Umberto Eco - Ur Fascism

[Martin Dietze]

On Mon, 3 Jan 2022 at 22:38, Thomas Eckhardt via Pynchon-l <
pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:

> I know that Russia is evil, evil, evil, and that Putin is the latest
> reincarnation of Adolf Hitler.
>
Now it's getting silly.


> Still, it appears to me that not only the Russians might have a reason
> (in their case, 24 to 40 million reasons, according to Wikipedia) to
> oppose the glorification of Nazism and the Waffen-SS.
>
Here's what Wikipedia tells us. Don't forget to consider the rightmost
column:
Soviet Republic Population 1940 Military Dead Civilian Dead Total Deaths as
 % 1940 Pop.
Byelorussian SSR
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byelorussian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic>
9,050,000 620,000 1,670,000 2,290,000 25.3%
Ukrainian SSR
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic>
41,340,000 1,650,000 5,200,000 6,850,000 16.3% (B)
Latvian SSR
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic> 1,890,000
30,000 230,000 260,000 13.7%
Total USSR <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union> 194,090,000
10,700,000 15,900,000 26,600,000 13.7%
Armenian SSR
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic> 1,320,000
150,000 30,000 180,000 13.6%
Lithuanian SSR
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic>
2,930,000 25,000 350,000 375,000 12.7%
Russian SFSR
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic>
110,100,000 6,750,000 7,200,000 13,950,000 12.7% (A)

History is very seldomly black-white.