Tuesday, May 03, 2005

Hollywood holocaust amnesia inexplicable

Speaking of Nazi prisoners: Hollywood, TV and book publishers still constantly mine and remine one of the 20th century's worst holocausts, that of the Jews under the Nazis. It was a terrible tragedy, and we should never forget.

But what about the other holocausts? Almost virtual silence on those of Stalin and Mao, and only one major movie feature (The Killing Fields) on the communist holocaust of Cambodia. The Stalin and Mao killings eclipse those of Hitler, but for some reason we are not supposed to remember, and writers seem to have not the slightest interest.

Here's some grist for the mill: Student Attacks Against Teachers: The Revolution of 1966 ... one aspect of Mao's holocaust.

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