Dingo the Dissident

THE BLOG OF DISQUIET : Qweir Notions, an uncommonplace-book from the Armpit of Diogenes, binge-thinker jottings since 2008 .

Sunday, 22 January 2023

The latest 'misery memoir'

is a film from Steven Spielberg,
who complains of anti-semitism
in Arizona when he was young.

His grandparents were Ukrainian Jews.

As the Germans were starting their 'elimination' of 2½ million Jews in Ukraine, another 1½ million were evacuated by Stalin to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan on terrible train journeys that could take over a month
like those to the Gulag. 

Many died on the way. 
Many more died on arrival. The station at Almaty was littered with bodies...


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