Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 12/5/00 3:11:32 PM Eastern Standard Time, msmall@roanoke.infi.net writes: << Hmm. The elimination of Socialists and the like by the Nazis was certainly in the political and not cultural ethos, and the elimination of Jews and Cossacks by the Soviets would seem to be in the cultural and not the political ethos. >> True, as far as it goes. However, the "elimination" of political opponents by the Nazis began years before the systematic mass murders known as the Holocaust commenced, or probably was even conceived. Likewise, Russian, as opposed to Soviet persecution of minorities, particularly the Jews, began under the czars, probably centuries before Stalin came along. But what's the point of quibbling?(: Joe Sobel