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Lawfare Archive: The Coup in Myanmar https://t.co/ia0TmFJ0lk — PolitiTweet.org

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Evacuated kangaroos are your #BeastOfTheDay supplemental — PolitiTweet.org

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Glenn Greenwald, for example — PolitiTweet.org

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@NReibstein Thanks for seeking it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@NReibstein Also, unlike these other events, the Holodomor and the Holocaust were importantly interlinked. Stalin and Hitler learned a great deal from one another. — PolitiTweet.org

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@NReibstein actually killed many more people than were killed in the Holocaust. Are there important uniquenesses about the Holocaust. Yes. Are comparisons valid? Absolutely. — PolitiTweet.org

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@NReibstein I compare it to the Holocaust for the same reason the Armenian genocide and the Khmer Rouge and the Great Leap Forward bear comparison to the Holocaust: because in size and scale and monstrousness, it is worth comparing. Are they the same? The Great Leap Forward — PolitiTweet.org

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@anneapplebaum @benschwartz_ @dongrahamdc1 @AndreaChalupa All the more reason to discount all of them—except one, dear…. — PolitiTweet.org

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@benschwartz_ @anneapplebaum @dongrahamdc1 @AndreaChalupa at the end of the film. Can you imagine if the Times had won a Pulitzer in 1944 for reporting from Berlin that there was no gassing of Jews going on in camps in Poland? Can you imagine the Pulitzer Board standing by the award 50 years later? — PolitiTweet.org

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@benschwartz_ @anneapplebaum @dongrahamdc1 I worked for the Post editorial page at the time Anne and Don were doing this work. I was Anne’s next door neighbor on the editorial corridor. So we talked a lot about it. I was stunned by the Pulitzer Board’s handling of the matter and was glad that @AndreaChalupa mentioned it — PolitiTweet.org

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@benschwartz_ @anneapplebaum @dongrahamdc1 Hahahahaha! No no. I meant a late event in the Duranty saga. — PolitiTweet.org

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@NReibstein And the point is that this war is basically what happens when Holocaust denial succeeds for very large numbers of people over a very long period of time. — PolitiTweet.org

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@NReibstein The point is that six years before the Holocaust, Ukraine experienced one of the truly monstrous mass atrocities of the twentieth century. And unlike the Holocaust, it was to a remarkable degree successfully covered up to the point that most people have not heard of it. — PolitiTweet.org

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So yeah, it’s an important film. — PolitiTweet.org

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meant in Ukraine. And in important ways, it’s a fight the good guys have not won. Ask yourself this: when did you first hear of the Holocaust? Now ask yourself when you first heard of the Holodomor. — PolitiTweet.org

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The film covers the underlying events, not the modern day politics of the Pulitzers. But it made me think of what Anne and Don tried to do. Because in important ways, they were still fighting, in a small way, Gareth Jones’s fight to tell the truth about Stalinism and what it — PolitiTweet.org

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The Walter Duranty Pulitzer. Anne did a great deal of historical research on the degree of Duranty‘s corruption—work you can read about in “Red Famine.” The result was this truly shameful statement from the Pulitzer Board: https://t.co/7YUVpe3ZA9 — PolitiTweet.org

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One other point on this film: It will make you never take the Pulitzer Prizes seriously again. I actually had a front-row seat for a late episode in the Walter Duranty, when @anneapplebaum and @dongrahamdc1 undertook to have the Pulitzer Board consider retracting — PolitiTweet.org

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@AndreaChalupa I would love to talk with you about it on the @lawfareblog podcast. DM me if you are interested. — PolitiTweet.org

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@AndreaChalupa I know we have locked horns sometimes in the past. Out disagreements are as nothing in comparison to my admiration for this piece of work. — PolitiTweet.org

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As the kids say, trigger warning: there’s a half hour in the middle that’s as as hard to watch as anything I’ve seen. — PolitiTweet.org

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It is also, with a few minor flaws, a brilliantly told story of a largely forgotten hero, who was for the Holodomor what Jan Karski was for the Holocaust. It’s a gripping film, and it’s all basically true. — PolitiTweet.org

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By the way, if you haven’t watched “Mr. Jones,” it is a very good time to remedy that. By Agnieszka Holland and @AndreaChalupa, it is a very hard film to watch but it provides a terrific introduction to some critical history that lies beneath the current conflict. — PolitiTweet.org

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Interesting — PolitiTweet.org

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@aravosis I actually don’t. I think a policy of doing everything we can without risking a general war in the nuclear age is entirely sensible. And part of everything we can is being unstinting and unsparing about telling the truth. — PolitiTweet.org

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@IlvesToomas — PolitiTweet.org

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Sometimes life really is like this: https://t.co/QvSkVrPCmR — PolitiTweet.org

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I happen to have the foreign minister of Estonia at the time right here! Let’s see what he thinks… https://t.co/xeGKRIMEg7 — PolitiTweet.org

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People who actually have a lot of charisma don’t tend to need to announce it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@hoosierbluesman Correct — PolitiTweet.org