Did Czechs, not Germans, destroy Woodrow Wilson statue?
source: http://www.parapolitical.com/post/11079784681#ixzz1azuNdUUx
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In the United States the Czech Republic is known for two things: a distrust of vowels and a history of victimization by the Third Reich. The latter of these is weirdly reinforced at every opportunity by the Czechs themselves, despite a wartime history of collaboration only slightly more innocent than those of her neighbors. Writing in the Czech-Slovak Foreign Magazine last year, Dr. Muriel Blave of Austria’s Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History noted that the view Czechs have of their own history is guided by “instrumentalized nationalism.”
Czech society still feels like a genuine victim and as a resistant … and in no way as a co-perpetrator or silent observer who chose not to take action out of fear, selfishness or cowardice. The explanation I would advance here is that the Holocaust history and collective memory is best left unresearched so as not to endanger what we could coin the Czech “victimization narrative” of the Second World War.
Recently we received a press release proudly announcing that the American Friends of the Czech Republic (AFoCR) would – this week - be unveiling a reconstruction of a statue of Woodrow Wilson that once stood in front of the Prague Railway Station and was, as the release informed us, “destroyed by the Nazis.” This prompted us to inquire of AFoCR’s press agency as to the details of that destruction, details which were oddly lacking. Our several inquiries received prompt and courteous replies, however, only pointed us to media reports that seemed to regurgitate AFoCR’s press release.
Read more: http://www.parapolitical.com/post/11079784681#ixzz1azuNdUUx
Czech society still feels like a genuine victim and as a resistant … and in no way as a co-perpetrator or silent observer who chose not to take action out of fear, selfishness or cowardice. The explanation I would advance here is that the Holocaust history and collective memory is best left unresearched so as not to endanger what we could coin the Czech “victimization narrative” of the Second World War.
Recently we received a press release proudly announcing that the American Friends of the Czech Republic (AFoCR) would – this week - be unveiling a reconstruction of a statue of Woodrow Wilson that once stood in front of the Prague Railway Station and was, as the release informed us, “destroyed by the Nazis.” This prompted us to inquire of AFoCR’s press agency as to the details of that destruction, details which were oddly lacking. Our several inquiries received prompt and courteous replies, however, only pointed us to media reports that seemed to regurgitate AFoCR’s press release.
Read more: http://www.parapolitical.com/post/11079784681#ixzz1azuNdUUx
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trut
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if only britain and france wouldn't have demanded such harsh reparations after WW1, there wouldn't have been a ww2 against germany.
- 7 months ago
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trut
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jahbini
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OMG!
I love that empty phrase:
"silent observer who chose not to take action out of fear, selfishness or cowardice"Show me the PLAN, Stan if you want followers who take action. Otherwise you are simply beating the drum of fear.
The Czechs, Germans, and Gott knows who else have been beating the drums of fear lately.
I no longer wish to follow.
- 7 months ago
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jahbini
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