Yeah. It takes a long time to really get going, but then it’s a pretty amazing… essay? history? debunking? critique of propaganda? I’m not even sure how to describe it.
To this day, most Russians think World War II was something that happened primarily in their country and the battles everywhere else in the world were a sideshow.
more than 3⁄4 of German casualties were on the Eastern Front
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In August 1943, for instance, in the hilly countryside around the city of Kursk (about 200 miles south of Moscow), the German and Soviet armies collided in an uncontrolled slaughter: more than four million men and thousands of tanks desperately maneuvered through miles of densely packed minefields and horizon-filling networks of artillery fire. It may have been the single largest battle fought in human history, and it ended—like all the battles on the eastern front—in a draw.
Politics/religion:
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology, Graeber 2004 (excerpts)
“A Genome-Wide Analysis of Liberal and Conservative Political Attitudes”, Hatemi et al 2011 (excerpts)
“Growing Up Sexually in Europe”
“Losing the War” (WWII in propaganda vs as experienced)
Basil Zaharoff
“A Filthy History: When New Yorkers Lived Knee-Deep in Trash”
“Bin Laden raid reveals ‘state failure’: Leaked report offers scathing assessment of how al-Qaeda chief was able to evade detection” (and if you believe that...)
“New New Fatherhood in the Inner City: A new book reveals how poor urban dads are reversing gender roles in caring for their children, but not being providers”
Higher education is signaling
“‘Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book’: The new warrior cop is out of control”
“U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement”
“What Can the Middle East Learn From What’s Happening in Qatar?”
“Xhosa cattle-killing movement and famine (1854-1858)”
Psychology:
“A preliminary report of kayak-angst among the Eskimo of West Greenland: a study in sensory deprivation”, Gussow 1963
“Do Rational People Exist?”
“Social Psychology Is A Flamethrower”
“Hikikomori as a Gendered Issue: Analysis on the discourse of acute social withdrawal in contemporary Japan”, Dziesinski 2004 (excerpts)
“Drugs and the Meaning of Life”, Sam Harris
“Fooled twice, shame on who? Problems with Mechanical Turk study samples, part 2”
training murder investigations:
Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death
“1930s: Nutshell studies of unexplained death”
Death in Diorama
“These Gruesome Dollhouse Death Scenes Helped Create Forensic Science”
Losing the War is incredible. Here’s an equally incredible flash animation of the Eastern Front, to counter it’s American bias.
Yeah. It takes a long time to really get going, but then it’s a pretty amazing… essay? history? debunking? critique of propaganda? I’m not even sure how to describe it.
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