Reminds me of a conference on East European history I went to in grad school. A very senior and politically incorrect figure in Polish history intoned that “Poles didn’t kill each other under Communism.” When everyone in the room pointed out that this simply wasn’t true, he amended his statement to “Poles didn’t kill each other on Russian levels.”
January 20th, 2013 at 3:25PM
Reminds me of a conference on East European history I went to in grad school. A very senior and politically incorrect figure in Polish history intoned that “Poles didn’t kill each other under Communism.” When everyone in the room pointed out that this simply wasn’t true, he amended his statement to “Poles didn’t kill each other on Russian levels.”