Post by jabinkhatun908 on Feb 24, 2024 23:18:16 GMT -6
The Surprise and Exasperation Might Have Been Less if Observers Had Taken Into Account the Ideological Power of the Antitotalitarian Paradigm That Forged Memory and Politics in the S. This Paradigm Gave Free Rein to the Rebuilding Central European Right. It Did Not Have to Repent for Its Prewar Antisemitic and Authoritarian Sins as They Paled in Comparison to Nazi and Communist Crimes. The Countries Took Full Advantage of This Advantage at the Time of the Breakdown of the Postcommunist Consensus in the S and S. Neither Snyder Nor Applebaum Are Able to Understand the Important Political Role That the Premise of the Moral Equivalence Between Communism and Nazism Played as a Catalyst for the Nationalconservative Offensive in the Societies of Central and Eastern Europe. Nor Can They See the Crucial Role That the Jewish Question Played in This Process.
Since the Nationalist Right of Those Countries Had Always Associated or Directly Identified in the Case of Their Extreme Wing Communists With Jews They Were Able to Explain Their Nations Crimes Against Jews Not Only by Blaming Them on Pronazi Germany Mobile Number List Collaborators. but Also in Part Presenting These Crimes as a Not Entirely Illegitimate Response to the Judeobolshevik Enemy Who Was as the Premise of Moral Equivalence Affirms as Inhuman as the Nazis. In Accordance With This Premise the Idea of the Uniqueness and Incomparability of the Holocaust Was Attacked in the S and S by the New Postcommunist Elites Who Began to Claim Equal Status for Communist Crimes.
Applebaums Gulag and Red Famine and Snyder S Bloodlands Became Instant Bestsellers in Central and Eastern Europe Precisely Because They Resonated With This Project. When the Postcommunist Transition Was Completed in the S and the National Conservatives Ended Their Alliance With the Liberals They Began to Promote Xenophobic and Racist Views Without Fear of Being Stigmatized as Extremists. The Shield of the Antitotalitarian Paradigm Protected Them From That Possibility. On the One Hand the Suffering of Members of Their Nations at the Hands of the Communists Was Given the Same Moral Status as the Suffering of the Jews in the Holocaust.
Since the Nationalist Right of Those Countries Had Always Associated or Directly Identified in the Case of Their Extreme Wing Communists With Jews They Were Able to Explain Their Nations Crimes Against Jews Not Only by Blaming Them on Pronazi Germany Mobile Number List Collaborators. but Also in Part Presenting These Crimes as a Not Entirely Illegitimate Response to the Judeobolshevik Enemy Who Was as the Premise of Moral Equivalence Affirms as Inhuman as the Nazis. In Accordance With This Premise the Idea of the Uniqueness and Incomparability of the Holocaust Was Attacked in the S and S by the New Postcommunist Elites Who Began to Claim Equal Status for Communist Crimes.
Applebaums Gulag and Red Famine and Snyder S Bloodlands Became Instant Bestsellers in Central and Eastern Europe Precisely Because They Resonated With This Project. When the Postcommunist Transition Was Completed in the S and the National Conservatives Ended Their Alliance With the Liberals They Began to Promote Xenophobic and Racist Views Without Fear of Being Stigmatized as Extremists. The Shield of the Antitotalitarian Paradigm Protected Them From That Possibility. On the One Hand the Suffering of Members of Their Nations at the Hands of the Communists Was Given the Same Moral Status as the Suffering of the Jews in the Holocaust.