( ・-・) I wouldn't say this if this wasn't an anonymous board... (999)

540 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-7620 20:58

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( ・-・) The only "far right" government in Eastern Europe today is the Putin regime in Russia. We are aware of the Russian state propaganda organs' propensity to use the words "Nazi" and "fascist" for anyone, anywhere, who opposes Russian jingoism, revanchism, and irridentism. As a result the terms have lost all meaning and become empty obscenities, not even political.

And yes, we are also aware that Ukraine was once an integral part of Russian Empire and USSR, in exactly the same sense that Manchuria, Korea, Indochina, and the Philippines were once integral parts of the Japanese Empire. "Deep ties," indeed.

Why are Russians so tone-deaf, so unwilling to consider that centuries of brutal occupation, rape, looting, and mass murder of their neighbors might have left their neighbors a bit resentful, that their neighbors might not fully share in their enthusiasm and nostalgia for "the good old days" of the USSR?

Even the Japanese are better at taking a hint. The Japanese at least comprehend that their neighbors resent them and are suspicious of their motives, and that it has something to do with Twentieth Century history, though they still do not seem to grasp exactly why.

But this is becoming excessively serious.

( ・m・) I'm not into the whole recreating-the-Soviet-Empire-by-force-over-the-strenuous-objections-of-the-people-living-there thing.

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