I also noticed a pronounced respect from visitors who at the time I was there (Oct. 2015) were mostly Russians although nothing as extreme as here. On the other hand on related posts of mine I had to be very watchful on the comments:
John Hardy not a Turnbull fan Makes me wonder about the relation between cultures and the proportion of such an authoritarian crowd and how to avoid such a result
God Emperor Lionel Lauer, Jeff Zahari way down in the scale of tyranny some might name Obama and most but not all would agree on Adolf Hitler at the other end. In times of war many democratic leaders might have to wear a tyran hat… In other words, you can’t put everyone in the same bag.
The 20th century genocides really need to be understood in the context of the genocides that were perpetrated on non-European peoples during the colonial period. The colonial armies first developed their methods of industrial scale mass murder on the people they claimed to “civilize”.
John Hardy not a Turnbull fan — Belgium’s crimes in the Congo were so extreme that they shocked even the other 19th-century colonial powers, which is quite something; however, it was all quickly forgiven and forgotten when they switched to being “brave little Belgium” standing up against the German invasion in 1914.
I suspect Agatha Christie made Poirot a Belgian refugee precisely because it was the most sympathetic foreigner possible to a British audience right after WWI, something that wouldn’t have been true before the war (look at Conrad’s portrayal of Brussels as harsh, souless, and bleached white in Heart of Darkness).
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Brains? No, never heard of such thing
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I also noticed a pronounced respect from visitors who at the time I was there (Oct. 2015) were mostly Russians although nothing as extreme as here. On the other hand on related posts of mine I had to be very watchful on the comments:
https://goo.gl/tk7rVB, https://goo.gl/AvKkJ5. Amazing how such a man who pretty much hated everyone else can still be adored by some.
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Strong men appeal to the authoritarian minded. Every society has them.
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John Hardy not a Turnbull fan Makes me wonder about the relation between cultures and the proportion of such an authoritarian crowd and how to avoid such a result
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The more brutally unfair a society is the greater the attraction of these figures, I guess. Russia has never been a terribly relaxing place to live.
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If you ask any of those people, they would blow your mind with fake facts about how great he was
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Zaid El-Hoiydi People are still praising Margaret Thatcher today, even though her policies are still killing people.
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There’s a nice statue of King Leopold in Brussels.
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God Emperor Lionel Lauer, Jeff Zahari way down in the scale of tyranny some might name Obama and most but not all would agree on Adolf Hitler at the other end. In times of war many democratic leaders might have to wear a tyran hat… In other words, you can’t put everyone in the same bag.
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Leopold killed 10 million Congolese.
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Jeff Zahari Ok then Leopold gets to be above Hitler.
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Leopold really was one history’s monsters.
The 20th century genocides really need to be understood in the context of the genocides that were perpetrated on non-European peoples during the colonial period. The colonial armies first developed their methods of industrial scale mass murder on the people they claimed to “civilize”.
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It’s surprising to see Russians acknowledging a Georgian as their superior and rightful overlord—I hadn’t expected such humility from nationalists.
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Jughashvili presumably gets honorary Russian status, a bit like, say, Ted Cruz.
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John Hardy not a Turnbull fan — Belgium’s crimes in the Congo were so extreme that they shocked even the other 19th-century colonial powers, which is quite something; however, it was all quickly forgiven and forgotten when they switched to being “brave little Belgium” standing up against the German invasion in 1914.
I suspect Agatha Christie made Poirot a Belgian refugee precisely because it was the most sympathetic foreigner possible to a British audience right after WWI, something that wouldn’t have been true before the war (look at Conrad’s portrayal of Brussels as harsh, souless, and bleached white in Heart of Darkness).
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