US Official just straight up rewriting history now

why the fuck would the nazis' mortal enemy bury evidence of the nazis' atrocities?

talking about the ussr ofc, america was never actually the nazis' enemy

well you see, communism and nazism are actually the exact same thing
- not even an exaggeration of liberal rhetoric on WW2
I can't even think of what the reason he would say the Soviets would have to bury the history. I went to the post to see if users agreed or added more to his point but of course he hid the replies.
- According to NATOpedia, the USSR emphasized all of the victims at Babi Yar, soviets of all ethnicities and so didnt erect memorials specifically to Jewish and Roma victims. Something like 34,000 Jews, basically every Jew in Kiev was murdered there and then over the next months or years many more people, Poles, disabled, Russians, Communists etc were also killed with total victims being about 100,000.
  So the soviets did not bury the history, they openly acknowledged the history but emphasized all victims as civilians murdered by fascism and didn’t emphasize the Jewish and Roma genocides explicitly or prominently. Thats my understanding of what Blinken means by “buried history” after a quick glance at wikipedia at least.
Stalin used time travel to learn of the current situation and decided to cover it up so Putin could spring it as propaganda or whatever.
Good to know that the US secretary of state is trustworthy as always.
Blinken was one of the officials on Biden's staff waaay back in the early aughts that helped goad Biden into pounding the table for the invasion of Iraq. You can count on him to reliably have the absolute worst position on all things foreign policy.
They're saying that the "covering" is telling those atrocities

"US Official" kind of undersells it. This is the Secretary of State. It is the highest ranking position in the executive branch that doesn't end in "President."

The secretary of state passively did some Holocaust revisionism and the average Joe STILL thinks the government isn't fascist ENOUGH.

I'm starting to think Stalin was too restrained in hist treatment of Nazis and that is a wild thing to think.
- Should have hunted every last one of them down like
  Letting a single one of them get to
  or
  was a mistake
- thinking about that (misattributed?) quote,
  "Compared to Lenin, Stalin was a mere lamb" - Molotov
- This is a pretty uninformed take of mine but I feel like post WW2 USSR consistently underestimated how ruthless and barbaric the capitalist West could be.

why would the soviets cover up a nazi massacre

They're obviously evil, haven't you watched Stranger Things?
- No I hate people talking about used to be. I think used to be chokes the life out of countries that embrace it. For example "we used to have a great empire" well we don't anymore move on
  Successful countries aren't always talking about how things used to be great they are talking about what will be
fr, easy propaganda win against an invader
makes no fucking sense

They call him Blinken because you gotta be asleep to believe his words

Babi Yar was carried out by German SS and Ukrainian Auxiliary Police.

(when did it become Babyn Yar? Is this another one of those incredibly forced geopolitical attempts to swap out Anglicization of Russian terms for Anglicization of Ukrainian?)

Part 1: A brief history of the OUN-B nazi-collaborationist faction from which current day neo nazis are descended (CW: images of dead bodies, including children, images of pogroms, images likely taken during incident of SA, images from the holocaust)

Part 2: A brief history of the OUN-B nazi-collaborationist faction from which current day neo nazis are descended (CW: images of dead bodies, including children, images of pogroms, images likely taken during incident of SA, images from the holocaust)

There's been a weird push to paint the USSR as Nazi Germany's ally for the first few years of the war. It's a bit terrifying seeing history rewritten at this scale.

it's an attempt to exaggerate the molotov ribbentrop pact and ignore the lead up to it. The USSR tried to do realpolitik in two ways. first they went around trying to form an antifascist alliance with the "Liberal Democracies" of Europe in the early 30s. Naturally the "Liberal Democracies" of Europe did not take them upon this offer because A) They were trading with, funding, enabling and/or ignoring fascist italy and fascist Germany and B) They were hoping to use the fascist states as an anticommunist bulwark. Slowly all these countries started to sign nonaggression pacts with the fascists. The USSR was the last to do so, fearing invasion, and needing to buy time to move their factories East, out of Hitler's way. So they signed the molotov ribbentrop pact, and invaded Poland alongside Germany. Now there's two ways of looking at this. One is that they teamed up with Hitler to fuck up Poland. The other way of looking at it is they temporarily prevented East Poland from being invaded by Nazi Germany. They also got into the winter war with finland. Stalin expected Finland would also be used as a corridor for Nazi invasion. They tried to buy that land from Finland, but Finland refused. After the Winter War, Finland gave intelligence to Germany, became an axis power, and allowed Germany to invade through that corridor.
- fun fact, White Finland was in bed with the nazis as soon as they burst into the scene.
  this "oh nooo those evil meanie soviets pushed finland to ally with nazis" - shit is ass covering at its finest
It's been quite successful too. And it's not a new push either

: "Wait, you're a Holocaust denier? Get a load of the SJW reverse-racist over here! Why deny the Holocaust when you can just say the soviets did it and Nazi Germany was squeaky clean? I mean, communism is bad because high school said so, but ironically this logic does not play out for the nazis or the confederates."

This is going to be their new talking point, isn't it? Because of course the biggest threat to the west would do what it can to make the ultimate expression of the west's bourgeoisie, sinful history look good.

Next week: Soviet soldiers did not liberate Auschwitz. Ukrainian soldiers did
- That has literally already happened. Too lazy to dig it up though.
- I've heard "Zhukov wasn't soviet he was Ukrainian" now even including Ukrainians in high level government positions is oppressing Ukrainians
- Pretty soon liberals will be on some race science shit about soviet being an exctinct neanderthal race that superior skulled Ukrainians outbred and replaced by 1991
I was just assuming that we would decide that communism is a jewish conspiracy and conclude the holocaust was self defence

EDIT: Also the community notes kept disappearing at times, probably butthurt
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They announced earlier this week that they're going to remove community notes. Tbh I thought they'd be gone by now

They announced earlier this week that they're going to remove community notes. Tbh I thought they'd be gone by now
Probably clashes with engagement. If a note correction exists then it takes away outrage engagement that would otherwise be generated by people trying to oppose complete and total bullshit.

Is there ever a consequence to blatant falsehood? Surely there is a folly to a confidence game without a tether to reality

shoutout to readers adding context

Fuuuuuck this shit

usians are the most propagandized people on earth

Ghoul

What the actual actual fuck.

Did he mix up Katyn and Babyn or something?

Even in that case, one would literally have to say to themselves, "I trust Goebbels" to believe the Soviets did Katyn
- On May 8, 1943 he wrote down in his diary: ‘Unfortunately German ammunition has been found in the graves of Katyn. The question of how it got there needs clarification’. It is evident that Goebbels immediately started to invent plausible explanations. This is why he wrote: ‘It must be either the ammunition sold by us during the period of our friendly arrangement with the Soviet Russians, or else the Soviets themselves threw it into graves’. 🤔

One of my friends was saying the Soviets were covering it up because they said it was a massacre of Soviet citizens and played down that it was a massacre of Jews. And that is where the minimizing the Holocaust narrative comes in. It's just so in the weeds I don't care. And Blinken obviously isn't the one trying to be nuanced.

The greater irony in this twisted logic is that the Holocaust happened to more groups than just Jews but here in
the version we're taught in schools tends to not talk about how the nazis wanted to exterminate slavs or LGBT people which in of itself is Holocaust denial by omission
- or LGBT people which in of itself is Holocaust denial by omission
  The US probably doesn't want to teach about LGBT people in the Holocaust because when the US liberated the camps they freed the Jews but they kept the homosexuals imprisoned within the camps.
In answer to your inquiry :
National and racial chauvinism is a vestige of the misanthropic customs characteristic of the period of cannibalism. Anti-semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism.
Anti-semitism is of advantage to the exploiters as a lightning conductor that deflects the blows aimed by the working people at capitalism. Anti-semitism is dangerous for the working people as being a false path that leads them off the right road and lands them in the jungle. Hence Communists, as consistent internationalists, cannot but be irreconcilable, sworn enemies of anti-semitism.
In the U.S.S.R. anti-semitism is punishable with the utmost severity of the law as a phenomenon deeply hostile to the Soviet system. Under U.S.S.R. law active anti-semites are liable to the death penalty.
J. Stalin January 12, 1931
Of course this does ignore the fact that there is nothing about being Jewish that makes you less of a soviet citizen