#Bloodlands

[books-to-add-to-your-tbr]

Title: Bloodlands

Author: Harold Schechter

Series or standalone: series

Publication year: 2018

Genres: nonfiction, crime, history, mystery, horror

Blurb: In 1860, a sloop drifted into New York Harbour, not a soul on board...just blood from cabin to deck. Looted coins led to Bowery thug Albert Hicks, the axe-slayer who turned his shipmates into chum. His crimes were absolutely fiendish; his execution was pure ballyhoo. It drew nearly ten thousand bloodthirsty sightseers to the city, including the enterprising showman P.T. Barnum. Refreshments were served as the most notorious and unrepentant mass murderer of the era made history as one of America's first celebrity killers.

[corpyburd]

Charlene McKenna as Captain Swing in Peaky Blinders S5

From Instagram

[smileysinmypocket]

[faitinicole]

I feel the Savage Lands series doesn’t get the hype it deserves.

The only thing that confuses me is her powers. There’s no rhyme or reason to them. Sometimes she can do certain things then sometimes not ..

But everything else about this series is amazing. Now on to the final book ..

[disruptiveempathy]

Our contemporary culture of commemoration takes for granted that memory prevents murder. If people died in such large numbers, it is tempting to think, they must have died for something of transcendent value, which can be revealed, developed, and preserved in the right sort of political remembrance. The transcendent then turns out to be the national. The millions of victims must have died so that the Soviet Union could win a Great Patriotic War, or America a good war. Europe had to learn its pacifist lesson, Poland had to have its legend of freedom, Ukraine had to have its heroes, Belarus had to prove its virtue, Jews had to fulfill a Zionist destiny. Yet all of these later rationalizations, though they convey important truths about national politics and national psychologies, have little to do with memory as such. The dead are remembered, but the dead do not remember. Someone else had the power, and someone else decided how they died. Later on, someone else still decides why. When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring more meaning.

—Timothy Snyder, from Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

[sage-green-kitchen]

History majors know that the stuff Timothy Snyder writes about has stayed with me more than anything else because it's so messed up

[metalhead-brainrot]

[Album of the day] Truth Corroded - Bloodlands

Adelaide, AUS // 2019 // Unique Leader Records

[Genres] death thrash, deathcore, tech death/thrash

[Thoughts] I find this album hard to classify, so it's a good thing I don't care to do so. This is good shit, listen to it. My favorite track is "The End of He Who Reigns." There's a lot of similar stuff on Unique Leader Records' page, and I can give personal recs if you ask for something specific (i.e. more deathcore, tech death, etc.).

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[From the band/label]

The phenomenal new album from Australian Death Thrashers TRUTH CORRODED.

Featuring guests Steph Carpenter (Deftones), Terrance Hobbs (Suffocation), Ryan Knight (The Black Dahlia Murder, Arsis), Kevin Talley (Dying Fetus, Chimaira)

[thegreatobbo2]

[no-known-cure]

The massive carnage of Poles, Ukrainians and Belarussians in WWII at the hands of both Hitler and Stalin remains one of the little-known aspects if the war in the West, thanks in part to decades of successful russian propaganda which the West buys wholesale

Civilian casualties in Europe in World war II

by Tartar666

[tvrundownusa]

tvrundown USA 2023.02.06

Monday, February 6th:

(streaming weekly): Vinland Saga (netflix), Trolley (netflix), Under the Vines (AcornTV, next 2 eps, season 2 finale), Bloodlands (AcornTV, irish crime thriller, season 2 opener, first 2 eps)

(hour 1): All American (theCW), Fantasy Island (FOX), The Neighborhood (CBS) /   / Bob Hearts Abishola (CBS), The Bachelor (ABC, 2hrs), America's Got Talent (NBC, 2hrs), Kids Baking Championship (FOOD)

(hour 2): All American: Homecoming (theCW), Alert: MPU (FOX), NCIS (CBS), The Bachelor (ABC, contd), America's Got Talent (NBC, contd), C.B. Strike (HBO, season 3 "Troubled Blood" opener)

(hour 3): NCIS: Hawai'i (CBS), The Good Doctor (ABC), Quantum Leap (NBC), The Watchful Eye (Freeform, regular timeslot), Independent Lens (PBS, "Outta the Muck", 90mins), History's Greatest of All Time (HIST, hosted by Peyton Manning)

(hour 4 - latenight):   The Daily Show (COM, guest host Chelsea Handler)

[rotzaprachim]

i think there's really complex but angry thoughts i have on the goysiche response to the shoah, and evolving 21st century responses to it, and how much scorn has been heaped on jewish directors, taika waititi and jonathan glazer specifically, who want to address the fucking fact that nazis were people. nazis were people. the thing is that they're derided as libs for it, but i think the reality is that what they want to talk about is to uncomfortable for us in world that wants to treat the shoah as a boxed-off morality play and nazis as wacky movie villains who were completely removed from society and the human condition. but the reality is that nazis were human, they came from a human society, and a very human group of humans and the entire society they came from murdered jews who they did not see as humans. waititi and glazer might have different lenses and film making styles but i do think their focus on nazism as society is significant.

[smileysinmypocket]

[historicity-was-already-taken]

last post of the night i promise

tbh i'm posting this to get my untangling of this political messiness written down clearly.

The Polish Home Army (the Armja Krajowa, or, AK) staged an Uprising in Warsaw in August 1944 as the Germans seemed to be fleeing West away from the front, and the Red Army approached the outskirts of the city. The Polish Communist underground (the Armja Ludowa, or AL) was also there, but they didn't have the contacts with the Polish Government-in-Exile that the AK did--plus the AL couldn't reveal themselves to the AK because the AK would have shot them.

So Stalin learns that the AK has staged an uprising, and instead of being like "Ok cool yes let's go help liberate Warsaw" he's like "lol no no no do nothing, put your weapons down, stop marching West, and let the Polish patriots and the Nazis murder each other because once I'm done with Nazis ima crush Polish nationalism and be in charge of Poland after the war."

And England was like "ummm we kind of joined this war after Germany violated Poland's borders; shouldn't we like, do something?" And Stalin was like "lol sit down Winston."

So the Germans call for re-enforcements while the Red Army is waiting for the Germans and Poles to destroy each other, massacre thousands of civilians, and burn Warsaw to the ground. Also some members of the AK shoot Jewish fighters who who'd managed to survive up until that point.

And then the Red Army didn't march in until January, 1945.

[disruptiveempathy]

To dismiss the Nazis or the Soviets as beyond human concern or historical understanding is to fall into their moral trap. The safer route is to realize that their motives for mass killing, however revolting to us, made sense to them. Heinrich Himmler said that it was good to see a hundred, or five hundred, or a thousand corpses lying side by side. What he meant was that to kill another person is a sacrifice of the purity of one’s own soul, and that making this sacrifice elevated the killer to a higher moral level. This was an expression of a certain kind of devotion. It was an instance, albeit an extreme one, of a Nazi value that is not entirely alien to us: the sacrifice of the individual in the name of the community. Hermann Göring said that his conscience was named Adolf Hitler. For Germans who accepted Hitler as their Leader, faith was very important. The object of their faith could hardly have been more poorly chosen, but their capacity for faith is undeniable. It was Gandhi who noted that evil depends upon good, in the sense that those who come together to commit evil deeds must be devoted one to the other and believe in their cause. Devotion and faith did not make the Germans good, but they do make them human. Like everyone else, they had access to ethical thinking, even if their own was dreadfully misguided.

—Timothy Snyder, from Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

[harri-etvane]

got the tracking notif for my copy of On Freedom this morning !!

[rosyjuly]

literally begging for journalists to start considering other people as experts on eastern europe apart from timothy snyder