If we don’t study it carefully, we may fall into history’s trap
The Churchill Complex: The Curse of Being Special, From Winston and FDR to Trump and Brexitto justify his invasion of Ukraine. “Again and again, we have to repel the aggression of the collective West,” he said with a straight face, without mentioning that the United Kingdom and the United States were the Soviet Union’s allies during the war. Then, as now, he added, Russia is threatened by German tanks, forced to defend itself against “the ideology of Nazism in its modern form.
As for German tanks allegedly threatening Russia, the reason why German Chancellor Olaf Scholz dithered for so long before agreeing to send Violence is often fuelled by the memory of historic wrongs, and the Holocaust is no different. For example, right-wing Israeli politicians, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, constantly invoke the real trauma of the Holocaust to– and often violent repression – of Palestinians in the occupied territories and within the country’s pre-1967 borders.
, and sitting Republican U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene comparing COVID-19 public-health measures to the Nazis’ persecution of Jews. While it is tempting to attribute such offensive views to cynicism and malice, the cause is often just plain ignorance.
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