Never Again

[timelets]

In the middle of Europe in the middle of the twentieth century, the Nazi and Soviet regimes murdered some fourteen million people. The place where all of the victims died, the bloodlands, extends from central Poland to western Russia, through Ukraine, Belarus, and the Baltic States. During the consolidation of National Socialism and Stalinism (1933-1938), the joint German-Soviet occupation of Poland (1939-1941), and then the German-Soviet war (1941-1945), mass violence of a sort never before seen in history was visited upon this region. The victims were chiefly Jews, Belarusians, Ukrainians, Poles, Russians, and Balts, the peoples native to these lands. The fourteen million were murdered over the course of only twelve years, between 1933 and 1945, while both Hitler and Stalin were in power. Though their homelands became battlefields midway through this period, these people were all victims of murderous policy rather than casualties of war. The Second World War was the most lethal conflict in history, and about half of the soldiers who perished on all of its battlefields all the world over died here, in this same region, in the bloodlands. Yet not a single one of the fourteen million murdered was a soldier on active duty. Most were women, children, and the aged; none were bearing weapons; many had been stripped of their possessions, including their clothes.”

--- Timothy Snyder. “Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin.”

Comments

[garret_lab]

Профессор Снайдер в своих многочисленных публичных лекциях (они доступны на Ютубе) вполне убедительно показывает, что предпосылки для сценария "we will see it again", аналогичные ситуации в Европе начала 20 века, в данный момент имеются, и угроза практической реализации этого сценария вполне реальна.

[timelets]

Распад империй всегда сопровождался войнами и длительными этническими конфликтами. Снайдер - историк, поэтому он понимает, что распад советской империи еще не закончился, и надо быть готовым к возможным обострениям.