Cognitive Dissonance is Cognitivey: Ukraine Edition (Stalin, Bandera, Maidan and Russian separatism)

[Tommy_Carcetti]

3. "Drink to Stalin." I couldn't believe that.

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The thing about Maidan was that there was a stage in the square. (Yes, believe it or not, Maidan wasn't just a bunch of Right Sector types throwing bricks. There was actual public discourse there.)

They had speaker after speaker up on the stage. None of them said anything that could be considered anti-Semitic or otherwise in line with neo-Nazi ideology. None of them glorified Hitler. Not a single one.

And you know if they had said something of the sort, the RT types would be all on here exploiting the shit out of it. Much like they turned the recent incident of two-sided mob violence in Odessa into a one-sided unilateral "massacre" of "anti-Fascists" by "neo-Nazis."

But there was nothing of the sort. It just goes to show how much blatant propaganda there is out there, and how many gullible people buy into it.

I don't know if you've had a chance to read Timothy Snyder's piece in the New Republic but it raises those same historical figures as you've noted. It's an excellent piece:

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117692/fascism-returns-ukraine

Meanwhile, Robert Parry could shit on a piece of paper and compare it to neo-Nazism, and people would insist it's the gospel truth.