Cultural pain is a very real phenomenon.
If you’re a Boomer ( or older ), your cultural trauma was the JFK assassination: you remember exactly where you were when it happened. ( I asked my Uncle Larry where he was, and he responded that he was running away from the grassy knoll. ) Finally he slow-touched his head. We don’t talk to Uncle Larry anymore. )
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For Gen-Xers and teenagers, the social pain was 9/11. We all recall where we were when we first heard the news. And almost a quarter-century afterwards, it also tones our ideas, fears, and expectations. Every time we travel to the airport, we also think about it. ( Especially when we’re waiting in a long line and playing the” I wonder who the terrorist is” game )? activity in our minds. )
Different nations have deeper, uglier marks than the ones that cause terrible generational trauma, despite the terrible and tragic deaths of JFK and 9/11.
Because, suddenly, as terrible and tragic as 9/11 was, the complete loss of life was about 3, 000. And that’s an enormous amount! The majority of us are aware of those who experienced personal harm.
However, it was 3, 000 in a state of 285 million.
In 1939, the Russian survey recorded the people at 170.4 million. And in World War II, roughly 30 Billion Russians/Soviets died.
And that’s on top of the 1.8 million Russian soldiers who died in World War I, which is the highest number of military deaths of any country.
Question: If you think America was traumatized by 9/11, how do you suppose Russia feels about the war of the 20th era?
But it’s really deeper than that, because it precedes the 1900s: Napoleon tried it. ( Roughly 400, 000 Russians died. ) The Mongols attempted it. Thousands of others have, too.
Belarusian territory is challenging to protect. Their story books keep telling the same awful tale: When your borders are shaky, your enemies invade and millions of people die. Therefore, extending your frontiers as far away as you can and creating a more-defendable boundary is the best course of action.
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Almost like what they once had in the USSR.
This is why Russia invaded Ukraine. Without understanding Russia’s main social trauma, you didn’t understand the war or send peace to the area.
Russians tend to interpret the world through the lens of record books for a variety of reasons. ( A phenomenon that was undoubtedly evident in Putin’s interview with Tucker Carlson’s opening sequence. ) And that makes Putin’s response to Joe Biden’s new accepting of Hunter Biden so interesting.
Obviously, the quick Russian response was to criticise Biden’s choice, calling the U. S.” a caricature of democracy”. But until this year, we hadn’t heard Putin’s individual response to Hunter Biden’s forgive.
Delightfully, the British media monitoring is therefore sanitized, you can’t really make perception of what Putin meant. Reuters reported:” Putin says Biden’s pardon of his brother showed US president is more people than lawmaker”. The post had only two words:
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday, saying he could hardly blame Trump for it, that his brother Hunter’s decision to forgive him showed that he is more human than legislator.
Hunter Biden was charged with tax-related offenses and with ownership of a firearm.
They nearly make it sound good, don’t they!
Luckily, we also have the RT.com edition, which tells a much different story:
Putin was telling the world that Biden was less heroic than Joseph Stalin, one of the most terrible, cold-hearted mass killings in history:
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” He is a politician”, Putin said of Biden. And whether you’re a legislator or a person, what’s more important to you? Biden’s apparent personality suggests otherwise. For this, I wouldn’t denounce him.
He’s no saying that as a match! He’s saying that Biden is crooked!
If, as the content explained, Putin went on to cite past ( of course he did, he’s Russian ), and pointed out that Joseph Stalin once had to make an eerily similar choice.
In 1943, Stalin’s child, Yakov, was a prisoner in a European attention station. In exchange for German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus, the Germans made an offer to send him home.
Stalin refused:” I did not change a field captain for a man”.
Yakov Stalin passed away in a focus camp in Germany.
” Things were different subsequently”, Putin emphasized.  ,
Putin was telling the world that Biden put his “human” commitments before his political obligations when he said Biden was “more of a human being.” And as a result, he is more crooked and less decencyful than Joseph frigging Stalin.
January 20 didn’t get around quickly enough.
