals of history tells us that the Golden Age of Ukraine occurred just as western Europe was emerging from its long, dark, post-Roman coma around the 10th and 11th centuries, A.D.
After that, it was a kind of polo field for sundry sweeping hordes of mounted hell-bringers: Tatars, Turks, Cossacks, Bulgars, Napoleons grand army. In modern times, its population was divided between allegiance to Russia or to the Germanic states of the west. The Russian soviet regime treated it very badly. As many Ukrainians starved to death under Stalins terror famine of 1932-1933 as Jews and others were killed later in Hitlers death camps. Stalin went on to try and totally erase Ukraines ethnic identity.
The Nazis wanted to go even further: to erase the Slavic population altogether so that the great fertile breadbasket of Ukraine could provide lebensraum for German colonizers. Stalin foolishly signed a non-aggression pact with Hitler in 1939 -- had he not read Mein Kampf? Less than two years later, Germany turned around and invaded Russia, using Ukraine as doormat and mud-room for a horrific struggle that left Kiev, the capital city of Ukraine, a virtual ashtray, and 28,000 villages destroyed.
Culture, as we know, is resilient. But given that history, one wonders what the current disposition of all these historical tides portends. The few thousand Americans not completely distracted by tweeting the content of their breakfasts or shooting naked selfies or texting behind the wheel -- yea, even the gallant minority not mentally colonized by the slave-masters of Silicon Valley -- must wonder what the heck happened in the streets of Kiev last week. Or, as Sir Mick Jagger famously said at the deadly Altamont Speedway festival, Whos fighting, and what for? By the way, dont count the editors of The New York Times among the aforementioned gallant minority of digital idiocy resisters. Todays front page contained this rich nugget:
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Savagery For All | James Howard Kunstler (Original Post)
Tace
Feb 2014
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dougolat
(716 posts)1. Yes! A voice of reason amidst the hubbub uninformed adgendas
And Gregory Crawford is another Rude Pundit: anger can cut thru the crap.
Tace
(6,800 posts)2. dougolat: Thanks For The Encouragement
We really appreciate your positive comments. This news website stuff can be a thankless (and money-losing) task.
I'll forward your kind words to my grumpy sidekick (Crawford). --Tace
gregcrawford
(2,382 posts)3. Rude Pundit?
Yeah, I can live with that! Thanks, Dougolat.
Gregory Crawford, Professional Curmudgeon