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One of those things that should be taught in schools but never are


I find it ridiculous that this is the first time that I have heard about this atrocity. If I hadn't stumbled upon this documentary on a suggestion, I'd never have known. We are constantly being bombarded by one and the same story - that of Hitler's Germany, over and over again. Like what he did accounts for all the evil done in the world and its past, present, and the near future, and somehow makes all the other Leopolds insignificant. One ugly history lesson used as a smoke screen for all the others. I'm talking about all the freedom America is bringing around the globe, along with NATO.
Gods damn it. What is wrong with our teachers, our histories, our media, our society that never tells us about the things as they were, but as they presume we need to hear, or as they need us to hear as. Why must I know precisely what Lady Gaga ate for breakfast, but not something that might make me think?
And gods know what else is being suppressed into oblivion.
You could try to be like Julian Assange, but you'll end up as he. They can't hang him or electrocute him for being a commie or a nazi, these are modern times. One needs to modernize one's frames. So he'll go stand a trial for some reason or the other, and be locked away, until 'poor health' takes him in a decade's time.
By then, Justin Bieber will have become a hopeless drunk, and will have started snorting coke off of vertically challenged people's heads, no one would care about the has-been Assange, and then he can literally become a 'has-been'.

How many years should we wait for a striking documentary on British colonialism, French and one on the modern American empire?
A decade, 50y, a century? Two?
Have we really the time?
Will that even cause a change?
Will anyone be watching?

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I absolutely agree with you. The first question that popped in my mind after watching this was "How the Hell we didn't learn this at school?" Even worse. The sole concept of colonization was quite vague to me all until I started my studies, where luckily, or unfortunately, we deal with the issue of colonization a lot, so gradually we come to realize what colonization really was, and still is, and how cruel the white man's "civilized" culture really is. History books never taught us these stuffs. Colonization was merely run through, the problem of slavery also, I mean, we do understand that there is such thing as a slavery and that it is very wrong, but we don't know the core of all that. Historians just lead us straight to the bad Nazis, crazy Hitler, and magnificent Allies, the saviours of the mankind! And even that is a lie.

And so it is. USA keeps bringing "peace" by the means of wars, bombs, and death. They keep teaching civilization in a good old-fashioned manner that never failed. Will it ever stop?

I'm sure you've at least heard about it, if not already watched it: The Weight of Chains. It is on modern colonization of USA and its ways, how they manipulated and by manipulation and Merciful Angel got what they wanted. Also, I recommend The Soviet Story, a very good documentary on Communism in Soviet Union, on Hitler's and Stalin's comradeship, similarities between Communism and Nazism, and once again all those things we haven't been taught at school.

Pozdrav! :)

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