Anti-War Speech Sent Eugene V. Debs to Prison, 1918

Re:Anti-War Speech Sent Eugene V. Debs to Prison, 1918 by int_19h on Saturday November 26, 2022 @07:59PM (#33758847)

I'm Russian, and this is nonsense. The Civil War that followed is definitely recognized as very destructive and traumatic. But it doesn't mean that we don't remember the Attack of the Dead Men, the Brusilov Offensive, the Women's Death Batallions, the Brest Peace etc.

When it comes to politics, in particular, WW1 is remembered precisely because it led to a revolution, and it was very obvious and explicit in the revolutionaries' rhetoric; one of the most famous slogans was "штыки в землю", literally "bayonets into the ground".

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Re:Anti-War Speech Sent Eugene V. Debs to Prison, 1918 by AlbertCory on Saturday November 26, 2022 @08:10PM (#33758933)

Thanks. I'm not Russian, and if someone says WW1 is largely forgotten there, I'm doubtful, but I'm hardly in a position to argue.

It's mostly forgotten in the US, for that matter. I think the last living veteran of that war died recently. Peter Jackson's recent cleaning up of the movie footage for "They Shall Not Grow Old" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7905466/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1 was heart-rending.

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Re:Anti-War Speech Sent Eugene V. Debs to Prison, 1918 by thriftwy on Sunday November 27, 2022 @04:09AM (#33761578)

Brest Peace is a part of revolutionary events, and the rest is mostly remembered by tiny minority of Russian monarchists and forgotten by the rest.

Even I hear of Women's Death Batallions for the first time. Need to google.

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