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AP Exclusive: Memos show US hushed up Soviet crime.
NO SHIT.
Look, when Yahoo commenters are also saying no shit, I'm just saying. I could write a full paper off the top of my head on why THIS IS NOT NEWS.
Everyone knew that Stalin was an evil douchebag. See: Khrushchev, Secret Speech.
Everyone knew that Poland was fucked. See: Ribbentrop-Molotov; Non-aggression pact.
Everyone knew that the Germans needed stopping, and Russia had the men that we did not. See: demographics; Everyone Still Hates Germany From WWI
Everyone knew that we did not need to piss off the USSR more. See: Cuban Missile Crisis; "FLASH!"
Everyone knows that the government keeps secrets. See: ALL THOSE CLASSIFIED ARCHIVES.
It was not until well after WW2 that genocide was declared a Thing by the UN, so no one could do shit anyway and they still don't. See: United Nations Genocide Convention (featuring Swiss cheese definitions and enforcement measures!); the ridiculousness that is "reconciliation and justice" in the former Yugoslav states; Armenian genocide
The Cold War took precedence over all dead people. See: PKI genocide in Indonesia
I CAN GO ON. AND ALL I HAVE ARE 1.5 LOUSY BACHELOR'S DEGREES.
Hey, AP, why don't you dig up all the other Soviet crimes? Maybe an exclusive on why the sky is blue? Here, I'll give you an insider lead: Ukraine famine! Great Purges! Bolshevik Revolution! Gulag system! Biochemical weapon engineering! Mock trials! Hey, remember that time Stalin took out his entire officer corps? No? Maybe look into that, maybe? What about that time his wife committed suicide? Closing/destruction of the archives? Looting Memorial? All the crushed attempts at uprisings? All the semi-destroyed cultures? Yes/no/maybe?
you people s'possed to be professionals.
AP Exclusive: Memos show US hushed up Soviet crime.
NO SHIT.
Look, when Yahoo commenters are also saying no shit, I'm just saying. I could write a full paper off the top of my head on why THIS IS NOT NEWS.
Everyone knew that Stalin was an evil douchebag. See: Khrushchev, Secret Speech.
Everyone knew that Poland was fucked. See: Ribbentrop-Molotov; Non-aggression pact.
Everyone knew that the Germans needed stopping, and Russia had the men that we did not. See: demographics; Everyone Still Hates Germany From WWI
Everyone knew that we did not need to piss off the USSR more. See: Cuban Missile Crisis; "FLASH!"
Everyone knows that the government keeps secrets. See: ALL THOSE CLASSIFIED ARCHIVES.
It was not until well after WW2 that genocide was declared a Thing by the UN, so no one could do shit anyway and they still don't. See: United Nations Genocide Convention (featuring Swiss cheese definitions and enforcement measures!); the ridiculousness that is "reconciliation and justice" in the former Yugoslav states; Armenian genocide
The Cold War took precedence over all dead people. See: PKI genocide in Indonesia
I CAN GO ON. AND ALL I HAVE ARE 1.5 LOUSY BACHELOR'S DEGREES.
Hey, AP, why don't you dig up all the other Soviet crimes? Maybe an exclusive on why the sky is blue? Here, I'll give you an insider lead: Ukraine famine! Great Purges! Bolshevik Revolution! Gulag system! Biochemical weapon engineering! Mock trials! Hey, remember that time Stalin took out his entire officer corps? No? Maybe look into that, maybe? What about that time his wife committed suicide? Closing/destruction of the archives? Looting Memorial? All the crushed attempts at uprisings? All the semi-destroyed cultures? Yes/no/maybe?
you people s'possed to be professionals.