The Palestinians are almost entirely descended from ancient Jews.

She didn’t ask to have a medical condition. Keep your perverted insensitivity to yourself.

You should contact @muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml about that.

Was it intended for /c/fuckcars?

“Everybody is saying that my Cossacks slaughtered peaceful residents, women, and children. This is nonsense! According to my orders, they only fought Bolsheviks. I gave a command to root out Bolsheviks. If Jewish women, children, and the elderly are Bolsheviks, it is their fault, not mine.”⁶⁴

The blame for the violence, Semosenko continued, lay with the city council for having failed to stop the Bolshevik uprising and with the Jews for their Bolshevism.

(Source.)

Not that different from how Herzlians talk about Palestinians.

I decided to look on Walmartipedia to see what trouble Butch Hartman has been causing lately. He is working at an explicitly Christian network titled Great American Pure Flix. I went to the search function and entered this:

‘Armenian’

Results:

We’re sorry. We are having trouble finding a match to your search.

…

Okay, so much for finding a film on the Meds Yeghern. How about the Shoah? Many Evangelicals at least pretend to care about the Shoah, and some of the victims were either Judeo-Christians or at least legally ‘Jewish’. We’ll have a higher chance finding something therein.

‘Holocaust’

Results:

We’re sorry. We are having trouble finding a match to your search.

Let’s try again.

‘Shoah’

Results:

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Okay, we can’t go wrong with this next one!

‘Nazi’

Results:

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon

Sabina: Tortured for Christ

Hey, we got something! Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon has nothing to do with Christianity, but that other one should. Let’s look it up.

https://www.sabinamovie.com/

Sabina: Tortured for Christ, the Nazi Years is the story of how G-d’s love transformed an ambitious, worldly atheist into one of the greatest Christian women of the 20th century. The film opens with Sabina Wurmbrand risking her life to show Christ’s love to three Nazi soldiers. Why would a Christian from a Jewish background risk her life to help her enemies — members of the army that killed her entire family? Experience a true story of biblical love and forgiveness that has inspired millions around the world.

I quickly notice that this website is heavily targeted at churches. This would explain the film’s limited reach or niche appeal. The website features brief biographies on Sabina and her husband Richard, ‘who suffered under Nazi and Communist oppression’. Remember: merely suffering under Fascist oppression = Snoozeville. But suffering under Fascism and a people’s republic? Jackpot!

Anyway, I did some more research and was disturbed by what I found:

Voice of the Martyrs’ founder Richard Wurmbrand has his own story in Jesus Freaks, though it’s not clear who authored it. I was surprised to read that his first infraction—the act that supposedly put a target on his back and led to his arrest and torture by the Communist government—was kind of in opposition to other Christians.

It was a year after the Communists had seized power in Romania. The government had invited all religious leaders to attend a congress at the Parliament building over 4,000 attended. First, they chose Joseph Stalin as honorary president of the congress. Then the speeches began. It was absurd and horrible. Communism was dedicated to the destruction of religion, as had already been shown in Russia.

Yet bishops and pastors arose and declared that Communism and Christianity were fundamentally the same and could coexist. Out of fear, these men of G-d were filling the air with flattery and lies.

It was as if they spat in Jesus Christ’s face.

Sabina Wurmbrand could stand it no longer. She whispered to her husband, “Richard, stand up and wash away this shame from the face of Christ.”

Richard knew what would happen. “If I speak, you will lose your husband.”

Sabina replied, “I do not wish to have a coward for a husband.”

Pastor Wurmbrand took the stage. To everyone’s surprise, he began to preach. Immediately, a great silence fell on the hall.

“Delegates, it is our duty not to praise earthly powers that come and go, but to glorify G-d the Creator and Christ the Savior, who died for us on the cross.” […] The atmosphere began to change. The audience began to applaud. He was saying what they had all wanted to say, but were afraid to.

The book’s introduction claims that “Our culture understands heroism. But we don’t understand martyrs.” It’s true, there is something compelling about sacrifice, particularly if it is selfless. But this seems like an odd dichotomy—heroism versus martyrdom—for a book so hagiographically valorizing martyrs to set up.

“I do not wish to have a coward for a husband,” Wurmbrand’s wife prompts. These ideas of cowardice and bravery flatten the martyr just as the role of evil persecutor flattens the enemy, preventing any cooperation or coexistence.

Later in the story, after describing the tortures he faced while under arrest, Wurmbrand says that it was important for him to learn to pity and love his torturers—in fact, that he was divinely inspired to do so. “Only love can change the communist and the terrorist,” he says.

But when I look at these stories, I don’t see any love. I see loopholes, ways out—ways to politicize faith without saying it, and ways for aggressors to feel like victims.

If his tale about the SRR’s authorities torturing him is true (and who knows, maybe it is true) then I am unhappy that that happened. That being said, it was also unacceptable for him to tell his tale of oppression as if it were solely his Christianity that was to blame and not his anticommunism. I find that framing to be dishonest or at least highly misleading. Also, his wife sounded mean. ‘I do not wish to have a coward for a husband’…? Was that really the type of attitude that he needed from his wife of all people?

Here is some more information on Voice of the Martyrs:

VOM clearly distinguishes itself from its secular counterparts by working exclusively on behalf of Christians. Addressing the audience at Calvary Chapel in 2012, VOM board member Mark Shumaker explained, “We don’t let ourselves get off track by helping people who aren’t persecuted Christians.”

This is one of the many reasons that Christian conservatives get on my nerves: they (almost) always prioritise the others in their sect first and foremost; everybody who turns down the offer to join their sect—even if they do it as politely as possible—can literally go to Hell. There is very little biblical basis for this principle; we therefore cannot reductively blame it on ‘religion’, but this phenomenon’s prevalence despite its lack of biblical support remains an important reason that I tend to keep my expectations low when I hear ‘Christian’. No offense to @mathemachristian@hexbear.net.

Gaza is, by far, the safest and most well fed place on Earth. There is not a single civilian anywhere in there who feels the least bit peckish. I was in there yesterday and everybody told me that they were having nothing but the time of their lives, constantly eating all of their gourmet meals generously provided by the IDF. If given the choice between taking my family to either Disneyland or Gaza, I would choose Gaza without a second’s hesitation. Easily. No contest.

The only conceivable reason that the United Nations, the ICRC, The Lancet, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, and more than one hundred other organizations would condemn the war on Hamas is that they want to exterminate the Jewish race, just like anybody who opposes the Ukrainian government is a Russian troll who wants Putin to annex Ukraine and genocide millions of European people with blond hair and blue eyes. If all of those thousands of so-called ‘experts’ and ‘scholars’ had my superior brain, they’d agree wholeheartedly.

The IDF are the most moral army in the world and are not oppressing anybody whatsoever in Gaza. I’m not saying that the IDF are perfect, but if you found evidence of the IDF committing war crimes, it wasn’t evidence of the IDF committing war crimes. So relax, keep calm and everything will be perfectly fine as long as you keep sending us those tax dollars. I promise.

Signed,
Benjamin Netanyahu

I basically agree, it is usually not a good sign when Washington supports another régime, but it would be easy for somebody to argue that the U.S.S.R. during WWII was an exception because of Imperial America’s propaganda support therefor and, of course, the lend-lease pack that antisocialists never tire of overrating.

Aha, but that would include the Soviet Union during World War II! Checkmate!

Not harsh enough.

american concentration camps called out by name in the planning docs for auschwitz

Where did you learn about this?

When the Allies reclaimed Nordhausen it was the anticommunists, not the Soviets, who ended up with the larger share of the scientific materials.

The remaining Axis scientists that the Soviets did capture still had to live in unglamorous conditions: on some projects the Soviet authorities limited the rôle of the Axis specialists merely to consultation and practical training.

Finally, three anticommunist rocket experts confirmed that by 1952 the U.S.S.R. had sent most of these Axis scientists back home, and that the Soviets (obviously) made major strides on their own.

It’s not really funny.

I should have noticed it earlier, but seeing that photograph comparison made me realize that Herzlians deny the extermination of Gazans despite its overwhelming evidence whereas they completely believe in the Uygur genocide conspiracy theory despite its utter lack of evidence.

The best explanation that I can propose is that they simply had not yet heard the news that Benito Mussolini was the official head of the Salò régime.

‘Truth Can Only Come on the Battlefield: The Failure of Negotiations to Prevent the Finnish-Soviet Winter War of 1939–40’

Finland in World War II: History, Memory, Interpretations

‘Japanese Intelligence Operations in Scandinavia during World War II’

There’s not much to be gained by someone/something doing the equivalent of “nononononononononononono I’m not listening!”

I can’t begin to imagine how much effort it must take to lack this much self-awareness.

Yeah, they wrote all of those reports before Putin bought them out and replaced all of the staff with Russian trolls. That is how badly Putin is doing right now: he is literally so desperate to win that he spent trillions of rubles acquiring Western media while his army keeps screaming for help.

I promise that Russia will lose the war tomorrow.

hay didja kno putin is like literally genociding like a million uyghurs now. betcha never heard that 1 b4 huh

wait what do you mean i’m banned???

Every time.

The ‘Winter War’ was famously a disaster for Soviet forces. […] The Finns […] faced an enemy whose war effort was so clumsy and disorganized, with inadequately clothed and armed troops forced to march in line abreast against fixed Finnish defences, that the failings encouraged confidence in German army circles that a future war with the Soviet Union was winnable. […] The Red Army losses have never been confirmed but are estimated at something between 230,000 and 270,000; Finnish losses amounted to some 24,923.¹⁹

[…]

Norwegian resistance was sustained and on 15 April was joined by a British–French–Polish force which landed in northern Norway in an attempt to seize the port of Narvik. Despite difficulties of supply and severe losses of naval shipping, German forces succeeded in consolidating their position in Norway and after the outbreak of the campaign in the West on 10 May, the Allies gradually withdrew from Scandinavia, one of many British retreats over the next 2 years.³³

(Source.)

Notice how this writer, Richard Overy, shifts his tone when talking about Soviet losses and then the Western Allies’. He overstates the importance of Soviet losses and setbacks, probably overestimates them (I suspect), and ultimately suggests that they are both supremely shameful and consequential. Now look at how he talks about the Western Allies’ losses: ‘no biggie. Next!’

Indeed, as far as I can tell, nobody seems particularly embarrassed about all of the liberal régimes’ risibly brief, piss-poor resistance to the Fascist invasions. Nobody attaches any special significance to the Luftwaffe’s bombing of the United Kingdom, or the fact that the Fascists seized one of its islands. And nobody would even dare joke about how maybe the liberal régimes’ weakness had something to do with their ideology. Do we get the same privileges when it comes to any of our imperfections…? I don’t think that I need to answer that question.

It is hard to take Richard Overy’s writing on Scandinavia seriously when he still writes like a stereotypical Cold Warrior, which only makes me reluctant to cite him and writers like him: they constantly bury truths under layers of nonsense.