[lbo-talk] Re: Vive La France! - Kremlin headache, Kremlin opportunity

Peter Lavelle untimely_thoughts at yahoo.com
Mon May 30 13:55:46 PDT 2005


I, of course, liked Pankratov's eXile piece. But at the same time, my mission is to try to understand the present and future. Being a former academic historian, I know we can debate about the meaning of the past for decades - even generations - that is the nature of history. Sadly, on this list, history is often a checklist of items without meaning or context (or even reasonable intellectual reflection).

The peoples of the Baltic states were treated very badly by the Soviet Union and the WEST. But so were the Russian people during the Soviet period. I am disappointed that nations are all too often tied to political systems and nightmarish ideologies - too many very average and ordinary people are lost in the process.

The French vote, to my mind, is an important start to reconsider the teleology of European history - maybe history itself.

--- Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- Peter Lavelle <untimely_thoughts at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > Last month the Kremlin wanted to engage all of
> > Europe
> > moving forward, with the Baltic states being their
> > usual pain in the lower backside.
>
> Did you see Pankratov's eXile piece on the Baltics
> in
> the last issue? (Their website's down and I can't
> link
> to it -- maybe hacked by an outraged Balt!?) "In the
> wake of the acrimony over the 'occupation,' Moscow's
> real mistake was inviting these little Nazi stooges
> in
> the first place." "How do you spell 'Balt'?
> 'L-o-s-e-r'." Or something like that. I must say I
> enjoyed reading it in a mean-spirited sort of way I
> probably shouldn't have enjoyed.
>
> Nu, zayats, pogodi!
>
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