this is an interesting poking-at of the evolution of a historical reference point over time--possibly the single most important reference point for Americans since 1945https://twitter.com/kilovh/status/1211088661636419584 …
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Yes, we can read (and perhaps forget) firsthand accounts; but few will retain them, fewer will learn much of their original context, and no one living will have the consequences etched in their bones But the first generation all /lived/ it
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The True Holocaust--the Holocaust of this world--lived with the generation that experienced it or saw it in the wild. They are almost passed now, and no museum will tell the story with fidelity. So with all things.
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This is one of the reasons why I have long thought some parts of the Eastern Bloc were able to rejoin the humanity while others are beyond hope. When the USSR fell, no Russian person knew life without Communism, but some Poles and Estonians did.
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Not quite. Communism lasted 74 years in Russia, long enough to make the old joke come true: "Where were you born?" "Saint Petersburg." "Where did you grow up?" "Petrograd." "Where do you live now?" "Leningrad." "Where do you wish to die?" "Saint Petersburg."
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New term, love it! I always thought of it as the way you go from 9/11 Never Forget to "that thing with the boat and the spanish" in the space of two grandpas
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