The New York Review of Books (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Timothy Snyder Václav Klaus ( supportvaclavklaus.wordpress.com ) The Czech Republic is a country where everything seems to work, except for the political system. I once lived here, but hadn’t returned for eleven years. Almost everything looks better than it did in 1998, and almost everything looked better in 1998 than it did in 1989, the year of the Velvet Revolution. The...
Evolving Thoughts (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
This is a disturbing essay by Timothy Snyder in the New York Review of Books, republished in Eurozine. It suggests that we do not remember the entirety of the Holocaust in German and Soviet hands. [H/T 3 Quarks Daily] Posted in History, Politics, Race and politics
Randy McDonald's Livejournal (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
3 Quarks Daily always links to great material. The first link heads to Timothy Snyder's Eurozine article which argues that Europe's collective memory has failed to recognize that the mid-20th century's worst atrocities, Nazi or Soviet, occurred in the space stretching from Poland to Latvia to Ukraine. The second link goes to a Carlo Strenger's Comment is Free post arguing that religion...
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
... and there were survivors because Auschwitz was a labour camp as well as a death factory. more from Timothy Snyder at Eurozine here .
