Cognitive Dissonance is Cognitivey: Ukraine Edition (Stalin, Bandera, Maidan and Russian separatism)

[Igel]

2. Nobody likes cognitive dissonance.

It causes one to either be confused and annoyed, or to revise one's beliefs and views.

novosti.dn.ua showed a very nice clip of a speaker on May 9, praising Russia and asking them to drink to Russia--drink to Stalin.

After all, Russia lost over 20 million in WWII. That's what they say.

They used to say the USSR lost 20 million. But then they sort of forgot that there was anybody else except Russia in the USSR.

Ukraine lost over 6 million. Of those, around 5 million were Slavs--Ukrainian citizens other than Jews. That leaves around 14 million lost by the rest of the USSR.

Russia was over 4 times larger than Ukraine. If all the other Soviet republics lost 0 people, then Russia, to keep up with Ukraine, would have lost 16 million.

Belorussia, however, also sustained heavy losses. Russia, for all its boasting of victimization, was #3 when you adjust for population. To maximize victimization, it's whitewashed Ukraine and Belorussia out of WWII history--Belorussia was where the Russian Red Army may have crossed, Ukraine had enemies and fascists everywhere, but only Russia was truly against fascism.