tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-549963549429593969.post4249935766763100637..comments2024-01-20T06:51:58.729-08:00Comments on Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded: September 1, 1939John Guzlowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13052735138993479204noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-549963549429593969.post-65878987766994932552008-11-15T17:04:00.000-08:002008-11-15T17:04:00.000-08:00Thanks Steve. Urkat--MattThanks Steve. Urkat--MattUrkathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17086121300436012432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-549963549429593969.post-43858195598373587012008-10-24T09:20:00.000-07:002008-10-24T09:20:00.000-07:00Urkat,Sadly enough, even more disturbing pictures ...Urkat,<BR/>Sadly enough, even more disturbing pictures can be found if you google photos of the Babi yar massacre.I think these pictures are very important, a key element to understanding the second world war, and why the Soviet Union was the way it was for so long. <BR/><BR/>Stalin certainly wasnt a good guy by any means, he was probably the closest, pure definition to <BR/>"necesarry evil" that we will ever see in our lives, but you begin to understand the Soviets rage when you see what Eastern Europe was subjected to. I really think the Eastern europe had it far worse than the western Europeans did.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16394056957171485464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-549963549429593969.post-56163265092614462442008-10-08T04:59:00.000-07:002008-10-08T04:59:00.000-07:00John, When I look at that picture my first instinc...John, When I look at that picture my first instinct is to say to myself: "Tell me that picture isn't really what it looks like and that guard isn't really doing what I think he's doing." I think we would like to change history if we could and yet, I realize that if I were living in that time and place, that particular field would have been one of the last places I would have wanted to be. And yet it was a place someone needed to be to prevent what was happening.<BR/><BR/>Mr Langa, I understand there has been tremendous suffering in your country. India has such a rich culture and history that I wish more people would embrace it and learn to appreciate all it has to offer. Most of those I have met from India have been intelligent and good hearted people. I think we need to strengthen our ties with India and come together to help one another.Urkathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17086121300436012432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-549963549429593969.post-77444076598758204502008-10-02T21:58:00.000-07:002008-10-02T21:58:00.000-07:00To Mr. JOHN GUZLOWSKIIn India, too, there are thou...To Mr. JOHN GUZLOWSKI<BR/><BR/>In India, too, there are thousands of families who had been displaced in 1947 at the time of independence from Britishers and partition of the country into India and Pakistan. The memories of unspeakable suffering are still roaming in their minds.<BR/><BR/>Naval LangaNAVAL LANGAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12954455340860119085noreply@blogger.com