--- Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote:
> Chris:
>
> What's the opinion in Poland on the Nazi
> rehabilitation going on in the not-so-far-away
> Baltic
> States? (The monuments to the SS, hero-worship of
> the
> Balt SS units, etc.) I'm kind of amazed that only
> Israel and Russia seem to be noticing this. (Yes, I
> know, the Baltic States aren't exactly at the center
> of the world's geopolitical attention -- but
> rehabilitating the SS, one would think, would get
> someone's notice.)
>
>
> [WS:] I have not heard much about it, but this looks
> like a typical right
> wing strategy of bringing up highly divisive issues
> to enrage the public and
> divert attention from other issues. The "divide and
> conquer" strategy is
> universal, but the actual divisive issues are
> culture-specific: it is gay
> marriages in the US, and rehabilitation of the SS in
> Eastern Europe.
>
> Not long ago I had a telephone conversation with
> someone in Poland and asked
> him what all these weird issues (cf. the witch
> hunting of ex-Communist
> "collaborators") were all about. He replied that
> democracy is a good thing,
> but only for societies that are mature and civil,
> but otherwise it is a mere
> platform for demagogues to instigate gullible and
> ignorant public. I agreed
> with that assessment.
>
> Wojtek
>
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