I wanted to write about the Latvian documentary called The Soviet Story, inspired by a magazine article I read a few weeks ago. Of course I have searched for the movie and seen it. The critical view I read, was not at all reasonable, on the contrary, speculations were made that the film could be an exaggeration of the truth. I remember having met a lot of opinions in a certain matter discussed in the documentary, and I was intrigued by the lack of data. In time, I completely forgot. It was about the famine provoked in Ukraine by Stalin's troops, in order to keep the country in the Soviet Union. The documentary shows the period when Stalin was Hitler's ally in the Second World War. A fact nobody seems to care anymore about. The Soviets were always better than the Nazis. This is the general idea. Of course, there are still Nazi type organizations, supported or tolerated by the local regime, be it in USA, Russian Federation or other "democratic" country. Leading to another aspect. You know, all the important words we use in science or in politics are Greek of Latin, which has also a Greek ascendance, if not even older one, Sanskrit. But let's take the demos meaning "people" and kratos meaning "power" in the word "democracy", which is one of the most misleading words used in all the … [Read more...]