The zigzags of politically correct opinion in communist regimes

Re:The zigzags of politically correct opinion in communist r... by LudwigNagasena on Sunday August 28, 2022 @10:03PM (#32634076)

Uh, the US bombed so many places, of course young people can’t remember all of them. Meanwhile people who live nearby those places actually know about them.

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Re:The zigzags of politically correct opinion in communist r... by abernard1 on Monday August 29, 2022 @01:04AM (#32634965)

There's more to it than that though. Aside from global insularity, Americans have an extremely short psychological conception of history.

One of the reasons Russians remember history is they have a lot more of it. When your civilization is 1100 years old and a cultural descendant of the Byzantine Empire, your ideas around what to remember are significantly different than an American. People who care about The Current Thing™ or what one of the Kardashian sisters is doing at a given moment aren't going to even have the proper resolution or framing to think that way.

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Re:The zigzags of politically correct opinion in communist r... by hackerlight on Monday August 29, 2022 @04:30AM (#32635934)

> aren't going to even have the proper resolution or framing to think that way.

Possibly for the best. The revanchist sentiment that comes from admiration of and longing for a fallen empire is a toxin on our species.

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