--- Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote: Surely there is a great deal of difference between being ordered by a government (such as the US government) to go to war (in Iraq or elsewhere) and volunteering to commit a pogrom, unless you are saying that organizers of a pogrom, like a government, had the power to present the rest with a choice to commit a pogrom or face at least potentially severe penalties. Once you are in the military, desertion and other acts of refusal carry penalties. Did refusing to participate in a pogrom?
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I was thinking more of one of Woj's favorite bugbears, not holding people who are part of some underpriviliged group (urban blacks in the contemporary US, peasants in Russia in 1905) responsible for their actions.
Speaking of the 1905 pogroms, this month's issue of Rolling Stone Russia has an interview with Stalin's seemingly immortal cartoonist, the guy that did the famous caractures of Hitler etc. He describes how he was almost killed in the 1905 pogrom. HE'S THAT OLD.
Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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