The Grapes of Wrath was banned in the USSR because showed poor people had cars

Re:The Grapes of Wrath was banned in the USSR because showed... by cmrdporcupine on Thursday January 19, 2023 @10:47PM (#34448987)

You talk about a whole country like it's a single, morally culpable, person? And those 26 million dead, they all should suffer because Stalin signed the pact with Hitler?

So you can wave away massive death -- justified? And all conversation about the matter must be redirected to this allocation of blame. "Mommy, Johnny hit me first."

I think you need to give your head a shake. The way you're talking about war and death, it's like you don't really grasp the level of tragedy at all.

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Re:The Grapes of Wrath was banned in the USSR because showed... by TMWNN on Friday January 20, 2023 @01:16AM (#34449785)

>And those 26 million dead, they all should suffer because Stalin signed the pact with Hitler?

Those 26 million dead suffered because Stalin signed the pact with Hitler.

>So you can wave away massive death -- justified?

Not at all, and I have never given any indication that I think so.

Those 26 million dead also shouldn't ever be cited by Soviets, or apologists for same, as some sort of hard-earned virtue or proof of nobility, yet they have been used for precisely such purposes for 80 years and counting. To return to my earlier analogy, that'd be like the criminal who survives the attack by his coplotter now calling himself a hero for having killed the attacker.

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