Another in the continuing series of “images that Rosewind used to host on Discord”
These are very precious to me as they were created as a gift for @gauzyfruitcake and inspired by their AMAZING fic, Back in the CR
If you have read it, JUST DO IT! If you’ve started, IT’S NOW COMPLETE!!!
Below are “in progress shots”—the single (the Beatles, Back in the USSR) is original and nothing was harmed/damaged in the creation of this artwork
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Holocaust (and culture appropriation)
(TW: holocaust, death camps, sexual assaults, rape, industrial murder. I will put the graphic shit undercut. Include children death and human experiments).
Sometimes I think about how fucked up it is that for most non-jews (and some jews) "The Holocaust" is Anne Frank and Auschwitz "where they killed people".
I think about the fucking, the goddamn AUDACITY some people have to take our trauma and use it as a tool. As a lesson.
People that for them the holocaust is nothing but a story, a bunch of facts, probably as aware of it as they're aware of the crusaders.
(Once upon a time, in a far away land, there were Troubles)
People who didn't hear about it as children, who didn't grew up with six million and one-and-a-half million and yellow stars and quiet ceremony and Yizkor (remember).
That.
Would look at a pile of hats and bones and wigs and hair and make it about them.
But also
Sometimes I think about how wild it is, that this looks so horrific to them.
(And they never heard about half of it.)
Like.
Dear.
Deary.
We are used to death. We are so used to being murdered, and loosing loved ones by hate, that half of our culture is basically based on it.
I think about how non-jews keep talking about the holocaust, like it's a clean cut, like it's a thing that was, like it's that's all that was - there were people hiding, and there were gas chambers, and that's it.
And I remember being a kid (maybe 10 yo?) reading a kid/ya book that was an autobiography, and I remember the writer (who was a young teen at the time, and pretended to be a Christian German) wrote about someone came into the shower and touched him. (Writer) Panicked, and turned around - and then the other man asked him "wait- are you jewish?"
As a kid, I remember that this is all that was in it.
As an adult, I remember that scene, sometimes. And I can have a pretty clear idea on why the older man didn't tell about the kid.
I remember, several years ago, reading about a therapy group for holocaust survivors that were sexually assaulted.
I remember reading about an old lady, that (70 years later) told about what happened to her when she hide away with her sister, (I think they were two, or three girls?) she was sixteen, or maybe fourteen. I remember
"I did it so they'll share their food with us".
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I think about people talking about the "death camp" Auschwitz, and how someone said (those who went there, were the lucky ones. When the newbies asked what happened, where are their families? We just pointed at the burning chimneys of Birkenau ,and the smoke.)
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I remember the HUNDREDS who died once the camps were "freed", because they didn't know the dangers of eating two pieces of bread after a long period of starving.
I remember the massive Jewish community of Poland that was just. Erased. 99% of 3 million population pre-war. Whole communities we only remember and mention as the community's name (and even that is a very long list.)
I remember how people remember it as "German jews" (and some Poland) - but it's not. My grandma had cousins in Debretsen, Hungary. And it's Ukraine and France and Morocco and Greece and Lybia and Lithuania and Latvia and almost everywhere in Europe and North Africa
(except for Denmark. we love Denmark. My grandad's step-grandma survived there. She immigrated to her family in Israel after that.)
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Idk if Goyim ever heard about Mangele. I wonder, how many of them heard during their childhood about:
The eye experiments, where he injected serums in people's (living) eyes, to see what would happen?
His obsession about twins. The toddlers that got their back skinned, then stitched together in "to see what will happen".
(They died after four days of misery.)
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So, a bit about Mykola Leontovych. He's a Ukrainian composer, conductor, ethnomusicologist and teacher. His the most famous song is "Shchedryk" (ua: Щедрик). "Carol of the Bells" was based on this song. So, back to the composer.
23 January 1921, he was at his dad's in village Markivka (ua: Марківка), where he was killed by Cheka's (All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage under the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR) agent Afanasy Grishchenko in the morning. The Cheka's agent robbed them and shot the composer. The report text was made public only in nineties, from which we know the name of the agent.
Mykola Leontovych wasn't the first and wasn't the last who was killed by soviet regime, but many of them were claimed as "russian" people
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I think the discourse norm I cherish the most is the ability to disagree fervently and intensely with someone about something we both care a lot about and come out the other side as friends (or at least mutuals lol).
It's deeply unfortunate to me that this has become an almost exclusively liberal norm, since, like, you should read what Trotsky and Lenin used to say about each other before they started ending up on the same side of things.
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