The Fallen of World War II

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Recommends chrisdhoover · 2021-12 · on “Battle of the Bulge”

It is an odd claim, the largest. I just did a cursory search and found several notable atrocities with larger numbers. Most occurred from over several days to over several months. I guess an argument could be that specifies in a single day or in a single hour but that kind of specificity trivializes the scale of atrocities committed against Poles, Serbs, and Jews. Large scale massacres includes: Palmiry, Liepaja, Katyn, Bubanj, and Borki This video is widely viewed and worth the time [this video]

Recommends roveo · 2022-02 · on “Understanding the War in Ukraine”

Well, it's complicated. I think Putin's understanding of a "Nazi" is deeply connected to the Russian trauma of WWII that the West still doesn't get. Russians believe that due to the sheer number of lives lost, the USSR (and so Russia as its successor state) played _the_ central role in WWII. I encourage you to watch this video [this video] (the relevant parts start at about 4:40 and 9:40) I personally think that it makes no sense to talk about "who made the victory" because it was an allied effort and none of the allies could have done it alone. But at the same time, I think that westerners just don't get how personal and traumatic this was for the people of Russia. So, Putin is very sensitive to

Recommends zug_zug · 2023-09 · on “9/11 in Realtime”

There's something so emotional and compelling about the spectacle of shared tragedy (even smaller ones like oceangate). However there's always a reminder in the back of my mind that this sense of what makes our heart leap is very poorly correlated with what things ought to scare us. I don't know if it's possible to "Reprogram" one's heart to worry less about very high-visibility low risk things (like air travel, or terrorism in the US) and care more about statistically probable ones that SHOULD scare us (heart disease and such), but I wish it were. [this video] does a great job of giving a sense of what the proportions are of relative tragedies in terms of loss of life.

Cites tiatia · 2020-01 · on “How the CIA Overthrew Iran's Democracy in Four Days in 1953 (2019)”

"The last war USA "won" was WWII." Well, in Europa is was a German-Russian war. [this video]

Cites cowpig · 2021-04 · on “The war against money-laundering is being lost”

When I look at the cryptocurrency economy vs a regulated economy, it's almost night and day in terms of criminal activity. The crypto world is rife with scams, schemes, extortion, fraud, etc. Why do crinimals choose to use cryptocurrency if AML/KYC is so ineffective? I also think this is an extremely dangerous thing to be wrong about. Look at how international war is waged these days: it's primarily economic. Consider the carnage that defined human existence before WWII[1]. I would argue that a big part of the reason all of our lives are so violence-free now is that nation-states fight over abstractions for power rather than physical power. If it becomes impossible for countries to sanction

Cites newdude116 · 2021-08 · on “James Loewen, Author of ‘Lies My Teacher Told Me,’ Dies at 79”

Looks interesting but mainly about history. BTW, One lie the Americans are told in High Scholl is that the US won the 2nd World war [this video] (one icon represents 1000 people)

Cites supernova87a · 2021-11 · on “Underrated Reasons to Be Thankful”

There is really something to the idea that despite the daily news and political doomsaying that goes on every day, it's hard for people to remember or celebrate the long progression that we've experienced towards living in the most peaceful, materially prosperous, and positive trajectory time in the history of humanity. (I think there was a podcast on Hidden Brain about this. Also video like this [this video] ). It's really good to periodically think about how much we benefit from, say, the miracles of air conditioning, available infrastructure and cheap travel beyond your town, clean water and air, medicine, vaccines, public health -- and reset what you're grateful for. And stop making every lit

Cites olivermarks · 2023-02 · on “Two Jewish Kids in 1930s Cleveland Altered American Pop Culture”

70 million people died over six years in WWII, the vast majority Russians. 1930's USA has little bearing on European geopolitics and the creation of golden era superman comics. An animated data-driven documentary about war and peace, The Fallen of World War II looks at the human cost of the second World War and sizes up the numbers to other wars in history, including trends in recent conflicts . [this video]