Interestingly, I flipped the term around to mean the opposite of what you’re saying in my “Letter to a Holocaust Denier” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-holocaust-denier) to really get under the pro-vaxxers’ skin (or should I say needle them ;-)
And yes, Hollywood’s obsession with the Third Reich as a special sort of…
And yes, Hollywood’s obsession with the Third Reich as a special sort of evil to the exclusion of all other genocidal regimes is oddly convenient for the Red side of the equation …
Regarding Holdomor, I just quoted Solzhenistyn’s chapter (“The Peasant Plague,” “The Gulag Archipelago,” Chapter 2 of vol. 3) on that in a recent comment somewhere:
“This chapter will deal with a small matter. Fifteen million souls. Fifteen million lives.…
“But about the silent, treacherous Plague which starved fifteen million of our peasants to death, choosing its victims carefully and destroying the backbone and mainstay of the Russian people—about that Plague there are no books. No bugles bid our hearts beat faster for them. Not even the traditional three stones mark the crossroads where they went in creaking carts to their doom. Our finest humanists, so sensitive to today’s injustices, in those years only nodded approvingly: Quite right, too! Just what they deserve!
“It was all kept so dark, every stain so carefully scratched out, every whisper so swiftly choked, that whereas I now have to refuse kind offers of material on the camps—‘No more, my friends, I have masses of such stories, I don’t know where to put them!’—nobody brings me a thing about the deported peasants. Who is the person that could tell us about them? Where is he? …
“The plan, however, remained in their heads, and all through the twenties they bullied and prodded and taunted: ‘Kulak! Kulak! Kulak!’ The thought that it was impossible to live in the same world as the kulak was gradually built up in the minds of townspeople.
“The devastating peasant Plague began, as far as we can judge, in 1929—the compilation of murder lists, the confiscations, the deportations. But only at the beginning of 1930 (after rehearsals were complete, and necessary adjustments made) was the public allowed to learn what was happening—in the decision of the Central Committee of the Party dated January 5. (The Party is ‘justified in shifting from a policy of restricting the exploiting tendencies of the kulaks to a policy of liquidating the kulaks as a class.’ And the admission of kulaks to the kolkhoz was immediately … prohibited. Would anyone like to attempt a coherent explanation?)
“The dutifully concurring Central Executive Committee of the Soviets and the Council of People’s Commissars were not far behind the Central Committee, and on February 1, 1930, they gave legislative form to the will of the Party. Provincial Executive Committees were required to ‘use all necessary methods in the struggle with the kulaks, up to and including [in reality no other method was used] complete confiscation of the property of kulaks and their removal to points beyond the boundaries of certain regions and provinces.’”
Interestingly, I flipped the term around to mean the opposite of what you’re saying in my “Letter to a Holocaust Denier” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-holocaust-denier) to really get under the pro-vaxxers’ skin (or should I say needle them ;-)
And yes, Hollywood’s obsession with the Third Reich as a special sort of evil to the exclusion of all other genocidal regimes is oddly convenient for the Red side of the equation …
Regarding Holdomor, I just quoted Solzhenistyn’s chapter (“The Peasant Plague,” “The Gulag Archipelago,” Chapter 2 of vol. 3) on that in a recent comment somewhere:
“This chapter will deal with a small matter. Fifteen million souls. Fifteen million lives.…
“But about the silent, treacherous Plague which starved fifteen million of our peasants to death, choosing its victims carefully and destroying the backbone and mainstay of the Russian people—about that Plague there are no books. No bugles bid our hearts beat faster for them. Not even the traditional three stones mark the crossroads where they went in creaking carts to their doom. Our finest humanists, so sensitive to today’s injustices, in those years only nodded approvingly: Quite right, too! Just what they deserve!
“It was all kept so dark, every stain so carefully scratched out, every whisper so swiftly choked, that whereas I now have to refuse kind offers of material on the camps—‘No more, my friends, I have masses of such stories, I don’t know where to put them!’—nobody brings me a thing about the deported peasants. Who is the person that could tell us about them? Where is he? …
“The plan, however, remained in their heads, and all through the twenties they bullied and prodded and taunted: ‘Kulak! Kulak! Kulak!’ The thought that it was impossible to live in the same world as the kulak was gradually built up in the minds of townspeople.
“The devastating peasant Plague began, as far as we can judge, in 1929—the compilation of murder lists, the confiscations, the deportations. But only at the beginning of 1930 (after rehearsals were complete, and necessary adjustments made) was the public allowed to learn what was happening—in the decision of the Central Committee of the Party dated January 5. (The Party is ‘justified in shifting from a policy of restricting the exploiting tendencies of the kulaks to a policy of liquidating the kulaks as a class.’ And the admission of kulaks to the kolkhoz was immediately … prohibited. Would anyone like to attempt a coherent explanation?)
“The dutifully concurring Central Executive Committee of the Soviets and the Council of People’s Commissars were not far behind the Central Committee, and on February 1, 1930, they gave legislative form to the will of the Party. Provincial Executive Committees were required to ‘use all necessary methods in the struggle with the kulaks, up to and including [in reality no other method was used] complete confiscation of the property of kulaks and their removal to points beyond the boundaries of certain regions and provinces.’”