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http://rt.com/news/158032-kherson-governor-hitler-liberator/
It continues to amaze me that so much of the left relies on RT.com. I
noticed a link to this article on Facebook just now. Reading it, I fully
expected evidence of some Svoboda type politician saying such thing.
(Btw, Kherson is familiar to some of you as the surname of many Jews but
it is spelled Gerson. I was friends with a guy named Steve Gerson. We
used to play pinball machines together 55 years ago.)
Anyhow, here's the governor calling Hitler a liberator:
>>Painting his version of the events further, he challenged history by
saying that “if you read history books, we have a number of
documentaries on this, then we see that he [Hitler] first of all put
forward a slogan of liberating people from the communist yoke, and
liberating people from the tyrant Stalin,” Odarchenko said, sparking
anger and outraged by the crowd.<<
In other words, he was not calling Hitler a liberator. Instead he was
saying that Hitler called himself a liberator. Anybody with a lick of
sense would have read the article and seen that it was pure bullshit, or
at least that the headline was a lie. I imagine that the person who
posted this to Facebook (who should have known better frankly) probably
didn't bother to get past the headline.
Yesterday I wrote about National Bolshevism. Isn't RT.com's cynical use
of a headline a symptom of the degraded standards of Russian political
life? Compare that to the "fascist" Kyiv Post that publishes articles
substantiating the claims that a pro-unity mob was responsible for the
Odessa disaster. And compare that to the Guardian article that refers to
a newspaper in the east being firebombed for simply publishing an
article skeptical of Kagarlitsky's beloved Donetsk commune.
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